Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
June 1999 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in June 1999, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in June 1999
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st June 1999Which piece of apparatus should be used to measure the temperature of a liquid in an experiment?
- 2nd June 1999In the same text, is the sentence "There is nothing more thrilling than floating silently above the countryside" a fact or an opinion?
- 3rd June 1999Find and copy one word from 'the tide dragged its heavy silver chain across the sand' that gives the tide a human or animal-like quality.
- 4th June 1999Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The wind whispered through the willow'?
- 5th June 1999Add the missing apostrophe: The three teachers offices were being redecorated. (There are three teachers, each with their own office.)
- 6th June 1999Add a semicolon in the correct place: The bus was late the queue grew longer by the minute.
- 7th June 1999Explain why a poet might choose soft, hissing sounds, sibilance, to describe a fox moving at night, rather than harsh, hard sounds.
- 8th June 1999A magazine article about volcanoes is broken into sections titled 'How volcanoes form', 'Famous eruptions' and 'Living near a volcano'. What are these called, and what is their purpose?
- 9th June 1999Write down the coordinates of the point 3 units to the left of the origin and 5 units up.
- 10th June 1999A phone contract costs 18.50 pounds per month for 24 months, plus an upfront cost of 49 pounds. Work out the total cost of the contract.
- 11th June 1999Convert the recurring decimal 0.3636... (where the digits 36 recur) to a fraction in its simplest form.
- 12th June 1999Solve 3(2x - 1) = x + 17.
- 13th June 1999Describe the locus of points that are equidistant from two fixed points, A and B.
- 14th June 1999Factorise x^2 - 9x + 20.
- 15th June 1999Expand and simplify (2x - 3)(x + 4).
- 16th June 1999A car's value depreciates from 18,000 pounds to 14,400 pounds in one year. Work out the percentage decrease.
- 17th June 1999Work out 9 x 7.
- 18th June 1999A doctor records that a foetus is 38 weeks old. Given that human gestation lasts approximately 40 weeks, state approximately how many weeks of pregnancy remain.
- 19th June 1999A student adds a piece of unknown grey solid to dilute acid and no bubbles are produced, even after several minutes. Suggest whether the solid is a metal or a non-metal, and explain your reasoning.
- 20th June 1999State whether the north pole of one bar magnet placed near the north pole of a second bar magnet will attract or repel.
- 21st June 1999A solution has pH 10. State whether it is acidic, neutral or alkaline.
- 22nd June 1999A diver swims from the surface down to a depth of 10 m in a swimming pool. State how the water pressure on her body changes as she swims deeper, and give a reason.
- 23rd June 1999Name the gas needed by the body for aerobic respiration to take place.
- 24th June 1999A student investigates how the mass of five different metal samples affects their volume, with mass as a continuous numerical variable. State whether a bar chart or a line graph is the more appropriate way to display these results.
- 25th June 1999Which word means the same as "exhausted" in a sentence describing tired climbers: "drained", "energetic", "cheerful" or "restless"?
- 26th June 1999A biography states that a person 'taught herself to read at six using her grandfather's newspapers, and published her first book by twenty.' What can a reader infer about this person's character from these facts?
- 27th June 1999A travel brochure and a science textbook both describe coral reefs. Which is more likely to use exaggerated, emotive language, and why?
- 28th June 1999A leaflet states 'You could help save a hundred bottles a year.' Which word directly addresses the reader?
- 29th June 1999Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The rain fell steadily.'
- 30th June 1999Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for "the suitcase on the platform."