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December 1999 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day

Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in December 1999, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.

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December 1999

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 7-8

Every sheet in December 1999

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st December 1999Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The fog rolled in from the sea.'
  2. 2nd December 1999A character 'checked her watch for the third time in a minute and sighed.' What does this suggest about how she is feeling?
  3. 3rd December 1999Which word class is 'cautiously' in the sentence 'She cautiously ran her glove along the rusted rail'?
  4. 4th December 1999A question asks you to "compare how the two poets present the sea." What is the best way to structure your answer?
  5. 5th December 1999Give one example of emotive language a writer might use to persuade pupils that reading is enjoyable rather than a chore.
  6. 6th December 1999In the line "Icicles hang like daggers from the eaves", which technique is used?
  7. 7th December 1999A trapezium has parallel sides of 6 cm and 10 cm, and a height of 5 cm. Calculate its area.
  8. 8th December 1999Find 30% of 150.
  9. 9th December 1999Work out 13^2.
  10. 10th December 1999Find 5/6 of 72.
  11. 11th December 1999A recipe for 4 people uses 200g of butter. How much butter is needed for 10 people?
  12. 12th December 1999A tap fills a bucket at a constant rate of 3 litres every 2 minutes. Work out how many litres it fills in 10 minutes.
  13. 13th December 1999Calculate 74 - 38.
  14. 14th December 1999Work out -7 + 15.
  15. 15th December 1999A journey of 240 km takes 4 hours at a constant speed. Work out the speed in km/h.
  16. 16th December 1999State one way a communicable disease differs from a non-communicable disease.
  17. 17th December 1999State the name given to a horizontal row of the periodic table.
  18. 18th December 1999A red filter is held in front of a torch shining white light. State which colour of light passes through the filter.
  19. 19th December 1999State whether sound can travel through a vacuum (empty space), and give a reason.
  20. 20th December 1999A pupil records the mass of a beaker of ice every 2 minutes as it melts. State which variable is the independent variable in this investigation.
  21. 21st December 1999Name the three states of matter.
  22. 22nd December 1999A question is worth 4 marks and asks you to explain the effect of a writer's language in a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
  23. 23rd December 1999Which punctuation mark correctly joins these two related sentences into one: 'The rain finally stopped ___ the match could go ahead after all.'
  24. 24th December 1999Add a hyphen where needed: a ten year old girl won the competition.
  25. 25th December 1999Explain why a poet might end a poem about autumn with a single short line, such as 'Then, silence.'
  26. 26th December 1999A poem has three-line stanzas with no rhyme at all. What effect might this irregular structure create?
  27. 27th December 1999A climber 'gripped the rope until his knuckles turned white, then made himself let go, one finger at a time.' What does this suggest about the difficulty of what he is doing?
  28. 28th December 1999In the sentence 'The overexcited puppy chewed through the new shoe,' what word class is 'chewed'?
  29. 29th December 1999Which word means the same as "enormous" in a sentence describing a huge shipwreck: "colossal", "tiny", "narrow" or "shallow"?
  30. 30th December 1999Find 2/5 of 65.
  31. 31st December 1999Work out 9 x 8.