Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
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.
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.
- 1st December 1999Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The fog rolled in from the sea.'
- 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?
- 3rd December 1999Which word class is 'cautiously' in the sentence 'She cautiously ran her glove along the rusted rail'?
- 4th December 1999A question asks you to "compare how the two poets present the sea." What is the best way to structure your answer?
- 5th December 1999Give one example of emotive language a writer might use to persuade pupils that reading is enjoyable rather than a chore.
- 6th December 1999In the line "Icicles hang like daggers from the eaves", which technique is used?
- 7th December 1999A trapezium has parallel sides of 6 cm and 10 cm, and a height of 5 cm. Calculate its area.
- 8th December 1999Find 30% of 150.
- 9th December 1999Work out 13^2.
- 10th December 1999Find 5/6 of 72.
- 11th December 1999A recipe for 4 people uses 200g of butter. How much butter is needed for 10 people?
- 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.
- 13th December 1999Calculate 74 - 38.
- 14th December 1999Work out -7 + 15.
- 15th December 1999A journey of 240 km takes 4 hours at a constant speed. Work out the speed in km/h.
- 16th December 1999State one way a communicable disease differs from a non-communicable disease.
- 17th December 1999State the name given to a horizontal row of the periodic table.
- 18th December 1999A red filter is held in front of a torch shining white light. State which colour of light passes through the filter.
- 19th December 1999State whether sound can travel through a vacuum (empty space), and give a reason.
- 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.
- 21st December 1999Name the three states of matter.
- 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?
- 23rd December 1999Which punctuation mark correctly joins these two related sentences into one: 'The rain finally stopped ___ the match could go ahead after all.'
- 24th December 1999Add a hyphen where needed: a ten year old girl won the competition.
- 25th December 1999Explain why a poet might end a poem about autumn with a single short line, such as 'Then, silence.'
- 26th December 1999A poem has three-line stanzas with no rhyme at all. What effect might this irregular structure create?
- 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?
- 28th December 1999In the sentence 'The overexcited puppy chewed through the new shoe,' what word class is 'chewed'?
- 29th December 1999Which word means the same as "enormous" in a sentence describing a huge shipwreck: "colossal", "tiny", "narrow" or "shallow"?
- 30th December 1999Find 2/5 of 65.
- 31st December 1999Work out 9 x 8.