Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
January 2000 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in January 2000, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in January 2000
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2000Work out (4 + 3) x (9 - 5).
- 2nd January 2000y is directly proportional to x^2. When x = 4, y = 32. Work out y when x = 6.
- 3rd January 2000Write the ratio 18:24 in its simplest form.
- 4th January 2000Work out 8.4 x 6, using a written method.
- 5th January 2000In a class of 30 pupils, 18 play football, 14 play tennis, and 7 play both football and tennis. How many pupils play neither football nor tennis?
- 6th January 2000State the order of rotational symmetry and the number of lines of symmetry of a regular pentagon.
- 7th January 2000Find the nth term of the sequence 2, 5, 8, 11, ...
- 8th January 2000Name the enzyme that digests starch, and state the product it is broken down into.
- 9th January 2000Name the gas released when fossil fuels are burned that is the main cause of the enhanced greenhouse effect.
- 10th January 2000A results table has columns for 'Time (s)' and 'Temperature (degrees C)'. State which of these two variables would normally be plotted on the x-axis of a line graph.
- 11th January 2000State which planet in the Solar System is closest to the Sun.
- 12th January 2000Name the force that opposes the motion of an object moving through air.
- 13th January 2000Amara is investigating how the mass of a paper cone affects how long it takes to fall from a fixed height. State the independent variable and the dependent variable in this investigation.
- 14th January 2000In a factual text, is the sentence "Hot air balloons were first flown in France in 1783" a fact or an opinion?
- 15th January 2000A poem repeats the phrase 'and still it climbed' at the end of every stanza. What is this technique called, and what might its effect be?
- 16th January 2000Find and copy one word from the phrase 'the old clock ticked its patient rhythm' that gives the clock a human quality.
- 17th January 2000Which punctuation mark correctly joins these two sentences without adding a joining word: 'The coach was late the pupils waited in the hall.'?
- 18th January 2000Choose the correct word: I'm not sure ___ my umbrella is. (where / were / we're)
- 19th January 2000A poem is written in a single, unbroken stanza with no rhyme. What effect might this create?
- 20th January 2000A biography states that a person 'left school at fourteen to support her family, and by twenty-one had opened her own shop.' What can a reader infer about this person's character from these facts?
- 21st January 2000A line has equation y = 4x - 7. Write down its gradient and its y-intercept.
- 22nd January 2000A cylindrical water butt has a radius of 35 cm and a height of 120 cm. Work out its volume, giving your answer in cm^3 to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 23rd January 2000Write 0.72 as a percentage.
- 24th January 2000Two numbers are in the ratio 4 : 7. Their sum is 66. Work out the difference between the two numbers.
- 25th January 2000A shape is made from a rectangle measuring 12 cm by 8 cm, with a right-angled triangle of base 6 cm and height 8 cm removed from one corner. Work out the area of the remaining shape.
- 26th January 2000A chord divides a circle so that the angle at the centre is 130 degrees. Work out the angle at the circumference subtended by the same chord, on the major arc.
- 27th January 2000Factorise 2x^2 + 7x + 3.
- 28th January 2000A recipe uses 3 eggs for every 240 g of flour. Work out how many grams of flour are needed for 7 eggs, at the same ratio.
- 29th January 2000Work out 5 + 4 x 3 - 2.
- 30th January 2000State the name of the structure that allows oxygen and nutrients to pass from a mother's blood to her developing foetus.
- 31st January 2000Name the salt produced when zinc reacts with sulfuric acid.