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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.

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January 2000

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 7-8

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.

  1. 1st January 2000Work out (4 + 3) x (9 - 5).
  2. 2nd January 2000y is directly proportional to x^2. When x = 4, y = 32. Work out y when x = 6.
  3. 3rd January 2000Write the ratio 18:24 in its simplest form.
  4. 4th January 2000Work out 8.4 x 6, using a written method.
  5. 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?
  6. 6th January 2000State the order of rotational symmetry and the number of lines of symmetry of a regular pentagon.
  7. 7th January 2000Find the nth term of the sequence 2, 5, 8, 11, ...
  8. 8th January 2000Name the enzyme that digests starch, and state the product it is broken down into.
  9. 9th January 2000Name the gas released when fossil fuels are burned that is the main cause of the enhanced greenhouse effect.
  10. 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.
  11. 11th January 2000State which planet in the Solar System is closest to the Sun.
  12. 12th January 2000Name the force that opposes the motion of an object moving through air.
  13. 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.
  14. 14th January 2000In a factual text, is the sentence "Hot air balloons were first flown in France in 1783" a fact or an opinion?
  15. 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?
  16. 16th January 2000Find and copy one word from the phrase 'the old clock ticked its patient rhythm' that gives the clock a human quality.
  17. 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.'?
  18. 18th January 2000Choose the correct word: I'm not sure ___ my umbrella is. (where / were / we're)
  19. 19th January 2000A poem is written in a single, unbroken stanza with no rhyme. What effect might this create?
  20. 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?
  21. 21st January 2000A line has equation y = 4x - 7. Write down its gradient and its y-intercept.
  22. 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.)
  23. 23rd January 2000Write 0.72 as a percentage.
  24. 24th January 2000Two numbers are in the ratio 4 : 7. Their sum is 66. Work out the difference between the two numbers.
  25. 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.
  26. 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.
  27. 27th January 2000Factorise 2x^2 + 7x + 3.
  28. 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.
  29. 29th January 2000Work out 5 + 4 x 3 - 2.
  30. 30th January 2000State the name of the structure that allows oxygen and nutrients to pass from a mother's blood to her developing foetus.
  31. 31st January 2000Name the salt produced when zinc reacts with sulfuric acid.