Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
April 2000 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in April 2000, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in April 2000
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 2000A parallelogram has base 12 cm and perpendicular height 5 cm. Work out its area.
- 2nd April 20003 workers can paint a fence in 8 hours, working at the same constant rate. How long would it take 4 workers to paint the same fence?
- 3rd April 2000Find 10% of 95 pounds.
- 4th April 2000Work out 9 x 8.
- 5th April 2000A coat costs 80 pounds. It is reduced by 35% in a sale. Work out the sale price.
- 6th April 2000Work out 15% of 60.
- 7th April 2000In the food chain 'grass, rabbit, fox', name the primary consumer.
- 8th April 2000State one physical property that distinguishes a typical non-metal from a typical metal.
- 9th April 2000State why an astronaut in open space, far from any planet or star, cannot hear an explosion happening nearby.
- 10th April 2000Name the green pigment found in chloroplasts that absorbs light energy for photosynthesis.
- 11th April 2000State one function of the human skeleton, other than support.
- 12th April 2000Name the enzyme found in saliva that begins the digestion of starch in the mouth.
- 13th April 2000A question asks you to 'summarise the passage in your own words.' What must you avoid doing when answering it?
- 14th April 2000Is the relative clause in this sentence defining or non-defining, and should it have commas: 'The teacher who marked our essays gave detailed feedback' (assume there are several teachers)?
- 15th April 2000Which sentence is correct if you mean you carried your umbrella with you: 'I brought my umbrella yesterday' or 'I bought my umbrella yesterday'?
- 16th April 2000Find and copy one word from 'the wind stripped the last brave leaves from the oak' that suggests the leaves were trying to resist the wind.
- 17th April 2000A poem compares old age to 'a coat grown heavy with wear.' Name this technique.
- 18th April 2000A question worth 4 marks asks you to explain the effect of a writer's description. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
- 19th April 2000Which punctuation mark is missing, and where, from this sentence: Please bring your pencil case ruler and calculator to the exam.
- 20th April 2000In an extract, a diver "checked her air gauge twice in under a minute." What does this suggest about how she is feeling?
- 21st April 2000A cinema charges 6.50 pounds for an adult ticket and 4.20 pounds for a child ticket. A family buys tickets for 2 adults and 3 children. Work out the total cost, without using a calculator.
- 22nd April 2000Simplify the ratio 45:30.
- 23rd April 2000Write 5:20 as a ratio in its simplest form.
- 24th April 2000A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 9 cm and 40 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 25th April 2000A jacket costs 64 pounds. It is reduced by 15% in a sale. Work out the sale price.
- 26th April 2000A jug holds 1.8 litres. Work out how many millilitres this is.
- 27th April 2000A dice has its six faces numbered 1 to 6, arranged so opposite faces always add up to 7. The face showing 2 is on top, and the face showing 3 is facing you. Work out which number is on the bottom face, and which number is on the face directly opposite the one facing you.
- 28th April 2000A triangle has a base of 14 cm and a perpendicular height of 5 cm. Calculate its area.
- 29th April 2000Rearrange the formula P = 2l + 2w to make w the subject.
- 30th April 2000State one way bile helps with the digestion of fats.