Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
May 2000 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in May 2000, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in May 2000
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2000In the reactivity series, state which is more reactive: zinc or copper.
- 2nd May 2000Define the terms 'solute' and 'solvent'.
- 3rd May 2000Name the force that causes objects to fall towards the ground when dropped.
- 4th May 2000Write the word equation for photosynthesis.
- 5th May 2000A student measures the length of a metal rod five times: 62.1 cm, 62.4 cm, 62.0 cm, 62.5 cm, 62.2 cm. Calculate the mean length of the rod.
- 6th May 2000Which word means the same as "ascend" in a sentence about a balloon rising into the sky: "climb", "sink", "hover" or "spin"?
- 7th May 2000Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The waves whispered along the shingle shore'?
- 8th May 2000What is the name for a poem written without a regular rhyme scheme or fixed rhythm?
- 9th May 2000Choose the correct homophone: You should always ___ your times tables before a test. (practice / practise)
- 10th May 2000Choose the correct word: ___ leaving their bags by the door. (Their / There / They're)
- 11th May 2000Find and copy one word from 'the fox paused, listening to the city's held breath' that gives the city a human quality.
- 12th May 2000A travel article is written for a general newspaper audience rather than for expert climbers. How might its vocabulary and level of detail differ from a specialist mountaineering magazine?
- 13th May 2000On a distance-time graph, a cyclist's journey is shown as a horizontal line for 15 minutes. What does this tell you about the cyclist during this time?
- 14th May 2000Find the midpoint of the line segment joining A(-3, 5) and B(7, -1).
- 15th May 2000Work out 3/4 + 1/6, giving your answer as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 16th May 2000A shop increases a price by 25%, then later reduces the new price by 20%. Work out the overall percentage change from the original price.
- 17th May 2000An open-top fish tank, with no lid, is a cuboid with length 50 cm, width 30 cm and height 25 cm. Work out the total area of glass needed to make the tank.
- 18th May 2000Solve x^2 = 7x - 12.
- 19th May 2000Solve x^2 + 3x - 18 = 0.
- 20th May 2000Find 3^3 + sqrt(64).
- 21st May 2000120 pounds is shared between Leo and Maya in the ratio 3:5. Work out how much Maya receives.
- 22nd May 2000Name the organelle in a plant cell that contains chlorophyll and is the site of photosynthesis.
- 23rd May 2000State the colour universal indicator turns in a strong alkali.
- 24th May 2000A torch bulb has a resistance of 15 ohms and a current of 0.2 A flows through it. Use V = I x R to calculate the voltage across the bulb.
- 25th May 2000Name the salt formed when hydrochloric acid reacts with sodium hydroxide.
- 26th May 2000A pupil wants to measure the current flowing through a lamp in a circuit. Name the piece of apparatus she needs, and state whether it should be connected in series or in parallel with the lamp.
- 27th May 2000State the word equation for aerobic respiration.
- 28th May 2000State the name given to a value read from a graph beyond the range of the data that was actually measured.
- 29th May 2000In an extract, a climber "kept checking the rope, tugging it twice before every step." What does this suggest about the climber?
- 30th May 2000In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The team faced constant setbacks - equipment failure, bad weather and dwindling supplies chipped away at morale.' What does 'dwindling' mean here?
- 31st May 2000A biography states that a scientist 'spent every evening after his factory shift teaching himself chemistry from borrowed textbooks.' What can a reader infer about this person from these facts?