Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
July 2000 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in July 2000, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in July 2000
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 2000A cylindrical bucket has radius 12 cm and height 25 cm. Work out its volume, to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 2nd July 2000Work out sqrt(169) + 4^2.
- 3rd July 2000Increase 240 pounds by 12%.
- 4th July 2000Work out 312 divided by 8, using a written method.
- 5th July 2000The list shows the number of pets owned by 9 pupils: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 0, 1. Write down the mode.
- 6th July 2000During vigorous exercise, a sprinter's muscles cannot get enough oxygen. Name the substance that builds up in the muscles as a result, and state one effect this has.
- 7th July 2000The density of olive oil is 0.92 g/cm^3. State, with a reason, whether olive oil would float or sink in water (density 1.0 g/cm^3).
- 8th July 2000A parcel of mass 2.5 kg is lifted onto a shelf 2 m above the ground. Take g = 10 N/kg and use GPE = mass x g x height. Calculate the gain in gravitational potential energy.
- 9th July 2000A cyclist travels 300 m in 25 s. Calculate her average speed.
- 10th July 2000Name the gas produced when a reactive metal reacts with a dilute acid.
- 11th July 2000A wave has a wavelength of 2 m and a frequency of 5 Hz. Use wave speed = frequency x wavelength to calculate its speed.
- 12th July 2000A pupil measures the mass of a metal washer five times using a balance and gets: 14.2 g, 14.5 g, 14.1 g, 14.6 g, 14.1 g. Calculate the mean mass, giving your answer to 3 significant figures.
- 13th July 2000Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "Dust rose from the floor, and Elias covered his mouth."
- 14th July 2000Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: 'The old house was SCARY.'
- 15th July 2000Which word from 'the tannoy crackled out another indistinct apology' suggests the announcement was hard to understand?
- 16th July 2000A diver 'counted her breaths, trying to make each one last longer than the last.' What does this suggest about her situation?
- 17th July 2000In a poem, the line "Waves gnaw at the cliff's grey chin" contains an example of which technique?
- 18th July 2000An article states 'Pupils who read for pleasure for just ten minutes a day report feeling calmer.' Name the technique used here.
- 19th July 2000A poem describes wind as "howling" and "moaning" through bare branches. Name the technique shown by these two words.
- 20th July 2000An L-shaped room is made from a 6 m by 4 m rectangle with a 2 m by 3 m rectangle removed from one corner. Calculate the area of the room.
- 21st July 2000Round 6.849 to 1 decimal place.
- 22nd July 2000A coat costs 80 pounds. Its price increases by 25%. Work out the new price.
- 23rd July 2000A prize of 240 pounds is shared between three friends in the ratio 1:2:5. Work out the smallest share.
- 24th July 2000A map has a scale of 1:20000. Two towns are 7cm apart on the map. Work out the real distance between them, in km.
- 25th July 2000Work out 3 + 6 x 2 - 4.
- 26th July 2000A recipe uses 2 eggs for every 150 g of flour. Work out how many grams of flour are needed for 5 eggs, at the same ratio.
- 27th July 2000Work out -3 - 6.
- 28th July 2000Work out -9 + 15.
- 29th July 2000Complete the word equation for photosynthesis: carbon dioxide + water produces ___ + ___.
- 30th July 2000Explain why a pencil, not a pen, must be used to draw the baseline on chromatography paper.
- 31st July 2000A cliff is 170 m from a person who claps and hears the echo. Use distance = speed x time and a speed of sound of 340 m/s to calculate how long after the clap the echo is heard.