Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
September 2000 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in September 2000, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in September 2000
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 2000A poem compares the fox's eyes to 'two small, cold coins.' Name this technique.
- 2nd September 2000You are asked to summarise a paragraph in one sentence. What is the biggest risk to avoid?
- 3rd September 2000A conversion graph shows that 5 miles is equivalent to 8 kilometres. Using this scale, convert 20 miles to kilometres.
- 4th September 2000A bag contains 12 red counters, 15 blue counters and 9 green counters only. A counter is picked at random. Work out the probability that it is blue, giving your answer as a decimal to 3 significant figures.
- 5th September 2000Write 3/5 as a decimal.
- 6th September 2000Two joggers start together at a park gate. One returns to the gate every 18 minutes, the other every 24 minutes. After how many minutes will they next be at the gate together?
- 7th September 2000Two parallel lines are cut by a transversal. One of the angles formed is 63 degrees. State the size of the co-interior (allied) angle on the same side of the transversal, and explain why.
- 8th September 2000Expand and simplify (x + 5)(x - 3).
- 9th September 2000Simplify sqrt(75) - sqrt(12), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(3).
- 10th September 2000Work out 9.6 divided by 0.4.
- 11th September 2000Calculate 47 + 36.
- 12th September 2000Explain why muscles must work in antagonistic pairs rather than alone.
- 13th September 2000State whether a solution with pH 3 is acidic, neutral, or alkaline.
- 14th September 2000Name the circuit component whose symbol is a circle with a cross inside it.
- 15th September 2000Name the process by which digested food molecules pass from the small intestine into the blood.
- 16th September 2000An old-style filament light bulb transfers 100 J of electrical energy. Of this, 20 J is transferred usefully as light, and the rest is wasted as heat. Calculate the energy wasted as heat.
- 17th September 2000Name the force that pulls all objects with mass towards each other, keeping planets in orbit.
- 18th September 2000On a graph of temperature (y-axis) against time (x-axis), a straight line rises from (0 s, 20 degrees C) to (40 s, 60 degrees C). Calculate the gradient of this line, and state what it represents.
- 19th September 2000A guide tells the group "we're nearly there" in a steady voice, but keeps glancing anxiously at the darkening sky. Explain what the contrast between his words and his glances suggests.
- 20th September 2000You are asked to summarise a paragraph in one sentence. What is the biggest risk to avoid?
- 21st September 2000Give one feature, other than headings, that a factual magazine article might use to help organise information for the reader.
- 22nd September 2000What is emotive language, and why might a writer use it in a leaflet about ocean pollution?
- 23rd September 2000Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: 'The storm was BIG.'
- 24th September 2000Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "The doors opened, and passengers spilled onto the platform."
- 25th September 2000Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: "The market was NOISY."
- 26th September 2000Find the mean of these test scores: 14, 18, 12, 20, 16.
- 27th September 2000y is directly proportional to x. When x = 6, y = 15. Work out y when x = 10.
- 28th September 2000A bag contains 8 red, 9 blue and 7 green counters only. A counter is picked at random. Work out the probability it is red, giving your answer as a decimal to 3 significant figures.
- 29th September 2000Find 3/5 of 120.
- 30th September 2000A scatter graph plots the number of hours 10 students spent revising against their test scores. The points show that more hours of revision is generally associated with a higher test score, though not perfectly. Describe the type of correlation shown, and state one thing this correlation does not prove.