Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
October 2000 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in October 2000, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in October 2000
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2000Simplify (3x^2 y^3)^2 divided by 9x^3 y^4, giving your answer as simply as possible.
- 2nd October 2000Solve 5x - 4 = 21.
- 3rd October 2000A train travels 245 km in 3.5 hours. Work out its average speed.
- 4th October 2000Find 35% of 160 pounds.
- 5th October 2000Name the specialised cell in humans that is adapted with a long tail and many mitochondria to swim toward an egg cell.
- 6th October 2000State what happens to a catalyst during a chemical reaction.
- 7th October 2000A runner covers 400 m in 50 seconds at a constant speed. Use speed = distance / time to calculate her speed.
- 8th October 2000Some endothermic reactions cause the temperature of their surroundings to fall. Explain, in terms of energy, why this happens.
- 9th October 2000A trolley of mass 2 kg is raised to a height of 5 m. Use GPE = mass x gravitational field strength x height (g = 10 N/kg) to calculate its gravitational potential energy.
- 10th October 2000Name the planet in our solar system that is closest to the Sun.
- 11th October 2000Choose the correct homophone to complete the sentence: The team celebrated ___ victory together. (their / there / they're)
- 12th October 2000A four-mark question asks you to explain the effect of the writer's language in one paragraph. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
- 13th October 2000A question asks you to "find and copy one word" meaning "silent." Which of these fits: "hushed", "loud", "busy" or "bright"?
- 14th October 2000Identify the four stages of a well-structured short narrative.
- 15th October 2000Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: dont go near the big wheel warned tom its not safe
- 16th October 2000A speaker opens with a short, true story about one shy pupil who became the club's best speaker. What is this technique called?
- 17th October 2000What is a rhetorical question, and why do persuasive writers use them?
- 18th October 2000List all the factors of 30, and state the highest common factor (HCF) of 30 and 45.
- 19th October 2000p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 4, p = 15. Work out the value of p when q = 10.
- 20th October 2000Simplify 7x - 3y + 2x + 8y.
- 21st October 2000A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 7 cm and 24 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 22nd October 2000A bag contains 9 red, 8 blue and 7 green counters only. A counter is picked at random. Work out the probability it is green, giving your answer as a decimal to 3 significant figures.
- 23rd October 2000Work out 15% of 340 pounds.
- 24th October 2000Work out 8.3 x 5.2, giving your answer to 1 decimal place.
- 25th October 2000Simplify the ratio 45:60.
- 26th October 2000A netball team played 20 matches. The table shows goals scored per match. Goals: 0, 1, 2, 3. Frequency: 4, 7, 6, 3. Calculate the mean number of goals per match.
- 27th October 2000A slice of toast contains 12 g of carbohydrate, 4 g of protein and 3 g of fat. Each gram of carbohydrate and each gram of protein provides 4 kcal of energy, and each gram of fat provides 9 kcal. Calculate the total energy content of the toast.
- 28th October 2000Name the technique used to separate sand from a mixture of sand and water.
- 29th October 2000Ben has a mass of 12 kg. Calculate his weight on Earth. Use weight = mass x gravitational field strength, with g = 10 N/kg.
- 30th October 2000Name the process by which cells release energy from glucose using oxygen.
- 31st October 2000Name one renewable energy resource.