Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
February 2001 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in February 2001, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in February 2001
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 2001Which sentence uses a semicolon correctly? A) The whistle blew; and the players stopped. B) The whistle blew; the players stopped at once.
- 2nd February 2001In an extract, a character 'set down his tools without a word and walked out into the rain.' What might this action suggest about his state of mind?
- 3rd February 2001A writer describes a clock as "ticking its patient warning through the empty hall." Name the poetic technique used here.
- 4th February 2001Punctuate this exchange, adding inverted commas, capital letters and any other punctuation needed: are you sure about this asked Leo his sister nodded without looking up
- 5th February 2001Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: The funfair was SCARY.
- 6th February 2001A speaker says 'Ninety per cent of our debate club members say it changed how they see arguments.' Name the technique used here.
- 7th February 2001A charity advert says: 'You could change a child's life today.' Which word directly addresses the reader, and what effect does this have?
- 8th February 2001Order these integers from smallest to largest: -6, 2, -3, 0, -9
- 9th February 2001The three angles of a triangle are in the ratio 2 : 3 : 4. Work out the size of the largest angle.
- 10th February 2001A triangle has base 10 cm and height 7 cm. Work out its area.
- 11th February 2001p is inversely proportional to q^2. When q = 2, p = 18. Work out p when q = 3.
- 12th February 2001The nth term of a sequence is 6n - 4. Work out the 12th term.
- 13th February 2001A car journey of 156 miles takes 2.4 hours. Work out the average speed, to the nearest mile per hour.
- 14th February 2001A rectangle has a perimeter of 38 cm and a width of 6.5 cm. Work out its length.
- 15th February 2001Find the area of a triangle with base 12 cm and height 7 cm.
- 16th February 2001A box contains 7 yellow pencils, 5 blue pencils and 3 green pencils. A pencil is picked at random. Find the probability that it is not blue.
- 17th February 2001State one structure found in a plant cell but not in an animal cell.
- 18th February 2001A sample of matter has particles that are far apart and moving quickly in random directions. State which state of matter this describes.
- 19th February 2001In a tug of war, Team X pulls with a force of 640 N and Team Y pulls with a force of 590 N in the opposite direction. Calculate the resultant force acting on the rope.
- 20th February 2001Name the type of blood vessel that carries blood away from the heart under high pressure.
- 21st February 2001State whether gold is a very reactive or a very unreactive metal, given that it is found in the Earth as the pure metal rather than in a compound.
- 22nd February 2001State the name of the process by which oxygen moves from the air in the lungs into the blood.
- 23rd February 2001Before starting a watering investigation, a pupil writes this prediction: a plant given more water each day will grow taller than one given less water. State one piece of scientific reasoning that could support this prediction.
- 24th February 2001Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "The map was old and torn."
- 25th February 2001Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for 'the corridor at midnight.'
- 26th February 2001A writer describes a departure board as 'flickering through a list of cancellations like a nervous heartbeat.' Name the technique used.
- 27th February 2001A character 'held his breath without realising it' as he entered a dark passage. What does this suggest about his feelings?
- 28th February 2001A poem has four lines per stanza with the rhyme pattern ABAB. What is this pattern called?