Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
April 2001 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in April 2001, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in April 2001
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 2001At a small maths club meeting, every one of the 8 members shakes hands with every other member exactly once. Work out the total number of handshakes.
- 2nd April 2001A cuboid has dimensions 6 cm by 4 cm by 3 cm. Calculate its volume.
- 3rd April 2001A pattern of dots grows so that pattern 1 has 4 dots, pattern 2 has 7 dots, and pattern 3 has 10 dots. How many dots will pattern 6 have?
- 4th April 2001A food sample turns from blue to brick-red when Benedict's solution is added and the mixture is heated. State which nutrient this positive result shows is present.
- 5th April 2001State the method used to extract aluminium from its ore, and explain why this method is needed rather than reduction with carbon.
- 6th April 2001Explain how a person is able to see a book resting on a table in a well-lit room, in terms of light rays.
- 7th April 2001Explain one way in which a polar bear's thick white fur helps it survive in the Arctic.
- 8th April 2001A pupil measures the volume of a gas produced in a reaction every 30 seconds. State whether the volume of gas is the independent or the dependent variable.
- 9th April 2001Which piece of apparatus should be used to measure the temperature of a liquid in an experiment?
- 10th April 2001In the same text, is the sentence "There is nothing more thrilling than floating silently above the countryside" a fact or an opinion?
- 11th April 2001Find and copy one word from 'the tide dragged its heavy silver chain across the sand' that gives the tide a human or animal-like quality.
- 12th April 2001Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The wind whispered through the willow'?
- 13th April 2001Add the missing apostrophe: The three teachers offices were being redecorated. (There are three teachers, each with their own office.)
- 14th April 2001Add a semicolon in the correct place: The bus was late the queue grew longer by the minute.
- 15th April 2001Explain why a poet might choose soft, hissing sounds, sibilance, to describe a fox moving at night, rather than harsh, hard sounds.
- 16th April 2001A newspaper report about a school's new library states: 'The library, funded entirely by a single anonymous donation, opened its doors last Tuesday.' What retrieval detail answers the question, how was the library funded?
- 17th April 2001A straight line passes through (0, 5) and has a gradient of -2. Write down its equation.
- 18th April 2001A survey asked 20 people how many pets they own: 5 people own 0 pets, 8 own 1 pet, 4 own 2 pets, and 3 own 3 pets. Work out the mean number of pets owned.
- 19th April 2001Convert the recurring decimal 0.3636... (where the digits 36 recur) to a fraction in its simplest form.
- 20th April 2001A recipe for 8 people uses flour, sugar and butter in the ratio 4 : 3 : 1 by weight, totalling 800 g. Work out how many grams of sugar are needed to make the recipe for 12 people.
- 21st April 2001A circle has a radius of 10 cm. Work out the area of a sector with an angle of 72 degrees at the centre, giving your answer to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 22nd April 2001Factorise x^2 - 9x + 20.
- 23rd April 2001Expand and simplify (2x - 3)(x + 4).
- 24th April 2001A car's value depreciates from 18,000 pounds to 14,400 pounds in one year. Work out the percentage decrease.
- 25th April 2001Work out 9 x 7.
- 26th April 2001Name the male gamete and the female gamete involved in human reproduction.
- 27th April 2001Name the acid that produces nitrate salts.
- 28th April 2001In a series circuit, an ammeter placed before a bulb reads 0.6 A. State the current a second ammeter, placed elsewhere in the same series circuit, would read.
- 29th April 2001Name the enzyme, found in saliva, that begins the digestion of starch in the mouth.
- 30th April 2001State the standard unit used for density in physics and chemistry.