Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
August 2001 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in August 2001, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in August 2001
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2001A text about coral reefs moves from explaining what coral is, to how reefs form, to why they are under threat. What is this structure called?
- 2nd August 2001Explain why a poet might use short, one-word lines to describe a sudden event, such as an accident.
- 3rd August 2001A poem compares grief to 'a stone carried in the pocket, never quite forgotten.' Name this technique.
- 4th August 2001Correct the tense error: Last week, the choir practises for two hours every evening.
- 5th August 2001Punctuate this exchange between two speakers, starting a new line for each: are you ready asked sam almost said priya
- 6th August 2001Which two poetic techniques appear in the line 'The streetlamp's silver stare slid over its fur'?
- 7th August 2001In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The expedition team faced constant attrition - illness, injury and exhaustion wore down their numbers day by day.' What does 'attrition' mean here?
- 8th August 2001A train travels 90 km in 1.5 hours at a constant speed, shown as a straight line on a distance-time graph. Calculate the gradient of this line, and state what it represents.
- 9th August 2001A phone contract costs 18.50 pounds per month for 24 months, plus an upfront cost of 49 pounds. Work out the total cost of the contract.
- 10th August 2001Find 35% of 180.
- 11th August 2001Solve 3(2x - 1) = x + 17.
- 12th August 2001Describe the locus of points that are equidistant from two fixed points, A and B.
- 13th August 2001Simplify sqrt(45) + sqrt(20), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(5).
- 14th August 2001A chord subtends an angle of 76 degrees at the centre of a circle. Work out the angle it subtends at the circumference, on the major arc.
- 15th August 2001A journey of 84 km takes 1 hour 45 minutes. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 16th August 2001A car travels 210 km in 3.5 hours at a constant speed. Calculate how far it would travel in 5 hours at the same speed.
- 17th August 2001A doctor records that a foetus is 38 weeks old. Given that human gestation lasts approximately 40 weeks, state approximately how many weeks of pregnancy remain.
- 18th August 2001A student adds a piece of unknown grey solid to dilute acid and no bubbles are produced, even after several minutes. Suggest whether the solid is a metal or a non-metal, and explain your reasoning.
- 19th August 2001A wave has a frequency of 50 Hz and a wavelength of 4 m. Use wave speed = frequency x wavelength to calculate its speed.
- 20th August 2001State the pH of a neutral solution such as pure water.
- 21st August 2001State whether the Earth casting a shadow that blocks sunlight from reaching the Moon is called a solar eclipse or a lunar eclipse.
- 22nd August 2001Name the gas needed by the body for aerobic respiration to take place.
- 23rd August 2001A student investigates how the mass of five different metal samples affects their volume, with mass as a continuous numerical variable. State whether a bar chart or a line graph is the more appropriate way to display these results.
- 24th August 2001A writer describes the wind as "clawing at their jackets, determined to drag them off the mountain." Name the technique used here.
- 25th August 2001What do the letters PAF stand for when analysing a non-fiction text?
- 26th August 2001A newspaper report about a restored pier states: 'Engineers replaced over eleven thousand individual timbers during the two-year project.' What retrieval detail answers the question, how many timbers were replaced?
- 27th August 2001Give one example of a statistic a writer might use to persuade readers to use fewer plastic bags.
- 28th August 2001Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The wind howled, and the shutters rattled.'
- 29th August 2001Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "The train arrived late."
- 30th August 2001Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: fresh bread the baker called still warm from the oven
- 31st August 2001A coin is flipped 200 times and lands on heads 118 times. Calculate the relative frequency of landing on heads.