Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
February 2002 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in February 2002, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in February 2002
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 2002A diver notices 'a single brass buckle winking in the torchlight.' Which word suggests the buckle is briefly catching and reflecting the light?
- 2nd February 2002In the phrase "silent, secret snow", which technique is being used?
- 3rd February 2002What is a counter-argument, and why might a writer include one?
- 4th February 2002In the phrase "silent, snow-hushed streets", which technique is being used?
- 5th February 2002Calculate the perimeter of a rectangle measuring 14 cm by 8.5 cm.
- 6th February 2002A pack of 24 pencils costs 3.60 pounds. Work out the cost of one pencil.
- 7th February 2002Write 0.35 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 8th February 2002A parallelogram has base 12 cm and perpendicular height 5 cm. Work out its area.
- 9th February 20023 workers can paint a fence in 8 hours, working at the same constant rate. How long would it take 4 workers to paint the same fence?
- 10th February 2002Find 10% of 95 pounds.
- 11th February 2002Work out 9 x 8.
- 12th February 2002A coat costs 80 pounds. It is reduced by 35% in a sale. Work out the sale price.
- 13th February 2002Work out 15% of 60.
- 14th February 2002State one way a communicable disease differs from a non-communicable disease.
- 15th February 2002State the name given to a horizontal row of the periodic table.
- 16th February 2002Put these bodies in order of their distance from the Sun, starting with the closest: Mars, Mercury, Earth, Venus.
- 17th February 2002State whether elements in the same group of the periodic table have similar or very different chemical properties.
- 18th February 2002A pupil records the mass of a beaker of ice every 2 minutes as it melts. State which variable is the independent variable in this investigation.
- 19th February 2002Name the three states of matter.
- 20th February 2002A question asks you to 'summarise the passage in your own words.' What must you avoid doing when answering it?
- 21st February 2002Is the relative clause in this sentence defining or non-defining, and should it have commas: 'The teacher who marked our essays gave detailed feedback' (assume there are several teachers)?
- 22nd February 2002Which sentence is correct if you mean you carried your umbrella with you: 'I brought my umbrella yesterday' or 'I bought my umbrella yesterday'?
- 23rd February 2002Find and copy one word from 'the wind stripped the last brave leaves from the oak' that suggests the leaves were trying to resist the wind.
- 24th February 2002A poem compares old age to 'a coat grown heavy with wear.' Name this technique.
- 25th February 2002A question worth 4 marks asks you to explain the effect of a writer's description. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
- 26th February 2002This sentence contains a comma splice: The rain started early, we cancelled the picnic. Correct it in one way.
- 27th February 2002In an extract, a diver "checked her air gauge twice in under a minute." What does this suggest about how she is feeling?
- 28th February 2002Find 2/5 of 65.