Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
April 2002 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in April 2002, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in April 2002
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 2002Name the salt produced when zinc reacts with sulfuric acid.
- 2nd April 2002State one way, other than increasing the current, to increase the strength of an electromagnet made from a coil of wire around an iron core.
- 3rd April 2002State what happens to the current in a series circuit if an extra identical bulb is added, assuming the battery voltage stays the same.
- 4th April 2002Name the organ system that carries electrical signals around the body to allow a fast reflex reaction, such as pulling a hand away from something hot.
- 5th April 2002Name the type of teeth used mainly for cutting food.
- 6th April 2002State why it is good practice to run a quick preliminary (trial) experiment before starting the main investigation.
- 7th April 2002In an extract, a climber "kept checking the rope, tugging it twice before every step." What does this suggest about the climber?
- 8th April 2002In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The team faced constant setbacks - equipment failure, bad weather and dwindling supplies chipped away at morale.' What does 'dwindling' mean here?
- 9th April 2002A biography states that a scientist 'spent every evening after his factory shift teaching himself chemistry from borrowed textbooks.' What can a reader infer about this person from these facts?
- 10th April 2002An article opens with a short story about one seabird found tangled in plastic, before giving any wider statistics. What is this technique called?
- 11th April 2002Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: watch your step said the warden the path is icy
- 12th April 2002Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "Although the platform was crowded, Amara found a seat by the window."
- 13th April 2002Identify the fronted adverbial in this sentence: "Slowly, the shutters were raised one by one."
- 14th April 2002A fair six-sided dice is rolled once. Find the probability of rolling a number greater than 4.
- 15th April 2002Write 3.6 x 10^-3 as an ordinary number.
- 16th April 2002A laptop valued at 900 pounds depreciates by 12% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 17th April 2002Work out -15 + 4 x (-2).
- 18th April 2002Two hockey teams recorded the number of goals they scored in their last 5 matches. Team A: 2, 3, 2, 4, 4. Team B: 0, 1, 5, 6, 3. Compare the two teams by working out the mean and the range for each.
- 19th April 2002Simplify sqrt(50) - sqrt(8), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(2).
- 20th April 2002Here are the first four terms of a sequence: 7, 11, 15, 19. Find an expression for the nth term.
- 21st April 2002Find the mean of 14, 18, 22, 16 and 20.
- 22nd April 2002A jacket priced at 84 pounds is increased by 25% for the winter season. Calculate the new price.
- 23rd April 2002A pupil views onion cells under a microscope after adding a drop of iodine solution to the slide. State why the iodine solution was added.
- 24th April 2002A student dissolves ammonium nitrate in water and the temperature of the solution falls. State whether this process is exothermic or endothermic.
- 25th April 2002State the unit normally used for speed in physics, and name one other unit that speed could also correctly be measured in.
- 26th April 2002Two forces of 10 N and 10 N act on an object in exactly opposite directions. Calculate the resultant force.
- 27th April 2002Name the process by which plants lose water vapour from their leaves.
- 28th April 2002Name the process used to neutralise an acid using an alkali.
- 29th April 2002Correct the punctuation in this sentence, which reports direct speech: the coach shouted keep going were nearly there
- 30th April 2002A question asks you to 'find and copy one word which shows that the workshop was untidy.' What kind of question is this, and how should you answer it?