Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
May 2002 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in May 2002, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in May 2002
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2002A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how a writer builds atmosphere across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 2nd May 2002Which of these would best speed up the pace of an action scene: a long sentence with several clauses, or a short, three-word sentence?
- 3rd May 2002Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for 'the funfair at midnight.'
- 4th May 2002Is the claim 'debating is clearly the single best way to build confidence' a fact or an opinion?
- 5th May 2002Give one example of emotive language a writer might use to persuade readers to support an animal shelter.
- 6th May 2002Work out (-5) + (-8) - (-6).
- 7th May 2002A right-angled triangle has two shorter sides of length 9 cm and 12 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 8th May 2002Find 3/8 of 64.
- 9th May 2002Write 0.000078 in standard form.
- 10th May 2002A cylindrical bucket has radius 12 cm and height 25 cm. Work out its volume, to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 11th May 2002Work out sqrt(169) + 4^2.
- 12th May 2002Increase 240 pounds by 12%.
- 13th May 2002Work out 312 divided by 8, using a written method.
- 14th May 2002The list shows the number of pets owned by 9 pupils: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 0, 1. Write down the mode.
- 15th May 2002During vigorous exercise, a sprinter's muscles cannot get enough oxygen. Name the substance that builds up in the muscles as a result, and state one effect this has.
- 16th May 2002The density of olive oil is 0.92 g/cm^3. State, with a reason, whether olive oil would float or sink in water (density 1.0 g/cm^3).
- 17th May 2002A parcel of mass 2.5 kg is lifted onto a shelf 2 m above the ground. Take g = 10 N/kg and use GPE = mass x g x height. Calculate the gain in gravitational potential energy.
- 18th May 2002A solution turns universal indicator paper red. State whether the solution is acidic, neutral or alkaline.
- 19th May 2002State one disadvantage of burning coal to generate electricity.
- 20th May 2002A pupil doubles the concentration of acid used in a reaction with a metal, keeping everything else the same. State what happens to the rate of the reaction.
- 21st May 2002In an investigation into reaction time, a pupil's results are 0.18 s, 0.19 s, 0.61 s, 0.18 s and 0.20 s. Identify the anomalous result, and suggest one likely reason it occurred.
- 22nd May 2002Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "Dust rose from the floor, and Elias covered his mouth."
- 23rd May 2002Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: 'The old house was SCARY.'
- 24th May 2002Which word from 'the tannoy crackled out another indistinct apology' suggests the announcement was hard to understand?
- 25th May 2002A diver 'counted her breaths, trying to make each one last longer than the last.' What does this suggest about her situation?
- 26th May 2002In a poem, the line "Waves gnaw at the cliff's grey chin" contains an example of which technique?
- 27th May 2002An article states 'Pupils who read for pleasure for just ten minutes a day report feeling calmer.' Name the technique used here.
- 28th May 2002A poem describes wind as "howling" and "moaning" through bare branches. Name the technique shown by these two words.
- 29th May 2002A trapezium has parallel sides of 6 cm and 10 cm, and a height of 5 cm. Calculate its area.
- 30th May 2002Round 6.849 to 1 decimal place.
- 31st May 2002A coat costs 80 pounds. Its price increases by 25%. Work out the new price.