Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
September 2002 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in September 2002, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in September 2002
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 2002Work out 15% of 340 pounds.
- 2nd September 2002Work out 8.3 x 5.2, giving your answer to 1 decimal place.
- 3rd September 2002Simplify the ratio 45:60.
- 4th September 2002A netball team played 20 matches. The table shows goals scored per match. Goals: 0, 1, 2, 3. Frequency: 4, 7, 6, 3. Calculate the mean number of goals per match.
- 5th September 2002A slice of toast contains 12 g of carbohydrate, 4 g of protein and 3 g of fat. Each gram of carbohydrate and each gram of protein provides 4 kcal of energy, and each gram of fat provides 9 kcal. Calculate the total energy content of the toast.
- 6th September 2002Name the technique used to separate sand from a mixture of sand and water.
- 7th September 2002Ben has a mass of 12 kg. Calculate his weight on Earth. Use weight = mass x gravitational field strength, with g = 10 N/kg.
- 8th September 2002State the name given to a substance that speeds up a chemical reaction without being permanently used up itself.
- 9th September 2002State one advantage of using solar power to generate electricity, compared with burning fossil fuels.
- 10th September 2002A wave has a wavelength of 2 m and a frequency of 5 Hz. Use wave speed = frequency x wavelength to calculate its speed.
- 11th September 2002A pupil wants to find out whether increasing the concentration of a salt solution affects the boiling point of water. Suggest one variable, other than salt concentration, that should be kept the same for this to be a fair test.
- 12th September 2002Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: "The cellar was DARK."
- 13th September 2002Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'Although the fog was thick, the fishermen still set out.'
- 14th September 2002In an extract, the writer moves from describing the busy platform to focusing closely on one child crying by the ticket barrier. What effect might this shift in focus create?
- 15th September 2002Find and copy one word from 'the corridor swallowed the beam of her torch' that gives the corridor a human or animal-like quality.
- 16th September 2002A poem describes a train as having a "rattling, roaring, rumbling" journey. Name the technique shown by these three words together.
- 17th September 2002An article opens with a short story about one pupil who found a favourite book by accident, before making any wider argument. What is this technique called?
- 18th September 2002A poem has six lines in each stanza with no regular rhyme pattern. What is this style called?
- 19th September 2002Calculate the area of a circle with a diameter of 20 cm. Use pi = 3.14.
- 20th September 2002Work out 12 x 7.
- 21st September 2002Work out 7 x 8 + 6 x 3.
- 22nd September 2002Without a calculator, work out 45% of 160.
- 23rd September 2002Ade and Bo share 56 sweets in the ratio 3:4. How many sweets does Bo receive?
- 24th September 2002108 pounds is shared between Amir and Bea in the ratio 4:5.
- 25th September 2002Write 0.4 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 26th September 2002Write 5/8 as a decimal.
- 27th September 2002Work out 7 x 9 - 4 x 5.
- 28th September 2002Complete the word equation for photosynthesis: carbon dioxide + water produces ___ + ___.
- 29th September 2002Explain why a pencil, not a pen, must be used to draw the baseline on chromatography paper.
- 30th September 2002State why an astronaut in open space, far from any planet or star, cannot hear an explosion happening nearby.