Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
January 2003 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in January 2003, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in January 2003
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2003Name the process of cell division that produces two genetically identical daughter cells for growth and repair.
- 2nd January 2003A pupil measures the mass of a metal washer five times using a balance and gets: 14.2 g, 14.5 g, 14.1 g, 14.6 g, 14.1 g. Calculate the mean mass, giving your answer to 3 significant figures.
- 3rd January 2003Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "The map was old and torn."
- 4th January 2003Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for 'the corridor at midnight.'
- 5th January 2003A writer describes a departure board as 'flickering through a list of cancellations like a nervous heartbeat.' Name the technique used.
- 6th January 2003A character 'held his breath without realising it' as he entered a dark passage. What does this suggest about his feelings?
- 7th January 2003A poem has four lines per stanza with the rhyme pattern ABAB. What is this pattern called?
- 8th January 2003Is the claim 'reading is obviously more rewarding than scrolling through a screen' a fact or an opinion?
- 9th January 2003A question asks you to explain "how the poet's feelings towards winter change across the poem." What should your answer focus on?
- 10th January 2003An L-shaped room is made from a 6 m by 4 m rectangle with a 2 m by 3 m rectangle removed from one corner. Calculate the area of the room.
- 11th January 2003Work out -4 - 7.
- 12th January 2003Find the highest common factor of 24 and 36.
- 13th January 2003Simplify 6x + 4 - 2x - 9.
- 14th January 2003A basket contains 15 lemons and 25 limes. Write the ratio of lemons to limes in its simplest form.
- 15th January 2003Calculate 56 + 29.
- 16th January 2003Work out 20 - 3 x 4.
- 17th January 2003A number is tripled and then 5 is added, giving 32. Form an equation and find the number.
- 18th January 2003Simplify the ratio 18:24 to its simplest form.
- 19th January 2003A polar bear has thick white fur. State whether this is a structural or a behavioural adaptation, and explain why.
- 20th January 2003State whether reactivity increases or decreases going down Group 1, the alkali metals.
- 21st January 2003A cliff is 170 m from a person who claps and hears the echo. Use distance = speed x time and a speed of sound of 340 m/s to calculate how long after the clap the echo is heard.
- 22nd January 2003State the number of protons found in an atom of oxygen, given that oxygen's atomic number is 8.
- 23rd January 2003A ball is dropped from a height and falls freely towards the ground. State the type of energy the ball gains as it speeds up.
- 24th January 2003A pupil applies a force of 8 N to a spring and it extends by 4 cm. Use spring constant = force / extension to calculate the spring constant, in N/cm.
- 25th January 2003In an extract, a character 'chewed his lip and stared at his shoes.' What does this suggest about the character's feelings?
- 26th January 2003Add a colon to this sentence in the correct place: The expedition needed three things warm clothing enough food and a reliable map.
- 27th January 2003Choose the correct word: There were ___ people at the concert than last year. (less / fewer)
- 28th January 2003Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The branches creaked and clawed at the window'?
- 29th January 2003Find and copy one word from 'the anvil's patient, unmoving weight' that gives the anvil a human quality.
- 30th January 2003Which word class is 'desperately' in 'He desperately searched for a handhold'?
- 31st January 2003Correct the punctuation in this sentence, which reports direct speech: she shouted watch out and pulled her brother back from the road