Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
February 2003 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in February 2003, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in February 2003
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 2003A question asks you to "find and copy one phrase" meaning "completely dark." Which of these fits: "pitch black", "faintly lit", "clear blue" or "softly glowing"?
- 2nd February 2003A charity bake sale raises 200 pounds, split between three charities in the ratio 3 : 2 : 5. Work out the amount the largest share receives.
- 3rd February 2003Convert 2 hours 15 minutes into minutes.
- 4th February 2003Find 2/9 of 63.
- 5th February 2003Write 5.4 x 10^4 as an ordinary number.
- 6th February 2003A recipe needs 250 g of flour to make 8 muffins. Work out how much flour is needed to make 20 muffins at the same recipe strength.
- 7th February 2003Write 0.72 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 8th February 2003A regular polygon has an exterior angle of 24 degrees. Work out how many sides the polygon has.
- 9th February 2003A cuboid has dimensions 6 cm by 4 cm by 3 cm. Calculate its volume.
- 10th February 2003The nth term of a sequence is 5n - 2. Find the 12th term.
- 11th February 2003Name the substance that builds up in muscles during anaerobic respiration and causes fatigue.
- 12th February 2003Name the two substances that must both be present for iron to rust.
- 13th February 2003Name the organs whose main job is to filter waste products out of the blood and produce urine.
- 14th February 2003Name the continuous process by which rocks are broken down, transported, deposited, and can eventually reform into new rock types.
- 15th February 2003State the name of the process by which light rays bend as they pass from air into glass.
- 16th February 2003Which piece of apparatus should be used to measure the temperature of a liquid in an experiment?
- 17th February 2003In the same text, is the sentence "There is nothing more thrilling than floating silently above the countryside" a fact or an opinion?
- 18th February 2003Find and copy one word from 'the tide dragged its heavy silver chain across the sand' that gives the tide a human or animal-like quality.
- 19th February 2003Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The wind whispered through the willow'?
- 20th February 2003Add the missing apostrophe: The three teachers offices were being redecorated. (There are three teachers, each with their own office.)
- 21st February 2003Add a semicolon in the correct place: The bus was late the queue grew longer by the minute.
- 22nd February 2003Explain why a poet might choose soft, hissing sounds, sibilance, to describe a fox moving at night, rather than harsh, hard sounds.
- 23rd February 2003You are asked to summarise a paragraph in one sentence. What is the biggest risk to avoid?
- 24th February 2003A conversion graph shows that 5 miles is equivalent to 8 kilometres. Using this scale, convert 20 miles to kilometres.
- 25th February 2003A car valued at 12,000 pounds depreciates by 15% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 26th February 2003Convert the recurring decimal 0.3636... (where the digits 36 recur) to a fraction in its simplest form.
- 27th February 2003After a 12% pay rise, Priya's monthly salary is 2,240 pounds. Work out her monthly salary before the pay rise.
- 28th February 2003On a map with a scale of 1 : 25,000, two villages are 6.8 cm apart. Work out the real-life distance between the villages, in kilometres.