Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
April 2003 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in April 2003, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in April 2003
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 2003A solid is heated until it turns directly into a gas without becoming a liquid first. Name this change of state.
- 2nd April 2003State the approximate time it takes for light from the Sun to reach the Earth.
- 3rd April 2003Choose the correct homophone to complete the sentence: The team celebrated ___ victory together. (their / there / they're)
- 4th April 2003In the sentence 'The old clock in the hallway ticked with the patience of a watchman,' which word gives the clock a human quality?
- 5th April 2003A character mutters "It's nothing" while quickly hiding a letter in his pocket. Explain what the contrast between his words and actions suggests.
- 6th April 2003Explain one way an ending can 'connect back' to the opening of a story.
- 7th April 2003Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: Although the fair had closed years ago, the carousel still turned.
- 8th April 2003Give one example of emotive language a speaker might use to persuade pupils that public speaking is worth the risk.
- 9th April 2003What is a rhetorical question, and why do persuasive writers use them?
- 10th April 2003Round 4826 to the nearest hundred.
- 11th April 2003The three angles of a triangle are in the ratio 2 : 3 : 4. Work out the size of the largest angle.
- 12th April 2003Without a calculator, work out 35% of 220.
- 13th April 2003Solve x^2 + 4x - 21 = 0.
- 14th April 2003A motorbike valued at 5,500 pounds depreciates by 18% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 15th April 2003Work out 4.7 x 3.6, giving your answer to 1 decimal place.
- 16th April 2003A car travels 189 miles using 7 gallons of fuel. Work out the miles per gallon.
- 17th April 2003A pair of trainers costs 45 pounds. The price increases by 20%. Work out the new price.
- 18th April 2003A bag contains 5 red counters and 7 blue counters. Two counters are taken from the bag at random, one after the other, without replacement. Find the probability that both counters are the same colour.
- 19th April 2003Put these organs in the order food passes through them during digestion: large intestine, mouth, stomach, small intestine, oesophagus.
- 20th April 2003A pupil finds the volume of an irregular stone using a measuring cylinder. The water level rises from 35 cm^3 to 52 cm^3 when the stone is added. The stone has a mass of 42.5 g. Calculate the density of the stone, giving your answer to 2 significant figures.
- 21st April 2003State whether the main force acting when a compass needle points north is a contact force or a non-contact force.
- 22nd April 2003Name the process by which cells release energy from glucose using oxygen.
- 23rd April 2003Name one renewable energy resource.
- 24th April 2003State the name of the process by which oxygen moves from the air in the lungs into the blood.
- 25th April 2003A pupil's teacher suggests using a data logger to measure temperature every second during an experiment, instead of a pupil reading a thermometer every minute. Suggest one advantage of using a data logger in this experiment.
- 26th April 2003Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: dont go any further whispered grace something isnt right down here
- 27th April 2003Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The fog rolled in, and the harbour lights dimmed to a blur.'
- 28th April 2003A five-mark question asks you to explain how the writer builds a sense of frustration across the whole extract. What should your answer cover?
- 29th April 2003A question is worth 3 marks and asks you to explain the effect of a description. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
- 30th April 2003If a poem's rhythm becomes short and broken in its final stanza after being steady throughout, what might this suggest?