Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
July 2003 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in July 2003, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in July 2003
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 2003A pupil applies a force of 10 N to move an object 2 m in the direction of the force. Use work done = force x distance to calculate the work done.
- 2nd July 2003A student wears safety goggles when heating a test tube of liquid over a Bunsen burner. State the hazard that the goggles help protect against.
- 3rd July 2003A writer describes the wind as "clawing at their jackets, determined to drag them off the mountain." Name the technique used here.
- 4th July 2003What do the letters PAF stand for when analysing a non-fiction text?
- 5th July 2003A newspaper report about a restored pier states: 'Engineers replaced over eleven thousand individual timbers during the two-year project.' What retrieval detail answers the question, how many timbers were replaced?
- 6th July 2003Give one example of a statistic a writer might use to persuade readers to use fewer plastic bags.
- 7th July 2003Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The wind howled, and the shutters rattled.'
- 8th July 2003Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "The train arrived late."
- 9th July 2003Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: fresh bread the baker called still warm from the oven
- 10th July 2003Two coins are flipped at the same time. List all the possible outcomes, and find the probability of getting exactly one head.
- 11th July 2003In a right-angled triangle, the angle at A is 32 degrees and the adjacent side is 9 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse, to 1 decimal place.
- 12th July 2003A cylindrical tin has radius 4 cm and height 15 cm. Work out its volume, to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 13th July 2003Simplify the ratio 32:12.
- 14th July 2003A fair coin is flipped and a fair six-sided dice is rolled at the same time. Work out the probability of getting heads on the coin and a number greater than 4 on the dice.
- 15th July 2003Femi can complete a job alone in 2 hours, Grace can complete the same job alone in 3 hours, and Hassan can complete it alone in 6 hours. Working together at these constant rates, how long will it take them to complete the job?
- 16th July 2003Factorise fully 10x + 15.
- 17th July 2003Work out 2^5 - 3^3.
- 18th July 2003A 750 gram box of cereal costs 2.40 pounds, and a 500 gram box of the same cereal costs 1.70 pounds. Which box offers better value for money? Show your working.
- 19th July 2003State whether human eye colour is an example of inherited variation, environmental variation, or both.
- 20th July 2003State whether an exothermic reaction transfers energy to, or takes in energy from, the surroundings.
- 21st July 2003State whether solar power is a renewable or a non-renewable energy resource.
- 22nd July 2003A book rests on a table and does not move. Name the force from the table that balances the book's weight.
- 23rd July 2003State the unit used to measure electric current.
- 24th July 2003State the name of the force that acts to slow down a moving object due to contact between two surfaces.
- 25th July 2003Which sentence uses a semicolon correctly? A) The whistle blew; and the players stopped. B) The whistle blew; the players stopped at once.
- 26th July 2003A writer describes sawdust as 'settling like a light snowfall over every surface.' Name the technique used.
- 27th July 2003In an extract, a character "kept glancing at the door and twisting the strap of her bag." What does this suggest about the character's feelings?
- 28th July 2003Write one short sentence (no more than five words) suitable for a moment of sudden shock in a story.
- 29th July 2003Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: The gates creaked open.
- 30th July 2003What is the effect of directly addressing an audience as 'you' in a speech?
- 31st July 2003A charity advert says: 'You could change a child's life today.' Which word directly addresses the reader, and what effect does this have?