Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
September 2003 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in September 2003, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in September 2003
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 2003A journey of 240 km takes 4 hours at a constant speed. Work out the speed in km/h.
- 2nd September 2003Name the food group that provides the body with the most energy per gram.
- 3rd September 2003State the property used to arrange the elements in order in the modern periodic table.
- 4th September 2003An astronaut has a mass of 70 kg on Earth. State her mass on the Moon, and explain why her weight on the Moon is less than her weight on Earth.
- 5th September 2003Using the periodic table, state whether the element chlorine (Cl) is a metal or a non-metal.
- 6th September 2003Calculate the mean of these three repeat readings of a force: 4.2 N, 4.6 N, 4.4 N.
- 7th September 2003A circuit has a total resistance of 12 ohm and a current of 0.5 A flowing through it. Use V = I x R to calculate the voltage across the circuit.
- 8th September 2003A question is worth 4 marks and asks you to explain the effect of a writer's language in a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 9th September 2003Which punctuation mark correctly joins these two related sentences into one: 'The rain finally stopped ___ the match could go ahead after all.'
- 10th September 2003Add a hyphen where needed: a ten year old girl won the competition.
- 11th September 2003Explain why a poet might end a poem about autumn with a single short line, such as 'Then, silence.'
- 12th September 2003A poem has three-line stanzas with no rhyme at all. What effect might this irregular structure create?
- 13th September 2003A climber 'gripped the rope until his knuckles turned white, then made himself let go, one finger at a time.' What does this suggest about the difficulty of what he is doing?
- 14th September 2003Choose the correct homophone to complete the sentence: The dog wagged ___ tail happily. (its / it's)
- 15th September 2003Which word means the same as "enormous" in a sentence describing a huge shipwreck: "colossal", "tiny", "narrow" or "shallow"?
- 16th September 2003The probability that a spinner lands on red is 0.35. Work out the probability that it does not land on red.
- 17th September 2003Work out 9 x 8.
- 18th September 2003Work out (4 + 3) x (9 - 5).
- 19th September 2003y is directly proportional to x^2. When x = 4, y = 32. Work out y when x = 6.
- 20th September 2003Write the ratio 18:24 in its simplest form.
- 21st September 2003Work out 8.4 x 6, using a written method.
- 22nd September 2003A cube with side length 4 cm is built from 64 unit cubes, each 1 cm x 1 cm x 1 cm. The outside of the large cube is painted red, then it is taken apart into the 64 unit cubes again. How many of the unit cubes have exactly two faces painted red?
- 23rd September 2003State the order of rotational symmetry and the number of lines of symmetry of a regular pentagon.
- 24th September 2003A pattern of dots grows so that pattern 1 has 4 dots, pattern 2 has 7 dots, and pattern 3 has 10 dots. How many dots will pattern 6 have?
- 25th September 2003Complete the word equation for aerobic respiration: glucose + oxygen produces ___ + ___.
- 26th September 2003State one way that painting a garden gate helps to prevent it from rusting.
- 27th September 2003Explain how a person is able to see a book resting on a table in a well-lit room, in terms of light rays.
- 28th September 2003Explain one way in which a polar bear's thick white fur helps it survive in the Arctic.
- 29th September 2003Name the organ in the human body that produces insulin.
- 30th September 2003Amara is investigating how the mass of a paper cone affects how long it takes to fall from a fixed height. State the independent variable and the dependent variable in this investigation.