Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
January 2004 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in January 2004, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in January 2004
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2004Which sentence is correct if you mean you carried your umbrella with you: 'I brought my umbrella yesterday' or 'I bought my umbrella yesterday'?
- 2nd January 2004Find and copy one word from 'the wind stripped the last brave leaves from the oak' that suggests the leaves were trying to resist the wind.
- 3rd January 2004A poem compares old age to 'a coat grown heavy with wear.' Name this technique.
- 4th January 2004A question worth 4 marks asks you to explain the effect of a writer's description. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
- 5th January 2004Which sentence uses a semicolon correctly? A) I like tennis; and swimming. B) I like tennis; my sister prefers swimming.
- 6th January 2004In an extract, a diver "checked her air gauge twice in under a minute." What does this suggest about how she is feeling?
- 7th January 2004A rectangle has length 9 cm and width 6 cm. Work out its area and its perimeter.
- 8th January 2004Simplify the ratio 45:30.
- 9th January 2004Write 5:20 as a ratio in its simplest form.
- 10th January 2004A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 9 cm and 40 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 11th January 2004A jacket costs 64 pounds. It is reduced by 15% in a sale. Work out the sale price.
- 12th January 2004A jug holds 1.8 litres. Work out how many millilitres this is.
- 13th January 2004A floor is tiled with a repeating pattern of identical regular hexagonal tiles, with no gaps or overlaps. State the size of each interior angle of a regular hexagon, and explain why regular hexagons can tile a flat floor exactly.
- 14th January 2004A triangle has a base of 14 cm and a perpendicular height of 5 cm. Calculate its area.
- 15th January 2004Write the first four terms of the sequence with nth term 2n^2.
- 16th January 2004State one way the alveoli are adapted for efficient gas exchange.
- 17th January 2004Explain why attaching a block of zinc to the hull of a steel ship helps to protect the ship from rusting.
- 18th January 2004A pupil measures a length as 250 mm. State this length in metres.
- 19th January 2004State how many natural moons orbit the Earth.
- 20th January 2004Name the gas that makes up approximately 78% of the Earth's atmosphere.
- 21st January 2004A student measures the length of a metal rod five times: 62.1 cm, 62.4 cm, 62.0 cm, 62.5 cm, 62.2 cm. Calculate the mean length of the rod.
- 22nd January 2004Which word means the same as "ascend" in a sentence about a balloon rising into the sky: "climb", "sink", "hover" or "spin"?
- 23rd January 2004Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The waves whispered along the shingle shore'?
- 24th January 2004What is the name for a poem written without a regular rhyme scheme or fixed rhythm?
- 25th January 2004Choose the correct homophone: You should always ___ your times tables before a test. (practice / practise)
- 26th January 2004Choose the correct word: ___ leaving their bags by the door. (Their / There / They're)
- 27th January 2004Find and copy one word from 'the fox paused, listening to the city's held breath' that gives the city a human quality.
- 28th January 2004In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The expedition team faced constant attrition - illness, injury and exhaustion wore down their numbers day by day.' What does 'attrition' mean here?
- 29th January 2004A train travels 90 km in 1.5 hours at a constant speed, shown as a straight line on a distance-time graph. Calculate the gradient of this line, and state what it represents.
- 30th January 2004The nth term of a sequence is 5n - 2. Work out the 15th term.
- 31st January 2004Work out 3/4 + 1/6, giving your answer as a fraction in its simplest form.