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April 2004 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day

Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in April 2004, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.

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April 2004

30 sheets · 150 questions · Years 7-8

Every sheet in April 2004

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st April 2004Which word from 'the tannoy crackled out another indistinct apology' suggests the announcement was hard to understand?
  2. 2nd April 2004A diver 'counted her breaths, trying to make each one last longer than the last.' What does this suggest about her situation?
  3. 3rd April 2004In a poem, the line "Waves gnaw at the cliff's grey chin" contains an example of which technique?
  4. 4th April 2004An article states 'Pupils who read for pleasure for just ten minutes a day report feeling calmer.' Name the technique used here.
  5. 5th April 2004A poem describes wind as "howling" and "moaning" through bare branches. Name the technique shown by these two words.
  6. 6th April 2004A triangular prism has a cross-sectional area of 15 cm^2 and a length of 12 cm. Calculate its volume.
  7. 7th April 2004Round 6.849 to 1 decimal place.
  8. 8th April 2004A coat costs 80 pounds. Its price increases by 25%. Work out the new price.
  9. 9th April 2004A prize of 240 pounds is shared between three friends in the ratio 1:2:5. Work out the smallest share.
  10. 10th April 2004A map has a scale of 1:20000. Two towns are 7cm apart on the map. Work out the real distance between them, in km.
  11. 11th April 2004Work out 3 + 6 x 2 - 4.
  12. 12th April 2004A recipe uses 2 eggs for every 150 g of flour. Work out how many grams of flour are needed for 5 eggs, at the same ratio.
  13. 13th April 2004Work out -3 - 6.
  14. 14th April 2004Work out -9 + 15.
  15. 15th April 2004State one way a communicable disease differs from a non-communicable disease.
  16. 16th April 2004State the name given to a horizontal row of the periodic table.
  17. 17th April 2004State the law of reflection.
  18. 18th April 2004A student shouts and hears an echo 0.6 s later off a distant wall. Given the speed of sound in air is 340 m/s, calculate the total distance travelled by the sound (there and back).
  19. 19th April 2004A pupil records the mass of a beaker of ice every 2 minutes as it melts. State which variable is the independent variable in this investigation.
  20. 20th April 2004Name the three states of matter.
  21. 21st April 2004A writer describes a bell as 'clanging its complaint into the empty square.' Name the poetic or literary technique used here.
  22. 22nd April 2004Add the correct negative prefix to make this word mean 'not legal': legal.
  23. 23rd April 2004Choose the correct word: We had ___ time to finish the test than we expected. (less / fewer)
  24. 24th April 2004What is the name for a poem written in stanzas of two lines each?
  25. 25th April 2004Explain why a poet might choose short, one-syllable words to describe the strike of a hammer, rather than longer, softer words.
  26. 26th April 2004A climber notices 'his fingers had gone from cold to strangely warm.' What might this detail suggest to an alert reader?
  27. 27th April 2004Add an apostrophe in the correct place: The three girls coats were left on the bus. (There is one coat per girl, and three girls in total.)
  28. 28th April 2004A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how a writer builds a sense of danger across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
  29. 29th April 2004Find 2/5 of 65.
  30. 30th April 2004Work out 40% of 65.