Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
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.
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.
- 1st April 2004Which word from 'the tannoy crackled out another indistinct apology' suggests the announcement was hard to understand?
- 2nd April 2004A diver 'counted her breaths, trying to make each one last longer than the last.' What does this suggest about her situation?
- 3rd April 2004In a poem, the line "Waves gnaw at the cliff's grey chin" contains an example of which technique?
- 4th April 2004An article states 'Pupils who read for pleasure for just ten minutes a day report feeling calmer.' Name the technique used here.
- 5th April 2004A poem describes wind as "howling" and "moaning" through bare branches. Name the technique shown by these two words.
- 6th April 2004A triangular prism has a cross-sectional area of 15 cm^2 and a length of 12 cm. Calculate its volume.
- 7th April 2004Round 6.849 to 1 decimal place.
- 8th April 2004A coat costs 80 pounds. Its price increases by 25%. Work out the new price.
- 9th April 2004A prize of 240 pounds is shared between three friends in the ratio 1:2:5. Work out the smallest share.
- 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.
- 11th April 2004Work out 3 + 6 x 2 - 4.
- 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.
- 13th April 2004Work out -3 - 6.
- 14th April 2004Work out -9 + 15.
- 15th April 2004State one way a communicable disease differs from a non-communicable disease.
- 16th April 2004State the name given to a horizontal row of the periodic table.
- 17th April 2004State the law of reflection.
- 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).
- 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.
- 20th April 2004Name the three states of matter.
- 21st April 2004A writer describes a bell as 'clanging its complaint into the empty square.' Name the poetic or literary technique used here.
- 22nd April 2004Add the correct negative prefix to make this word mean 'not legal': legal.
- 23rd April 2004Choose the correct word: We had ___ time to finish the test than we expected. (less / fewer)
- 24th April 2004What is the name for a poem written in stanzas of two lines each?
- 25th April 2004Explain why a poet might choose short, one-syllable words to describe the strike of a hammer, rather than longer, softer words.
- 26th April 2004A climber notices 'his fingers had gone from cold to strangely warm.' What might this detail suggest to an alert reader?
- 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.)
- 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?
- 29th April 2004Find 2/5 of 65.
- 30th April 2004Work out 40% of 65.