Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
May 2004 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in May 2004, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in May 2004
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2004A jacket costs 65 pounds. Work out the cost after a 20% discount.
- 2nd May 2004p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 8, p = 9. Work out p when q = 6.
- 3rd May 2004Write 0.35 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 4th May 2004Work out 5/6 of 90.
- 5th May 2004In a class of 30 pupils, 18 play football, 14 play tennis, and 7 play both football and tennis. How many pupils play neither football nor tennis?
- 6th May 2004A rectangle has length 9.2 cm and width 6.8 cm. Calculate its perimeter.
- 7th May 2004Write the next two terms of the sequence: 3, 7, 11, 15, ...
- 8th May 2004Name the enzyme that digests starch, and state the product it is broken down into.
- 9th May 2004Name the gas released when fossil fuels are burned that is the main cause of the enhanced greenhouse effect.
- 10th May 2004Write the number 0.048706 to 2 significant figures.
- 11th May 2004State the name of the rock type formed when magma cools and solidifies underground.
- 12th May 2004Name the force that opposes the motion of an object moving through air.
- 13th May 2004A student reads the volume of liquid in a measuring cylinder. The bottom of the meniscus lines up exactly halfway between the 22 cm^3 and 24 cm^3 graduation marks. State the volume of liquid.
- 14th May 2004A non-fiction text about volcanoes uses the heading "How an Eruption Happens." What is the purpose of this heading?
- 15th May 2004What is the name for a poem written in three-line stanzas?
- 16th May 2004A poem has four-line stanzas with an ABAB rhyme scheme throughout. What effect might this regular structure have on the reader?
- 17th May 2004Insert a colon in the correct place: The kit list included the following items a torch, a compass and a whistle.
- 18th May 2004Correct the subject-verb agreement error: The team of swimmers were training every morning.
- 19th May 2004A poem compares the fox's eyes to 'two small, cold coins.' Name this technique.
- 20th May 2004A magazine article about volcanoes is broken into sections titled 'How volcanoes form', 'Famous eruptions' and 'Living near a volcano'. What are these called, and what is their purpose?
- 21st May 2004Write down the coordinates of the point 3 units to the left of the origin and 5 units up.
- 22nd May 2004A cylindrical water butt has a radius of 35 cm and a height of 120 cm. Work out its volume, giving your answer in cm^3 to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 23rd May 2004Write 3/5 as a decimal.
- 24th May 2004Two numbers are in the ratio 4 : 7. Their sum is 66. Work out the difference between the two numbers.
- 25th May 2004A shape is made from a rectangle measuring 12 cm by 8 cm, with a right-angled triangle of base 6 cm and height 8 cm removed from one corner. Work out the area of the remaining shape.
- 26th May 2004Expand and simplify (x + 5)(x - 3).
- 27th May 2004Simplify sqrt(75) - sqrt(12), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(3).
- 28th May 2004Work out 9.6 divided by 0.4.
- 29th May 2004Calculate 47 + 36.
- 30th May 2004State the name of the structure that allows oxygen and nutrients to pass from a mother's blood to her developing foetus.
- 31st May 2004Name the salt produced when zinc reacts with sulfuric acid.