Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
July 2004 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in July 2004, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in July 2004
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 2004Identify the four stages of a well-structured short narrative.
- 2nd July 2004Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: dont go near the big wheel warned tom its not safe
- 3rd July 2004A speaker opens with a short, true story about one shy pupil who became the club's best speaker. What is this technique called?
- 4th July 2004A leaflet states: 'Experts agree that recycling just one more item a week could transform our town's waste problem.' Name one persuasive technique used here.
- 5th July 2004List all the factors of 30, and state the highest common factor (HCF) of 30 and 45.
- 6th July 2004A right-angled triangle has two shorter sides of length 9 cm and 12 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 7th July 2004Simplify 7x - 3y + 2x + 8y.
- 8th July 2004A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 7 cm and 24 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 9th July 2004A bag contains 9 red, 8 blue and 7 green counters only. A counter is picked at random. Work out the probability it is green, giving your answer as a decimal to 3 significant figures.
- 10th July 2004Work out 15% of 340 pounds.
- 11th July 2004Work out 8.3 x 5.2, giving your answer to 1 decimal place.
- 12th July 2004Simplify the ratio 45:60.
- 13th July 2004A netball team played 20 matches. The table shows goals scored per match. Goals: 0, 1, 2, 3. Frequency: 4, 7, 6, 3. Calculate the mean number of goals per match.
- 14th July 2004A slice of toast contains 12 g of carbohydrate, 4 g of protein and 3 g of fat. Each gram of carbohydrate and each gram of protein provides 4 kcal of energy, and each gram of fat provides 9 kcal. Calculate the total energy content of the toast.
- 15th July 2004Name the technique used to separate sand from a mixture of sand and water.
- 16th July 2004Ben has a mass of 12 kg. Calculate his weight on Earth. Use weight = mass x gravitational field strength, with g = 10 N/kg.
- 17th July 2004A ray of light travels from air into a glass block and bends towards the normal at the boundary. Name this effect.
- 18th July 2004Name one structure found in a plant cell that is not found in an animal cell.
- 19th July 2004A pupil doubles the concentration of acid used in a reaction with a metal, keeping everything else the same. State what happens to the rate of the reaction.
- 20th July 2004A pupil's results table is missing units for one column, headed only 'Volume'. State why it is important to always include a unit in a column heading or with a numerical answer.
- 21st July 2004Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: "The cellar was DARK."
- 22nd July 2004Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'Although the fog was thick, the fishermen still set out.'
- 23rd July 2004In an extract, the writer moves from describing the busy platform to focusing closely on one child crying by the ticket barrier. What effect might this shift in focus create?
- 24th July 2004Find and copy one word from 'the corridor swallowed the beam of her torch' that gives the corridor a human or animal-like quality.
- 25th July 2004A poem describes a train as having a "rattling, roaring, rumbling" journey. Name the technique shown by these three words together.
- 26th July 2004An article opens with a short story about one pupil who found a favourite book by accident, before making any wider argument. What is this technique called?
- 27th July 2004A poem has six lines in each stanza with no regular rhyme pattern. What is this style called?
- 28th July 2004Calculate the perimeter of a rectangle measuring 14 cm by 8.5 cm.
- 29th July 2004Work out 12 x 7.
- 30th July 2004Work out 7 x 8 + 6 x 3.
- 31st July 2004Without a calculator, work out 45% of 160.