Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
August 2004 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in August 2004, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in August 2004
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2004Ade and Bo share 56 sweets in the ratio 3:4. How many sweets does Bo receive?
- 2nd August 2004108 pounds is shared between Amir and Bea in the ratio 4:5.
- 3rd August 2004Write 0.4 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 4th August 2004Write 5/8 as a decimal.
- 5th August 2004Work out 7 x 9 - 4 x 5.
- 6th August 2004In the food chain 'grass, rabbit, fox', name the primary consumer.
- 7th August 2004State one physical property that distinguishes a typical non-metal from a typical metal.
- 8th August 2004Put these bodies in order of their distance from the Sun, starting with the closest: Mars, Mercury, Earth, Venus.
- 9th August 2004State whether elements in the same group of the periodic table have similar or very different chemical properties.
- 10th August 2004State one function of the human skeleton, other than support.
- 11th August 2004Name the enzyme found in saliva that begins the digestion of starch in the mouth.
- 12th August 2004Which word means the same as 'ancient' in a sentence describing an old, crumbling castle: 'timeworn', 'modern', 'spacious' or 'lively'?
- 13th August 2004Choose the correct word to complete the sentence: Regular ___ at the piano will improve your technique. (practice / practise)
- 14th August 2004Identify and correct the pronoun error: 'The dog wagged their tail happily.'
- 15th August 2004A poem compares old age to 'a candle guttering low, still giving light.' Name this technique.
- 16th August 2004Which two poetic techniques appear in the line 'The fire hissed and spat its sparks'?
- 17th August 2004Find and copy one word from 'the mist swallowed the path ahead of him' that gives the mist a human or animal-like quality.
- 18th August 2004This sentence contains a comma splice: The rain started early, we cancelled the picnic. Correct it in one way.
- 19th August 2004A diver signals "all clear" with a steady hand, but his eyes keep darting towards the wreck's dark entrance. Explain what the contrast between his signal and his eyes suggests.
- 20th August 2004A cinema charges 6.50 pounds for an adult ticket and 4.20 pounds for a child ticket. A family buys tickets for 2 adults and 3 children. Work out the total cost, without using a calculator.
- 21st August 2004Find 1/3 of 96.
- 22nd August 2004Work out -12 + 4 x 3.
- 23rd August 2004Solve x^2 - 2x - 24 = 0.
- 24th August 2004Work out 207 divided by 9, showing your written method.
- 25th August 2004Work out 143 divided by 11.
- 26th August 2004A dice has its six faces numbered 1 to 6, arranged so opposite faces always add up to 7. The face showing 2 is on top, and the face showing 3 is facing you. Work out which number is on the bottom face, and which number is on the face directly opposite the one facing you.
- 27th August 2004A right-angled triangle has hypotenuse 17 cm and one leg of 8 cm. Calculate the length of the other leg.
- 28th August 2004Using the formula v = u + at, find v when u = 5, a = 3 and t = 4.
- 29th August 2004State one way bile helps with the digestion of fats.
- 30th August 2004In the reactivity series, state which is more reactive: zinc or copper.
- 31st August 2004A pupil rubs a plastic rod with a cloth, giving the rod a negative electric charge. She then holds the rod near small pieces of paper on a table. State what she would observe, and explain why, in terms of electric charge.