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

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

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December 2004

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 7-8

Every sheet in December 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 December 2004Give the chemical symbol for the element sodium.
  2. 2nd December 2004State the name of a reaction in which a more reactive metal displaces a less reactive metal from a compound.
  3. 3rd December 2004In an extract, a character 'chewed his lip and stared at his shoes.' What does this suggest about the character's feelings?
  4. 4th December 2004Add a colon to this sentence in the correct place: The expedition needed three things warm clothing enough food and a reliable map.
  5. 5th December 2004Choose the correct word: There were ___ people at the concert than last year. (less / fewer)
  6. 6th December 2004Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The branches creaked and clawed at the window'?
  7. 7th December 2004Find and copy one word from 'the anvil's patient, unmoving weight' that gives the anvil a human quality.
  8. 8th December 2004Which word class is 'desperately' in 'He desperately searched for a handhold'?
  9. 9th December 2004In the sentence 'The overexcited puppy chewed through the new shoe,' what word class is 'chewed'?
  10. 10th December 2004A question asks you to "find and copy one phrase" meaning "completely dark." Which of these fits: "pitch black", "faintly lit", "clear blue" or "softly glowing"?
  11. 11th December 2004Without a calculator, work out 15% of 180.
  12. 12th December 2004Convert 2 hours 15 minutes into minutes.
  13. 13th December 2004Find 2/9 of 63.
  14. 14th December 2004Write 5.4 x 10^4 as an ordinary number.
  15. 15th December 2004A recipe needs 250 g of flour to make 8 muffins. Work out how much flour is needed to make 20 muffins at the same recipe strength.
  16. 16th December 2004Write 0.72 as a fraction in its simplest form.
  17. 17th December 2004A rectangular field measuring 60 m by 40 m is to be divided into identical square plots, as large as possible, with no land left over. Work out the side length of each square plot, and the total number of plots.
  18. 18th December 2004A cuboid has dimensions 6 cm by 4 cm by 3 cm. Calculate its volume.
  19. 19th December 2004Find the nth term of the sequence 2, 5, 8, 11, ...
  20. 20th December 2004Put these structures in the order air passes through them when breathing in, starting from the windpipe: alveoli, bronchi, trachea, bronchioles.
  21. 21st December 2004A piece of magnesium ribbon is added to silver nitrate solution. State whether a displacement reaction would occur, and explain why.
  22. 22nd December 2004A results table has columns for 'Time (s)' and 'Temperature (degrees C)'. State which of these two variables would normally be plotted on the x-axis of a line graph.
  23. 23rd December 2004State which planet in the Solar System is closest to the Sun.
  24. 24th December 2004State the pH value of a neutral solution, such as pure water.
  25. 25th December 2004Which piece of apparatus should be used to measure the temperature of a liquid in an experiment?
  26. 26th December 2004In the same text, is the sentence "There is nothing more thrilling than floating silently above the countryside" a fact or an opinion?
  27. 27th December 2004Find and copy one word from 'the tide dragged its heavy silver chain across the sand' that gives the tide a human or animal-like quality.
  28. 28th December 2004Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The wind whispered through the willow'?
  29. 29th December 2004Add the missing apostrophe: The three teachers offices were being redecorated. (There are three teachers, each with their own office.)
  30. 30th December 2004Add a semicolon in the correct place: The bus was late the queue grew longer by the minute.
  31. 31st December 2004Explain why a poet might choose soft, hissing sounds, sibilance, to describe a fox moving at night, rather than harsh, hard sounds.