Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
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.
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.
- 1st December 2004Give the chemical symbol for the element sodium.
- 2nd December 2004State the name of a reaction in which a more reactive metal displaces a less reactive metal from a compound.
- 3rd December 2004In an extract, a character 'chewed his lip and stared at his shoes.' What does this suggest about the character's feelings?
- 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.
- 5th December 2004Choose the correct word: There were ___ people at the concert than last year. (less / fewer)
- 6th December 2004Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The branches creaked and clawed at the window'?
- 7th December 2004Find and copy one word from 'the anvil's patient, unmoving weight' that gives the anvil a human quality.
- 8th December 2004Which word class is 'desperately' in 'He desperately searched for a handhold'?
- 9th December 2004In the sentence 'The overexcited puppy chewed through the new shoe,' what word class is 'chewed'?
- 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"?
- 11th December 2004Without a calculator, work out 15% of 180.
- 12th December 2004Convert 2 hours 15 minutes into minutes.
- 13th December 2004Find 2/9 of 63.
- 14th December 2004Write 5.4 x 10^4 as an ordinary number.
- 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.
- 16th December 2004Write 0.72 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 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.
- 18th December 2004A cuboid has dimensions 6 cm by 4 cm by 3 cm. Calculate its volume.
- 19th December 2004Find the nth term of the sequence 2, 5, 8, 11, ...
- 20th December 2004Put these structures in the order air passes through them when breathing in, starting from the windpipe: alveoli, bronchi, trachea, bronchioles.
- 21st December 2004A piece of magnesium ribbon is added to silver nitrate solution. State whether a displacement reaction would occur, and explain why.
- 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.
- 23rd December 2004State which planet in the Solar System is closest to the Sun.
- 24th December 2004State the pH value of a neutral solution, such as pure water.
- 25th December 2004Which piece of apparatus should be used to measure the temperature of a liquid in an experiment?
- 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?
- 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.
- 28th December 2004Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The wind whispered through the willow'?
- 29th December 2004Add the missing apostrophe: The three teachers offices were being redecorated. (There are three teachers, each with their own office.)
- 30th December 2004Add a semicolon in the correct place: The bus was late the queue grew longer by the minute.
- 31st December 2004Explain why a poet might choose soft, hissing sounds, sibilance, to describe a fox moving at night, rather than harsh, hard sounds.