Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
April 2005 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in April 2005, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in April 2005
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 2005Which punctuation mark is missing, and where, from this sentence: Please bring your pencil case ruler and calculator to the exam.
- 2nd April 2005A writer describes a current as "dragging greedy fingers along the wreck." Name the technique used here.
- 3rd April 2005A charity bake sale raises 200 pounds, split between three charities in the ratio 3 : 2 : 5. Work out the amount the largest share receives.
- 4th April 2005A box of 15 chocolates costs 4.50 pounds. Work out the cost of one chocolate.
- 5th April 2005Work out 56 / 7.
- 6th April 2005In a right-angled triangle, the angle at A is 27 degrees and the opposite side is 6 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse, to 1 decimal place.
- 7th April 2005Work out 3/4 of 148.
- 8th April 2005Share 156 pounds between two people in the ratio 7:6.
- 9th April 2005A regular polygon has an exterior angle of 24 degrees. Work out how many sides the polygon has.
- 10th April 2005Convert 4.2 metres into centimetres.
- 11th April 2005Rearrange the formula P = 2l + 2w to make w the subject.
- 12th April 2005Name the substance that builds up in muscles during anaerobic respiration and causes fatigue.
- 13th April 2005Name the two substances that must both be present for iron to rust.
- 14th April 2005Define the terms 'solute' and 'solvent'.
- 15th April 2005Name the force that causes objects to fall towards the ground when dropped.
- 16th April 2005State the name of the process by which light rays bend as they pass from air into glass.
- 17th April 2005A thermometer has graduations every 1 degree C. A student takes a single temperature reading of 40 degrees C. Calculate the percentage uncertainty in this reading.
- 18th April 2005A text about coral reefs moves from explaining what coral is, to how reefs form, to why they are under threat. What is this structure called?
- 19th April 2005Explain why a poet might use short, one-word lines to describe a sudden event, such as an accident.
- 20th April 2005A poem compares grief to 'a stone carried in the pocket, never quite forgotten.' Name this technique.
- 21st April 2005Correct the tense error: Last week, the choir practises for two hours every evening.
- 22nd April 2005Punctuate this exchange between two speakers, starting a new line for each: are you ready asked sam almost said priya
- 23rd April 2005Which two poetic techniques appear in the line 'The streetlamp's silver stare slid over its fur'?
- 24th April 2005A travel article is written for a general newspaper audience rather than for expert climbers. How might its vocabulary and level of detail differ from a specialist mountaineering magazine?
- 25th April 2005On a distance-time graph, a cyclist's journey is shown as a horizontal line for 15 minutes. What does this tell you about the cyclist during this time?
- 26th April 2005A car valued at 12,000 pounds depreciates by 15% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 27th April 2005Find 35% of 180.
- 28th April 2005After a 12% pay rise, Priya's monthly salary is 2,240 pounds. Work out her monthly salary before the pay rise.
- 29th April 2005On a map with a scale of 1 : 25,000, two villages are 6.8 cm apart. Work out the real-life distance between the villages, in kilometres.
- 30th April 2005Simplify sqrt(45) + sqrt(20), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(5).