Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
July 2005 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in July 2005, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in July 2005
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 2005In the line "Icicles hang like daggers from the eaves", which technique is used?
- 2nd July 2005An L-shaped room is made from a 6 m by 4 m rectangle with a 2 m by 3 m rectangle removed from one corner. Calculate the area of the room.
- 3rd July 2005Find 30% of 150.
- 4th July 2005Work out 13^2.
- 5th July 2005Find 5/6 of 72.
- 6th July 2005A recipe for 4 people uses 200g of butter. How much butter is needed for 10 people?
- 7th July 2005A tap fills a bucket at a constant rate of 3 litres every 2 minutes. Work out how many litres it fills in 10 minutes.
- 8th July 2005Calculate 74 - 38.
- 9th July 2005Work out -7 + 15.
- 10th July 2005A journey of 240 km takes 4 hours at a constant speed. Work out the speed in km/h.
- 11th July 2005Name the green pigment, found in chloroplasts, that absorbs light energy for photosynthesis.
- 12th July 2005Name the group of the periodic table that contains elements which are almost completely unreactive because their outer electron shell is full.
- 13th July 2005A cliff is 170 m from a person who claps and hears the echo. Use distance = speed x time and a speed of sound of 340 m/s to calculate how long after the clap the echo is heard.
- 14th July 2005State the number of protons found in an atom of oxygen, given that oxygen's atomic number is 8.
- 15th July 2005Name the blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart.
- 16th July 2005Name the small intestine's main job in the digestive system.
- 17th July 2005A question is worth 4 marks and asks you to explain the effect of a writer's language in a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 18th July 2005Which punctuation mark correctly joins these two related sentences into one: 'The rain finally stopped ___ the match could go ahead after all.'
- 19th July 2005Add a hyphen where needed: a ten year old girl won the competition.
- 20th July 2005Explain why a poet might end a poem about autumn with a single short line, such as 'Then, silence.'
- 21st July 2005A poem has three-line stanzas with no rhyme at all. What effect might this irregular structure create?
- 22nd July 2005A climber 'gripped the rope until his knuckles turned white, then made himself let go, one finger at a time.' What does this suggest about the difficulty of what he is doing?
- 23rd July 2005Correct the punctuation in this sentence, which reports direct speech: she shouted watch out and pulled her brother back from the road
- 24th July 2005Which word means the same as "enormous" in a sentence describing a huge shipwreck: "colossal", "tiny", "narrow" or "shallow"?
- 25th July 2005Simplify 5x + 3y - 2x + 7y.
- 26th July 2005Work out 9 x 8.
- 27th July 2005Work out (4 + 3) x (9 - 5).
- 28th July 2005y is directly proportional to x^2. When x = 4, y = 32. Work out y when x = 6.
- 29th July 2005Write the ratio 18:24 in its simplest form.
- 30th July 2005Work out 8.4 x 6, using a written method.
- 31st July 2005At a small maths club meeting, every one of the 8 members shakes hands with every other member exactly once. Work out the total number of handshakes.