Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
August 2005 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in August 2005, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in August 2005
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2005State the order of rotational symmetry and the number of lines of symmetry of a regular pentagon.
- 2nd August 2005The nth term of a sequence is 5n - 2. Find the 12th term.
- 3rd August 2005A food sample turns from blue to brick-red when Benedict's solution is added and the mixture is heated. State which nutrient this positive result shows is present.
- 4th August 2005State the method used to extract aluminium from its ore, and explain why this method is needed rather than reduction with carbon.
- 5th August 2005Name the organs whose main job is to filter waste products out of the blood and produce urine.
- 6th August 2005Name the continuous process by which rocks are broken down, transported, deposited, and can eventually reform into new rock types.
- 7th August 2005A pupil measures the volume of a gas produced in a reaction every 30 seconds. State whether the volume of gas is the independent or the dependent variable.
- 8th August 2005Amara is investigating how the mass of a paper cone affects how long it takes to fall from a fixed height. State the independent variable and the dependent variable in this investigation.
- 9th August 2005In a factual text, is the sentence "Hot air balloons were first flown in France in 1783" a fact or an opinion?
- 10th August 2005A poem repeats the phrase 'and still it climbed' at the end of every stanza. What is this technique called, and what might its effect be?
- 11th August 2005Find and copy one word from the phrase 'the old clock ticked its patient rhythm' that gives the clock a human quality.
- 12th August 2005Which punctuation mark correctly joins these two sentences without adding a joining word: 'The coach was late the pupils waited in the hall.'?
- 13th August 2005Choose the correct word: I'm not sure ___ my umbrella is. (where / were / we're)
- 14th August 2005A poem is written in a single, unbroken stanza with no rhyme. What effect might this create?
- 15th August 2005You are asked to summarise a paragraph in one sentence. What is the biggest risk to avoid?
- 16th August 2005A conversion graph shows that 5 miles is equivalent to 8 kilometres. Using this scale, convert 20 miles to kilometres.
- 17th August 2005A survey asked 20 people how many pets they own: 5 people own 0 pets, 8 own 1 pet, 4 own 2 pets, and 3 own 3 pets. Work out the mean number of pets owned.
- 18th August 2005Write 0.72 as a percentage.
- 19th August 2005A recipe for 8 people uses flour, sugar and butter in the ratio 4 : 3 : 1 by weight, totalling 800 g. Work out how many grams of sugar are needed to make the recipe for 12 people.
- 20th August 2005A circle has a radius of 10 cm. Work out the area of a sector with an angle of 72 degrees at the centre, giving your answer to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 21st August 2005A chord divides a circle so that the angle at the centre is 130 degrees. Work out the angle at the circumference subtended by the same chord, on the major arc.
- 22nd August 2005Factorise 2x^2 + 7x + 3.
- 23rd August 2005A recipe uses 3 eggs for every 240 g of flour. Work out how many grams of flour are needed for 7 eggs, at the same ratio.
- 24th August 2005Work out 5 + 4 x 3 - 2.
- 25th August 2005Name the male gamete and the female gamete involved in human reproduction.
- 26th August 2005Name the acid that produces nitrate salts.
- 27th August 2005Name the circuit component whose symbol is a circle with a cross inside it.
- 28th August 2005Name the process by which digested food molecules pass from the small intestine into the blood.
- 29th August 2005An old-style filament light bulb transfers 100 J of electrical energy. Of this, 20 J is transferred usefully as light, and the rest is wasted as heat. Calculate the energy wasted as heat.
- 30th August 2005A pupil applies a force of 10 N to move an object 2 m in the direction of the force. Use work done = force x distance to calculate the work done.
- 31st August 2005A student wears safety goggles when heating a test tube of liquid over a Bunsen burner. State the hazard that the goggles help protect against.