Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
November 2005 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in November 2005, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in November 2005
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 2005Name the food group that provides the body with the most energy per gram.
- 2nd November 2005State the property used to arrange the elements in order in the modern periodic table.
- 3rd November 2005A ray of light travels from air into a glass block. State whether the ray bends towards the normal or away from the normal as it enters the glass.
- 4th November 2005Write the word equation for photosynthesis.
- 5th November 2005Calculate the mean of these three repeat readings of a force: 4.2 N, 4.6 N, 4.4 N.
- 6th November 2005A circuit has a total resistance of 12 ohm and a current of 0.5 A flowing through it. Use V = I x R to calculate the voltage across the circuit.
- 7th November 2005A question asks you to 'summarise the passage in your own words.' What must you avoid doing when answering it?
- 8th November 2005Is the relative clause in this sentence defining or non-defining, and should it have commas: 'The teacher who marked our essays gave detailed feedback' (assume there are several teachers)?
- 9th November 2005Which sentence is correct if you mean you carried your umbrella with you: 'I brought my umbrella yesterday' or 'I bought my umbrella yesterday'?
- 10th November 2005Find and copy one word from 'the wind stripped the last brave leaves from the oak' that suggests the leaves were trying to resist the wind.
- 11th November 2005A poem compares old age to 'a coat grown heavy with wear.' Name this technique.
- 12th November 2005A question worth 4 marks asks you to explain the effect of a writer's description. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
- 13th November 2005Find and correct the tense error in this sentence: Yesterday, Priya walks to school and meets her friend Tom.
- 14th November 2005In an extract, a diver "checked her air gauge twice in under a minute." What does this suggest about how she is feeling?
- 15th November 2005The probability that a spinner lands on red is 0.35. Work out the probability that it does not land on red.
- 16th November 2005Simplify the ratio 45:30.
- 17th November 2005Write 5:20 as a ratio in its simplest form.
- 18th November 2005A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 9 cm and 40 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 19th November 2005A jacket costs 64 pounds. It is reduced by 15% in a sale. Work out the sale price.
- 20th November 2005A jug holds 1.8 litres. Work out how many millilitres this is.
- 21st November 2005A cube with side length 4 cm is built from 64 unit cubes, each 1 cm x 1 cm x 1 cm. The outside of the large cube is painted red, then it is taken apart into the 64 unit cubes again. How many of the unit cubes have exactly two faces painted red?
- 22nd November 2005A triangle has a base of 14 cm and a perpendicular height of 5 cm. Calculate its area.
- 23rd November 2005The first three terms of the triangular numbers are 1, 3, 6. If the pattern continues in the same way, what is the next term after 6?
- 24th November 2005Complete the word equation for aerobic respiration: glucose + oxygen produces ___ + ___.
- 25th November 2005State one way that painting a garden gate helps to prevent it from rusting.
- 26th November 2005The Sun is much larger than the Earth. State what type of object the Sun is, and name the force that keeps the Earth in orbit around it.
- 27th November 2005Name the type of rock formed when layers of sediment, such as sand or mud, are compressed together over a long period of time.
- 28th November 2005Name the organ in the human body that produces insulin.
- 29th November 2005A student measures the length of a metal rod five times: 62.1 cm, 62.4 cm, 62.0 cm, 62.5 cm, 62.2 cm. Calculate the mean length of the rod.
- 30th November 2005Which word means the same as "ascend" in a sentence about a balloon rising into the sky: "climb", "sink", "hover" or "spin"?