Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
December 2005 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in December 2005, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in December 2005
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 2005Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The waves whispered along the shingle shore'?
- 2nd December 2005What is the name for a poem written without a regular rhyme scheme or fixed rhythm?
- 3rd December 2005Choose the correct homophone: You should always ___ your times tables before a test. (practice / practise)
- 4th December 2005Choose the correct word: ___ leaving their bags by the door. (Their / There / They're)
- 5th December 2005Find and copy one word from 'the fox paused, listening to the city's held breath' that gives the city a human quality.
- 6th December 2005What do the letters PAF stand for when analysing a non-fiction text?
- 7th December 2005Find the gradient of the line joining (1, 4) and (5, 16).
- 8th December 2005A phone contract costs 18.50 pounds per month for 24 months, plus an upfront cost of 49 pounds. Work out the total cost of the contract.
- 9th December 2005Work out 3/4 + 1/6, giving your answer as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 10th December 2005Solve 3(2x - 1) = x + 17.
- 11th December 2005Describe the locus of points that are equidistant from two fixed points, A and B.
- 12th December 2005Solve x^2 = 7x - 12.
- 13th December 2005Solve x^2 + 3x - 18 = 0.
- 14th December 2005Find 3^3 + sqrt(64).
- 15th December 2005120 pounds is shared between Leo and Maya in the ratio 3:5. Work out how much Maya receives.
- 16th December 2005A doctor records that a foetus is 38 weeks old. Given that human gestation lasts approximately 40 weeks, state approximately how many weeks of pregnancy remain.
- 17th December 2005A student adds a piece of unknown grey solid to dilute acid and no bubbles are produced, even after several minutes. Suggest whether the solid is a metal or a non-metal, and explain your reasoning.
- 18th December 2005A student doubles the frequency of a wave while keeping its speed the same. State what happens to the wavelength.
- 19th December 2005Two identical bulbs are each connected on their own to an identical battery. State how the brightness of a bulb connected on its own compares with an identical bulb connected in series with a second bulb to the same type of battery.
- 20th December 2005State how long it takes, approximately, for the Moon to orbit the Earth once.
- 21st December 2005Name the gas needed by the body for aerobic respiration to take place.
- 22nd December 2005A student investigates how the mass of five different metal samples affects their volume, with mass as a continuous numerical variable. State whether a bar chart or a line graph is the more appropriate way to display these results.
- 23rd December 2005In an extract, a climber "kept checking the rope, tugging it twice before every step." What does this suggest about the climber?
- 24th December 2005In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The team faced constant setbacks - equipment failure, bad weather and dwindling supplies chipped away at morale.' What does 'dwindling' mean here?
- 25th December 2005A biography states that a scientist 'spent every evening after his factory shift teaching himself chemistry from borrowed textbooks.' What can a reader infer about this person from these facts?
- 26th December 2005An article opens with a short story about one seabird found tangled in plastic, before giving any wider statistics. What is this technique called?
- 27th December 2005Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: watch your step said the warden the path is icy
- 28th December 2005Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "Although the platform was crowded, Amara found a seat by the window."
- 29th December 2005Identify the fronted adverbial in this sentence: "Slowly, the shutters were raised one by one."
- 30th December 2005Two coins are flipped at the same time. List all the possible outcomes, and find the probability of getting exactly one head.
- 31st December 2005Write 3.6 x 10^-3 as an ordinary number.