Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
January 2006 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in January 2006, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in January 2006
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2006A laptop valued at 900 pounds depreciates by 12% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 2nd January 2006Work out -15 + 4 x (-2).
- 3rd January 2006A drawer contains 4 black socks and 6 white socks only. Two socks are taken out at random, one after another, without replacement. Work out the probability that both socks are white.
- 4th January 2006A two-digit number is 7 times the sum of its digits. The digit in the tens place is one more than the digit in the units place. Find the two-digit number.
- 5th January 2006Here are the first four terms of a sequence: 7, 11, 15, 19. Find an expression for the nth term.
- 6th January 2006Find the mean of 14, 18, 22, 16 and 20.
- 7th January 2006A 750 gram box of cereal costs 2.40 pounds, and a 500 gram box of the same cereal costs 1.70 pounds. Which box offers better value for money? Show your working.
- 8th January 2006State one way a red blood cell is adapted to carry oxygen efficiently.
- 9th January 2006A reaction between magnesium ribbon and hydrochloric acid gives off heat, and the temperature of the acid rises from 20 degrees C to 35 degrees C. State whether this reaction is exothermic or endothermic, and explain how you know.
- 10th January 2006State whether solar power is a renewable or a non-renewable energy resource.
- 11th January 2006A book rests on a table and does not move. Name the force from the table that balances the book's weight.
- 12th January 2006State whether respiration in muscle cells during hard exercise, when oxygen supply cannot keep up with demand, is aerobic or anaerobic.
- 13th January 2006Name the layer of gases surrounding the Earth that contains the oxygen needed for respiration.
- 14th January 2006Which sentence uses a semicolon correctly? A) The whistle blew; and the players stopped. B) The whistle blew; the players stopped at once.
- 15th January 2006A question asks you to 'find and copy one word which shows that the workshop was untidy.' What kind of question is this, and how should you answer it?
- 16th January 2006A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how a writer builds atmosphere across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 17th January 2006Which of these would best speed up the pace of an action scene: a long sentence with several clauses, or a short, three-word sentence?
- 18th January 2006Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for 'the funfair at midnight.'
- 19th January 2006Is the claim 'debating is clearly the single best way to build confidence' a fact or an opinion?
- 20th January 2006A charity advert says: 'You could change a child's life today.' Which word directly addresses the reader, and what effect does this have?
- 21st January 2006Work out (-5) + (-8) - (-6).
- 22nd January 2006In a right-angled triangle, the angle at A is 40 degrees and the side opposite A is 8 cm. Use trigonometry to find the length of the hypotenuse, giving your answer to 1 decimal place.
- 23rd January 2006Find 3/8 of 64.
- 24th January 2006Write 0.000078 in standard form.
- 25th January 2006A cylindrical bucket has radius 12 cm and height 25 cm. Work out its volume, to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 26th January 2006Work out sqrt(169) + 4^2.
- 27th January 2006Increase 240 pounds by 12%.
- 28th January 2006Work out 312 divided by 8, using a written method.
- 29th January 2006The list shows the number of pets owned by 9 pupils: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 0, 1. Write down the mode.
- 30th January 2006During vigorous exercise, a sprinter's muscles cannot get enough oxygen. Name the substance that builds up in the muscles as a result, and state one effect this has.
- 31st January 2006The density of olive oil is 0.92 g/cm^3. State, with a reason, whether olive oil would float or sink in water (density 1.0 g/cm^3).