Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
July 2006 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in July 2006, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in July 2006
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 2006Work out -12 + 4 x 3.
- 2nd July 2006Solve x^2 - 2x - 24 = 0.
- 3rd July 2006Work out 207 divided by 9, showing your written method.
- 4th July 2006Work out 143 divided by 11.
- 5th July 2006In a class of 30 pupils, 18 play football, 14 play tennis, and 7 play both football and tennis. How many pupils play neither football nor tennis?
- 6th July 2006A right-angled triangle has hypotenuse 17 cm and one leg of 8 cm. Calculate the length of the other leg.
- 7th July 2006Write the first four terms of the sequence with nth term 2n^2.
- 8th July 2006Name the enzyme that digests starch, and state the product it is broken down into.
- 9th July 2006Name the gas released when fossil fuels are burned that is the main cause of the enhanced greenhouse effect.
- 10th July 2006A pupil measures a length as 250 mm. State this length in metres.
- 11th July 2006State how many natural moons orbit the Earth.
- 12th July 2006Name the force that opposes the motion of an object moving through air.
- 13th July 2006A cylinder of gas is labelled with a diamond-shaped symbol showing a black flame on an orange background. State what hazard this symbol represents.
- 14th July 2006A writer describes rising ocean temperatures as "a slow-burning threat to one of the planet's most colourful ecosystems." Explain what effect the phrase "slow-burning" has on the reader.
- 15th July 2006A poem compares loneliness to 'an empty chair at a crowded table.' Name this technique.
- 16th July 2006Explain why a poet might choose an irregular, unpredictable rhythm to describe a storm, rather than a steady, regular one.
- 17th July 2006Choose the correct homophone: ___ going to be late if the bus does not arrive soon. (Whose / Who's)
- 18th July 2006Identify the subordinate clause in this sentence: Because the fire alarm sounded, everyone left the building calmly.
- 19th July 2006What is the term for a poem that continues a sentence or idea from one line to the next without a pause?
- 20th July 2006In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The expedition team faced constant attrition - illness, injury and exhaustion wore down their numbers day by day.' What does 'attrition' mean here?
- 21st July 2006A train travels 90 km in 1.5 hours at a constant speed, shown as a straight line on a distance-time graph. Calculate the gradient of this line, and state what it represents.
- 22nd July 2006A cylindrical water butt has a radius of 35 cm and a height of 120 cm. Work out its volume, giving your answer in cm^3 to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 23rd July 2006Find 3/8 of 64.
- 24th July 2006Two numbers are in the ratio 4 : 7. Their sum is 66. Work out the difference between the two numbers.
- 25th July 2006A shape is made from a rectangle measuring 12 cm by 8 cm, with a right-angled triangle of base 6 cm and height 8 cm removed from one corner. Work out the area of the remaining shape.
- 26th July 2006In a right-angled triangle, the hypotenuse is 13 cm and one other side is 5 cm. Work out the size of the angle opposite the 5 cm side, to 1 decimal place.
- 27th July 2006A triangle has sides 7 cm and 9 cm with an included angle of 50 degrees. Work out its area, to 1 decimal place.
- 28th July 2006Work out the mean of 8, 12, 15, 9 and 11.
- 29th July 2006Find 25% of 84 pounds.
- 30th July 2006State the name of the structure that allows oxygen and nutrients to pass from a mother's blood to her developing foetus.
- 31st July 2006Name the salt produced when zinc reacts with sulfuric acid.