Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
August 2006 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in August 2006, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in August 2006
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2006A wave has a frequency of 50 Hz and a wavelength of 4 m. Use wave speed = frequency x wavelength to calculate its speed.
- 2nd August 2006State the pH of a neutral solution such as pure water.
- 3rd August 2006State whether the Earth casting a shadow that blocks sunlight from reaching the Moon is called a solar eclipse or a lunar eclipse.
- 4th August 2006Name the type of teeth used mainly for cutting food.
- 5th August 2006State why it is good practice to run a quick preliminary (trial) experiment before starting the main investigation.
- 6th August 2006A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how the writer builds a sense of danger across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 7th August 2006A travel article is written for a general newspaper audience rather than for expert climbers. How might its vocabulary and level of detail differ from a specialist mountaineering magazine?
- 8th August 2006In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The submersible's hull must withstand immense pressure at such depths, where a single flaw could prove catastrophic.' What does 'catastrophic' mean here?
- 9th August 2006Name the technique used in this slogan: Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.
- 10th August 2006Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for 'the alleyway at dusk.'
- 11th August 2006Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: "The station was BUSY."
- 12th August 2006Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for "the fruit stall."
- 13th August 2006A coin is flipped 200 times and lands on heads 118 times. Calculate the relative frequency of landing on heads.
- 14th August 2006A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 5 cm and 12 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 15th August 2006The nth term of a sequence is 4n + 3. Work out the 20th term.
- 16th August 2006Work out 84 / 12.
- 17th August 2006Two hockey teams recorded the number of goals they scored in their last 5 matches. Team A: 2, 3, 2, 4, 4. Team B: 0, 1, 5, 6, 3. Compare the two teams by working out the mean and the range for each.
- 18th August 2006Simplify sqrt(50) - sqrt(8), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(2).
- 19th August 2006p = 5, q = -2. Work out the value of 3p + q.
- 20th August 2006A bag has 4 yellow and 6 purple counters. Find the probability of picking a purple counter.
- 21st August 2006Write 3/8 as a percentage.
- 22nd August 2006A pupil views onion cells under a microscope after adding a drop of iodine solution to the slide. State why the iodine solution was added.
- 23rd August 2006A student dissolves ammonium nitrate in water and the temperature of the solution falls. State whether this process is exothermic or endothermic.
- 24th August 2006State one reason, other than cost, why a country might want to reduce its reliance on non-renewable energy resources such as coal and oil.
- 25th August 2006State whether a frog is classified as a vertebrate or an invertebrate, and give a reason.
- 26th August 2006Name the process by which plants lose water vapour from their leaves.
- 27th August 2006Name the process used to neutralise an acid using an alkali.
- 28th August 2006This sentence contains a comma splice: The match ended in a draw, both teams were happy. Correct it in one way.
- 29th August 2006In an extract, a character 'set down his tools without a word and walked out into the rain.' What might this action suggest about his state of mind?
- 30th August 2006A writer describes a clock as "ticking its patient warning through the empty hall." Name the poetic technique used here.
- 31st August 2006Punctuate this exchange, adding inverted commas, capital letters and any other punctuation needed: are you sure about this asked Leo his sister nodded without looking up