Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
October 2006 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in October 2006, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in October 2006
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2006A basket contains 15 lemons and 25 limes. Write the ratio of lemons to limes in its simplest form.
- 2nd October 2006Calculate 56 + 29.
- 3rd October 2006Work out 20 - 3 x 4.
- 4th October 2006A number is tripled and then 5 is added, giving 32. Form an equation and find the number.
- 5th October 2006Simplify the ratio 18:24 to its simplest form.
- 6th October 2006In the food chain 'grass, rabbit, fox', name the primary consumer.
- 7th October 2006State one physical property that distinguishes a typical non-metal from a typical metal.
- 8th October 2006State the law of reflection.
- 9th October 2006A student shouts and hears an echo 0.6 s later off a distant wall. Given the speed of sound in air is 340 m/s, calculate the total distance travelled by the sound (there and back).
- 10th October 2006State one function of the human skeleton, other than support.
- 11th October 2006Name the enzyme found in saliva that begins the digestion of starch in the mouth.
- 12th October 2006In an extract, a character 'chewed his lip and stared at his shoes.' What does this suggest about the character's feelings?
- 13th October 2006Add a colon to this sentence in the correct place: The expedition needed three things warm clothing enough food and a reliable map.
- 14th October 2006Choose the correct word: There were ___ people at the concert than last year. (less / fewer)
- 15th October 2006Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The branches creaked and clawed at the window'?
- 16th October 2006Find and copy one word from 'the anvil's patient, unmoving weight' that gives the anvil a human quality.
- 17th October 2006Which word class is 'desperately' in 'He desperately searched for a handhold'?
- 18th October 2006Add an apostrophe in the correct place: The three girls coats were left on the bus. (There is one coat per girl, and three girls in total.)
- 19th October 2006A question asks you to "find and copy one phrase" meaning "completely dark." Which of these fits: "pitch black", "faintly lit", "clear blue" or "softly glowing"?
- 20th October 2006A cinema charges 6.50 pounds for an adult ticket and 4.20 pounds for a child ticket. A family buys tickets for 2 adults and 3 children. Work out the total cost, without using a calculator.
- 21st October 2006Convert 2 hours 15 minutes into minutes.
- 22nd October 2006Find 2/9 of 63.
- 23rd October 2006Write 5.4 x 10^4 as an ordinary number.
- 24th October 2006A recipe needs 250 g of flour to make 8 muffins. Work out how much flour is needed to make 20 muffins at the same recipe strength.
- 25th October 2006Write 0.72 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 26th October 2006A dice has its six faces numbered 1 to 6, arranged so opposite faces always add up to 7. The face showing 2 is on top, and the face showing 3 is facing you. Work out which number is on the bottom face, and which number is on the face directly opposite the one facing you.
- 27th October 2006A cuboid has dimensions 6 cm by 4 cm by 3 cm. Calculate its volume.
- 28th October 2006Write the next two terms of the sequence: 3, 7, 11, 15, ...
- 29th October 2006State one way bile helps with the digestion of fats.
- 30th October 2006In the reactivity series, state which is more reactive: zinc or copper.
- 31st October 2006Write the number 0.048706 to 2 significant figures.