Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
November 2006 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in November 2006, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in November 2006
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 2006State the name of the rock type formed when magma cools and solidifies underground.
- 2nd November 2006Write the word equation for photosynthesis.
- 3rd November 2006Which piece of apparatus should be used to measure the temperature of a liquid in an experiment?
- 4th November 2006In the same text, is the sentence "There is nothing more thrilling than floating silently above the countryside" a fact or an opinion?
- 5th November 2006Find and copy one word from 'the tide dragged its heavy silver chain across the sand' that gives the tide a human or animal-like quality.
- 6th November 2006Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The wind whispered through the willow'?
- 7th November 2006Add the missing apostrophe: The three teachers offices were being redecorated. (There are three teachers, each with their own office.)
- 8th November 2006Add a semicolon in the correct place: The bus was late the queue grew longer by the minute.
- 9th November 2006Explain why a poet might choose soft, hissing sounds, sibilance, to describe a fox moving at night, rather than harsh, hard sounds.
- 10th November 2006A magazine article about volcanoes is broken into sections titled 'How volcanoes form', 'Famous eruptions' and 'Living near a volcano'. What are these called, and what is their purpose?
- 11th November 2006Write down the coordinates of the point 3 units to the left of the origin and 5 units up.
- 12th November 2006Find the midpoint of the line segment joining A(-3, 5) and B(7, -1).
- 13th November 2006Convert the recurring decimal 0.3636... (where the digits 36 recur) to a fraction in its simplest form.
- 14th November 2006A shop increases a price by 25%, then later reduces the new price by 20%. Work out the overall percentage change from the original price.
- 15th November 2006An open-top fish tank, with no lid, is a cuboid with length 50 cm, width 30 cm and height 25 cm. Work out the total area of glass needed to make the tank.
- 16th November 2006Factorise x^2 - 9x + 20.
- 17th November 2006Expand and simplify (2x - 3)(x + 4).
- 18th November 2006A car's value depreciates from 18,000 pounds to 14,400 pounds in one year. Work out the percentage decrease.
- 19th November 2006Work out 9 x 7.
- 20th November 2006Name the organelle in a plant cell that contains chlorophyll and is the site of photosynthesis.
- 21st November 2006State the colour universal indicator turns in a strong alkali.
- 22nd November 2006State whether the north pole of one bar magnet placed near the north pole of a second bar magnet will attract or repel.
- 23rd November 2006A solution has pH 10. State whether it is acidic, neutral or alkaline.
- 24th November 2006A diver swims from the surface down to a depth of 10 m in a swimming pool. State how the water pressure on her body changes as she swims deeper, and give a reason.
- 25th November 2006State the word equation for aerobic respiration.
- 26th November 2006State the name given to a value read from a graph beyond the range of the data that was actually measured.
- 27th November 2006Which word means the same as "exhausted" in a sentence describing tired climbers: "drained", "energetic", "cheerful" or "restless"?
- 28th November 2006A biography states that a person 'taught herself to read at six using her grandfather's newspapers, and published her first book by twenty.' What can a reader infer about this person's character from these facts?
- 29th November 2006A travel brochure and a science textbook both describe coral reefs. Which is more likely to use exaggerated, emotive language, and why?
- 30th November 2006A leaflet states 'You could help save a hundred bottles a year.' Which word directly addresses the reader?