Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
January 2007 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in January 2007, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in January 2007
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2007A car travels 189 miles using 7 gallons of fuel. Work out the miles per gallon.
- 2nd January 2007A pair of trainers costs 45 pounds. The price increases by 20%. Work out the new price.
- 3rd January 2007A bag contains 5 red counters and 7 blue counters. Two counters are taken from the bag at random, one after the other, without replacement. Find the probability that both counters are the same colour.
- 4th January 2007Put these organs in the order food passes through them during digestion: large intestine, mouth, stomach, small intestine, oesophagus.
- 5th January 2007A pupil finds the volume of an irregular stone using a measuring cylinder. The water level rises from 35 cm^3 to 52 cm^3 when the stone is added. The stone has a mass of 42.5 g. Calculate the density of the stone, giving your answer to 2 significant figures.
- 6th January 2007State whether the main force acting when a compass needle points north is a contact force or a non-contact force.
- 7th January 2007A ray of light travels from air into a glass block and bends towards the normal at the boundary. Name this effect.
- 8th January 2007Name one structure found in a plant cell that is not found in an animal cell.
- 9th January 2007A wave has a wavelength of 2 m and a frequency of 5 Hz. Use wave speed = frequency x wavelength to calculate its speed.
- 10th January 2007A pupil's results table is missing units for one column, headed only 'Volume'. State why it is important to always include a unit in a column heading or with a numerical answer.
- 11th January 2007Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: dont go any further whispered grace something isnt right down here
- 12th January 2007Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The fog rolled in, and the harbour lights dimmed to a blur.'
- 13th January 2007A five-mark question asks you to explain how the writer builds a sense of frustration across the whole extract. What should your answer cover?
- 14th January 2007A question is worth 3 marks and asks you to explain the effect of a description. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
- 15th January 2007If a poem's rhythm becomes short and broken in its final stanza after being steady throughout, what might this suggest?
- 16th January 2007Name the technique used in this line: New worlds. New characters. New ideas, every single time.
- 17th January 2007If a poem starts with long, flowing lines and ends with very short, clipped lines, what effect might this create?
- 18th January 2007Calculate the perimeter of a rectangle measuring 14 cm by 8.5 cm.
- 19th January 2007Simplify 6a + 9 - 2a - 4.
- 20th January 2007Simplify 4(2x - 3) + 5.
- 21st January 2007A stall sells 4 sandwiches at 2.20 pounds each and 3 drinks at 1.10 pounds each. Work out the total cost, without a calculator.
- 22nd January 2007Write the ratio 16:24 in its simplest form.
- 23rd January 2007Work out 8 x 6.
- 24th January 2007Find 3/5 of 45.
- 25th January 2007Work out 15 x 14, using a written method.
- 26th January 2007Find 3/4 of 88.
- 27th January 2007Complete the word equation for photosynthesis: carbon dioxide + water produces ___ + ___.
- 28th January 2007Explain why a pencil, not a pen, must be used to draw the baseline on chromatography paper.
- 29th January 2007Put these bodies in order of their distance from the Sun, starting with the closest: Mars, Mercury, Earth, Venus.
- 30th January 2007State whether elements in the same group of the periodic table have similar or very different chemical properties.
- 31st January 2007Give the chemical symbol for the element sodium.