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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.

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January 2007

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 7-8

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.

  1. 1st January 2007A car travels 189 miles using 7 gallons of fuel. Work out the miles per gallon.
  2. 2nd January 2007A pair of trainers costs 45 pounds. The price increases by 20%. Work out the new price.
  3. 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.
  4. 4th January 2007Put these organs in the order food passes through them during digestion: large intestine, mouth, stomach, small intestine, oesophagus.
  5. 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.
  6. 6th January 2007State whether the main force acting when a compass needle points north is a contact force or a non-contact force.
  7. 7th January 2007A ray of light travels from air into a glass block and bends towards the normal at the boundary. Name this effect.
  8. 8th January 2007Name one structure found in a plant cell that is not found in an animal cell.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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
  12. 12th January 2007Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The fog rolled in, and the harbour lights dimmed to a blur.'
  13. 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?
  14. 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?
  15. 15th January 2007If a poem's rhythm becomes short and broken in its final stanza after being steady throughout, what might this suggest?
  16. 16th January 2007Name the technique used in this line: New worlds. New characters. New ideas, every single time.
  17. 17th January 2007If a poem starts with long, flowing lines and ends with very short, clipped lines, what effect might this create?
  18. 18th January 2007Calculate the perimeter of a rectangle measuring 14 cm by 8.5 cm.
  19. 19th January 2007Simplify 6a + 9 - 2a - 4.
  20. 20th January 2007Simplify 4(2x - 3) + 5.
  21. 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.
  22. 22nd January 2007Write the ratio 16:24 in its simplest form.
  23. 23rd January 2007Work out 8 x 6.
  24. 24th January 2007Find 3/5 of 45.
  25. 25th January 2007Work out 15 x 14, using a written method.
  26. 26th January 2007Find 3/4 of 88.
  27. 27th January 2007Complete the word equation for photosynthesis: carbon dioxide + water produces ___ + ___.
  28. 28th January 2007Explain why a pencil, not a pen, must be used to draw the baseline on chromatography paper.
  29. 29th January 2007Put these bodies in order of their distance from the Sun, starting with the closest: Mars, Mercury, Earth, Venus.
  30. 30th January 2007State whether elements in the same group of the periodic table have similar or very different chemical properties.
  31. 31st January 2007Give the chemical symbol for the element sodium.