Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
February 2007 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in February 2007, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in February 2007
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 2007State the name of a reaction in which a more reactive metal displaces a less reactive metal from a compound.
- 2nd February 2007A character says 'I'm fine' through gritted teeth, then slams the door. Explain what the contrast between the character's words and actions suggests.
- 3rd February 2007Correct the spelling error caused by a missing doubled consonant: 'I am hopping to finish my homework before dinner' (meaning expecting, not jumping).
- 4th February 2007Correct the tense error: 'Last week, she swims to the buoy and back without stopping.'
- 5th February 2007A poem has irregular line lengths and no rhyme scheme, but a steady, insistent rhythm created by repeating the same three-syllable phrase. What technique creates this effect?
- 6th February 2007What is the name for a poem with no regular rhyme scheme or fixed rhythm?
- 7th February 2007A character 'counted his steps instead of looking down.' What does this suggest about his feelings?
- 8th February 2007This sentence contains a comma splice: The rain started early, we cancelled the picnic. Correct it in one way.
- 9th February 2007A writer describes a current as "dragging greedy fingers along the wreck." Name the technique used here.
- 10th February 2007Without a calculator, work out 15% of 180.
- 11th February 2007A box of 15 chocolates costs 4.50 pounds. Work out the cost of one chocolate.
- 12th February 2007Work out 56 / 7.
- 13th February 2007In a right-angled triangle, the angle at A is 27 degrees and the opposite side is 6 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse, to 1 decimal place.
- 14th February 2007Work out 3/4 of 148.
- 15th February 2007Share 156 pounds between two people in the ratio 7:6.
- 16th February 2007A rectangular field measuring 60 m by 40 m is to be divided into identical square plots, as large as possible, with no land left over. Work out the side length of each square plot, and the total number of plots.
- 17th February 2007Convert 4.2 metres into centimetres.
- 18th February 2007Using the formula v = u + at, find v when u = 5, a = 3 and t = 4.
- 19th February 2007Put these structures in the order air passes through them when breathing in, starting from the windpipe: alveoli, bronchi, trachea, bronchioles.
- 20th February 2007A piece of magnesium ribbon is added to silver nitrate solution. State whether a displacement reaction would occur, and explain why.
- 21st February 2007A pupil rubs a plastic rod with a cloth, giving the rod a negative electric charge. She then holds the rod near small pieces of paper on a table. State what she would observe, and explain why, in terms of electric charge.
- 22nd February 2007In the food chain grass, rabbit, fox, where grass is eaten by rabbits and rabbits are eaten by foxes, name the organism that is the producer.
- 23rd February 2007State the pH value of a neutral solution, such as pure water.
- 24th February 2007A thermometer has graduations every 1 degree C. A student takes a single temperature reading of 40 degrees C. Calculate the percentage uncertainty in this reading.
- 25th February 2007A text about coral reefs moves from explaining what coral is, to how reefs form, to why they are under threat. What is this structure called?
- 26th February 2007Explain why a poet might use short, one-word lines to describe a sudden event, such as an accident.
- 27th February 2007A poem compares grief to 'a stone carried in the pocket, never quite forgotten.' Name this technique.
- 28th February 2007Correct the tense error: Last week, the choir practises for two hours every evening.