Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
October 2007 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in October 2007, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in October 2007
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2007A triangle has a base of 14 cm and a perpendicular height of 5 cm. Calculate its area.
- 2nd October 2007Rearrange the formula P = 2l + 2w to make w the subject.
- 3rd October 2007A food sample turns from blue to brick-red when Benedict's solution is added and the mixture is heated. State which nutrient this positive result shows is present.
- 4th October 2007State the method used to extract aluminium from its ore, and explain why this method is needed rather than reduction with carbon.
- 5th October 2007Define the terms 'solute' and 'solvent'.
- 6th October 2007Name the force that causes objects to fall towards the ground when dropped.
- 7th October 2007A pupil measures the volume of a gas produced in a reaction every 30 seconds. State whether the volume of gas is the independent or the dependent variable.
- 8th October 2007A student measures the length of a metal rod five times: 62.1 cm, 62.4 cm, 62.0 cm, 62.5 cm, 62.2 cm. Calculate the mean length of the rod.
- 9th October 2007Which word means the same as "ascend" in a sentence about a balloon rising into the sky: "climb", "sink", "hover" or "spin"?
- 10th October 2007Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The waves whispered along the shingle shore'?
- 11th October 2007What is the name for a poem written without a regular rhyme scheme or fixed rhythm?
- 12th October 2007Choose the correct homophone: You should always ___ your times tables before a test. (practice / practise)
- 13th October 2007Choose the correct word: ___ leaving their bags by the door. (Their / There / They're)
- 14th October 2007Find and copy one word from 'the fox paused, listening to the city's held breath' that gives the city a human quality.
- 15th October 2007A travel article is written for a general newspaper audience rather than for expert climbers. How might its vocabulary and level of detail differ from a specialist mountaineering magazine?
- 16th October 2007On a distance-time graph, a cyclist's journey is shown as a horizontal line for 15 minutes. What does this tell you about the cyclist during this time?
- 17th October 2007A survey asked 20 people how many pets they own: 5 people own 0 pets, 8 own 1 pet, 4 own 2 pets, and 3 own 3 pets. Work out the mean number of pets owned.
- 18th October 2007Work out 3/4 + 1/6, giving your answer as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 19th October 2007A recipe for 8 people uses flour, sugar and butter in the ratio 4 : 3 : 1 by weight, totalling 800 g. Work out how many grams of sugar are needed to make the recipe for 12 people.
- 20th October 2007A circle has a radius of 10 cm. Work out the area of a sector with an angle of 72 degrees at the centre, giving your answer to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 21st October 2007Solve x^2 = 7x - 12.
- 22nd October 2007Solve x^2 + 3x - 18 = 0.
- 23rd October 2007Find 3^3 + sqrt(64).
- 24th October 2007120 pounds is shared between Leo and Maya in the ratio 3:5. Work out how much Maya receives.
- 25th October 2007Name the male gamete and the female gamete involved in human reproduction.
- 26th October 2007Name the acid that produces nitrate salts.
- 27th October 2007A torch bulb has a resistance of 15 ohms and a current of 0.2 A flows through it. Use V = I x R to calculate the voltage across the bulb.
- 28th October 2007Name the salt formed when hydrochloric acid reacts with sodium hydroxide.
- 29th October 2007A pupil wants to measure the current flowing through a lamp in a circuit. Name the piece of apparatus she needs, and state whether it should be connected in series or in parallel with the lamp.
- 30th October 2007A pupil applies a force of 10 N to move an object 2 m in the direction of the force. Use work done = force x distance to calculate the work done.
- 31st October 2007A student wears safety goggles when heating a test tube of liquid over a Bunsen burner. State the hazard that the goggles help protect against.