Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
January 2008 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in January 2008, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in January 2008
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2008Name the food group that provides the body with the most energy per gram.
- 2nd January 2008State the property used to arrange the elements in order in the modern periodic table.
- 3rd January 2008A cliff is 170 m from a person who claps and hears the echo. Use distance = speed x time and a speed of sound of 340 m/s to calculate how long after the clap the echo is heard.
- 4th January 2008State the number of protons found in an atom of oxygen, given that oxygen's atomic number is 8.
- 5th January 2008Calculate the mean of these three repeat readings of a force: 4.2 N, 4.6 N, 4.4 N.
- 6th January 2008A circuit has a total resistance of 12 ohm and a current of 0.5 A flowing through it. Use V = I x R to calculate the voltage across the circuit.
- 7th January 2008A writer describes a bell as 'clanging its complaint into the empty square.' Name the poetic or literary technique used here.
- 8th January 2008Add the correct negative prefix to make this word mean 'not legal': legal.
- 9th January 2008Choose the correct word: We had ___ time to finish the test than we expected. (less / fewer)
- 10th January 2008What is the name for a poem written in stanzas of two lines each?
- 11th January 2008Explain why a poet might choose short, one-syllable words to describe the strike of a hammer, rather than longer, softer words.
- 12th January 2008A climber notices 'his fingers had gone from cold to strangely warm.' What might this detail suggest to an alert reader?
- 13th January 2008Correct the punctuation in this sentence, which reports direct speech: she shouted watch out and pulled her brother back from the road
- 14th January 2008A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how a writer builds a sense of danger across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 15th January 2008The probability that a spinner lands on red is 0.35. Work out the probability that it does not land on red.
- 16th January 2008Work out 40% of 65.
- 17th January 2008A jacket costs 65 pounds. Work out the cost after a 20% discount.
- 18th January 2008p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 8, p = 9. Work out p when q = 6.
- 19th January 2008Write 0.35 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 20th January 2008Work out 5/6 of 90.
- 21st January 2008A cube with side length 4 cm is built from 64 unit cubes, each 1 cm x 1 cm x 1 cm. The outside of the large cube is painted red, then it is taken apart into the 64 unit cubes again. How many of the unit cubes have exactly two faces painted red?
- 22nd January 2008A rectangle has length 9.2 cm and width 6.8 cm. Calculate its perimeter.
- 23rd January 2008The nth term of a sequence is 5n - 2. Find the 12th term.
- 24th January 2008Complete the word equation for aerobic respiration: glucose + oxygen produces ___ + ___.
- 25th January 2008State one way that painting a garden gate helps to prevent it from rusting.
- 26th January 2008Name the organs whose main job is to filter waste products out of the blood and produce urine.
- 27th January 2008Name the continuous process by which rocks are broken down, transported, deposited, and can eventually reform into new rock types.
- 28th January 2008Name the organ in the human body that produces insulin.
- 29th January 2008A student reads the volume of liquid in a measuring cylinder. The bottom of the meniscus lines up exactly halfway between the 22 cm^3 and 24 cm^3 graduation marks. State the volume of liquid.
- 30th January 2008A non-fiction text about volcanoes uses the heading "How an Eruption Happens." What is the purpose of this heading?
- 31st January 2008What is the name for a poem written in three-line stanzas?