Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
April 2008 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in April 2008, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in April 2008
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 2008Name the technique used to separate sand from a mixture of sand and water.
- 2nd April 2008Ben has a mass of 12 kg. Calculate his weight on Earth. Use weight = mass x gravitational field strength, with g = 10 N/kg.
- 3rd April 2008Name the process by which cells release energy from glucose using oxygen.
- 4th April 2008Name one renewable energy resource.
- 5th April 2008Name the part of a plant cell, not found in an animal cell, that carries out photosynthesis.
- 6th April 2008A pupil's teacher suggests using a data logger to measure temperature every second during an experiment, instead of a pupil reading a thermometer every minute. Suggest one advantage of using a data logger in this experiment.
- 7th April 2008Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: "The cellar was DARK."
- 8th April 2008Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'Although the fog was thick, the fishermen still set out.'
- 9th April 2008In an extract, the writer moves from describing the busy platform to focusing closely on one child crying by the ticket barrier. What effect might this shift in focus create?
- 10th April 2008Find and copy one word from 'the corridor swallowed the beam of her torch' that gives the corridor a human or animal-like quality.
- 11th April 2008A poem describes a train as having a "rattling, roaring, rumbling" journey. Name the technique shown by these three words together.
- 12th April 2008An article opens with a short story about one pupil who found a favourite book by accident, before making any wider argument. What is this technique called?
- 13th April 2008A poem has six lines in each stanza with no regular rhyme pattern. What is this style called?
- 14th April 2008Calculate the area of a triangle with base 12 cm and height 9 cm.
- 15th April 2008Work out 12 x 7.
- 16th April 2008Work out 7 x 8 + 6 x 3.
- 17th April 2008Without a calculator, work out 45% of 160.
- 18th April 2008Ade and Bo share 56 sweets in the ratio 3:4. How many sweets does Bo receive?
- 19th April 2008108 pounds is shared between Amir and Bea in the ratio 4:5.
- 20th April 2008Write 0.4 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 21st April 2008Write 5/8 as a decimal.
- 22nd April 2008Work out 7 x 9 - 4 x 5.
- 23rd April 2008State one way the xylem is adapted for transporting water up a plant.
- 24th April 2008In a chromatography experiment, the solvent front travels 10 cm and a dye spot travels 4 cm. Calculate the Rf value of the dye.
- 25th April 2008A ray of light travels from air into a glass block. State whether the ray bends towards the normal or away from the normal as it enters the glass.
- 26th April 2008Write the word equation for photosynthesis.
- 27th April 2008State the name given to a chemical reaction that releases heat energy to the surroundings.
- 28th April 2008State the products formed when a metal reacts with an acid.
- 29th April 2008Which word means the same as 'ancient' in a sentence describing an old, crumbling castle: 'timeworn', 'modern', 'spacious' or 'lively'?
- 30th April 2008Choose the correct word to complete the sentence: Regular ___ at the piano will improve your technique. (practice / practise)