Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
August 2008 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in August 2008, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in August 2008
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2008A character 'held his breath without realising it' as he entered a dark passage. What does this suggest about his feelings?
- 2nd August 2008A poem has four lines per stanza with the rhyme pattern ABAB. What is this pattern called?
- 3rd August 2008Is the claim 'reading is obviously more rewarding than scrolling through a screen' a fact or an opinion?
- 4th August 2008A question asks you to explain "how the poet's feelings towards winter change across the poem." What should your answer focus on?
- 5th August 2008Calculate the circumference of a circle with a radius of 9 cm. Use pi = 3.14.
- 6th August 2008Work out -4 - 7.
- 7th August 2008Find the highest common factor of 24 and 36.
- 8th August 2008Simplify 6x + 4 - 2x - 9.
- 9th August 2008A basket contains 15 lemons and 25 limes. Write the ratio of lemons to limes in its simplest form.
- 10th August 2008Calculate 56 + 29.
- 11th August 2008Work out 20 - 3 x 4.
- 12th August 2008A number is tripled and then 5 is added, giving 32. Form an equation and find the number.
- 13th August 2008Simplify the ratio 18:24 to its simplest form.
- 14th August 2008State one way a communicable disease differs from a non-communicable disease.
- 15th August 2008State the name given to a horizontal row of the periodic table.
- 16th August 2008An astronaut has a mass of 70 kg on Earth. State her mass on the Moon, and explain why her weight on the Moon is less than her weight on Earth.
- 17th August 2008Using the periodic table, state whether the element chlorine (Cl) is a metal or a non-metal.
- 18th August 2008A pupil records the mass of a beaker of ice every 2 minutes as it melts. State which variable is the independent variable in this investigation.
- 19th August 2008Name the three states of matter.
- 20th August 2008In an extract, a character 'chewed his lip and stared at his shoes.' What does this suggest about the character's feelings?
- 21st August 2008Add a colon to this sentence in the correct place: The expedition needed three things warm clothing enough food and a reliable map.
- 22nd August 2008Choose the correct word: There were ___ people at the concert than last year. (less / fewer)
- 23rd August 2008Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The branches creaked and clawed at the window'?
- 24th August 2008Find and copy one word from 'the anvil's patient, unmoving weight' that gives the anvil a human quality.
- 25th August 2008Which word class is 'desperately' in 'He desperately searched for a handhold'?
- 26th August 2008Choose the correct homophone to complete the sentence: The dog wagged ___ tail happily. (its / it's)
- 27th August 2008A question asks you to "find and copy one phrase" meaning "completely dark." Which of these fits: "pitch black", "faintly lit", "clear blue" or "softly glowing"?
- 28th August 2008Find 2/5 of 65.
- 29th August 2008Convert 2 hours 15 minutes into minutes.
- 30th August 2008Find 2/9 of 63.
- 31st August 2008Write 5.4 x 10^4 as an ordinary number.