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September 2008 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day

Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in September 2008, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.

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September 2008

30 sheets · 150 questions · Years 7-8

Every sheet in September 2008

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st September 2008A recipe needs 250 g of flour to make 8 muffins. Work out how much flour is needed to make 20 muffins at the same recipe strength.
  2. 2nd September 2008Write 0.72 as a fraction in its simplest form.
  3. 3rd September 2008In a class of 30 pupils, 18 play football, 14 play tennis, and 7 play both football and tennis. How many pupils play neither football nor tennis?
  4. 4th September 2008A cuboid has dimensions 6 cm by 4 cm by 3 cm. Calculate its volume.
  5. 5th September 2008A pattern of dots grows so that pattern 1 has 4 dots, pattern 2 has 7 dots, and pattern 3 has 10 dots. How many dots will pattern 6 have?
  6. 6th September 2008Name the enzyme that digests starch, and state the product it is broken down into.
  7. 7th September 2008Name the gas released when fossil fuels are burned that is the main cause of the enhanced greenhouse effect.
  8. 8th September 2008Explain how a person is able to see a book resting on a table in a well-lit room, in terms of light rays.
  9. 9th September 2008Explain one way in which a polar bear's thick white fur helps it survive in the Arctic.
  10. 10th September 2008Name the force that opposes the motion of an object moving through air.
  11. 11th September 2008Which piece of apparatus should be used to measure the temperature of a liquid in an experiment?
  12. 12th September 2008In the same text, is the sentence "There is nothing more thrilling than floating silently above the countryside" a fact or an opinion?
  13. 13th September 2008Find and copy one word from 'the tide dragged its heavy silver chain across the sand' that gives the tide a human or animal-like quality.
  14. 14th September 2008Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The wind whispered through the willow'?
  15. 15th September 2008Add the missing apostrophe: The three teachers offices were being redecorated. (There are three teachers, each with their own office.)
  16. 16th September 2008Add a semicolon in the correct place: The bus was late the queue grew longer by the minute.
  17. 17th September 2008Explain why a poet might choose soft, hissing sounds, sibilance, to describe a fox moving at night, rather than harsh, hard sounds.
  18. 18th September 2008A newspaper report about a school's new library states: 'The library, funded entirely by a single anonymous donation, opened its doors last Tuesday.' What retrieval detail answers the question, how was the library funded?
  19. 19th September 2008A straight line passes through (0, 5) and has a gradient of -2. Write down its equation.
  20. 20th September 2008A cylindrical water butt has a radius of 35 cm and a height of 120 cm. Work out its volume, giving your answer in cm^3 to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
  21. 21st September 2008Convert the recurring decimal 0.3636... (where the digits 36 recur) to a fraction in its simplest form.
  22. 22nd September 2008Two numbers are in the ratio 4 : 7. Their sum is 66. Work out the difference between the two numbers.
  23. 23rd September 2008A shape is made from a rectangle measuring 12 cm by 8 cm, with a right-angled triangle of base 6 cm and height 8 cm removed from one corner. Work out the area of the remaining shape.
  24. 24th September 2008Factorise x^2 - 9x + 20.
  25. 25th September 2008Expand and simplify (2x - 3)(x + 4).
  26. 26th September 2008A car's value depreciates from 18,000 pounds to 14,400 pounds in one year. Work out the percentage decrease.
  27. 27th September 2008Work out 9 x 7.
  28. 28th September 2008State the name of the structure that allows oxygen and nutrients to pass from a mother's blood to her developing foetus.
  29. 29th September 2008Name the salt produced when zinc reacts with sulfuric acid.
  30. 30th September 2008In a series circuit, an ammeter placed before a bulb reads 0.6 A. State the current a second ammeter, placed elsewhere in the same series circuit, would read.