Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
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.
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.
- 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.
- 2nd September 2008Write 0.72 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 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?
- 4th September 2008A cuboid has dimensions 6 cm by 4 cm by 3 cm. Calculate its volume.
- 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?
- 6th September 2008Name the enzyme that digests starch, and state the product it is broken down into.
- 7th September 2008Name the gas released when fossil fuels are burned that is the main cause of the enhanced greenhouse effect.
- 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.
- 9th September 2008Explain one way in which a polar bear's thick white fur helps it survive in the Arctic.
- 10th September 2008Name the force that opposes the motion of an object moving through air.
- 11th September 2008Which piece of apparatus should be used to measure the temperature of a liquid in an experiment?
- 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?
- 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.
- 14th September 2008Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The wind whispered through the willow'?
- 15th September 2008Add the missing apostrophe: The three teachers offices were being redecorated. (There are three teachers, each with their own office.)
- 16th September 2008Add a semicolon in the correct place: The bus was late the queue grew longer by the minute.
- 17th September 2008Explain why a poet might choose soft, hissing sounds, sibilance, to describe a fox moving at night, rather than harsh, hard sounds.
- 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?
- 19th September 2008A straight line passes through (0, 5) and has a gradient of -2. Write down its equation.
- 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.)
- 21st September 2008Convert the recurring decimal 0.3636... (where the digits 36 recur) to a fraction in its simplest form.
- 22nd September 2008Two numbers are in the ratio 4 : 7. Their sum is 66. Work out the difference between the two numbers.
- 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.
- 24th September 2008Factorise x^2 - 9x + 20.
- 25th September 2008Expand and simplify (2x - 3)(x + 4).
- 26th September 2008A car's value depreciates from 18,000 pounds to 14,400 pounds in one year. Work out the percentage decrease.
- 27th September 2008Work out 9 x 7.
- 28th September 2008State the name of the structure that allows oxygen and nutrients to pass from a mother's blood to her developing foetus.
- 29th September 2008Name the salt produced when zinc reacts with sulfuric acid.
- 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.