Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
February 2009 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in February 2009, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in February 2009
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 2009Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: fresh bread the baker called still warm from the oven
- 2nd February 2009A coin is flipped 200 times and lands on heads 118 times. Calculate the relative frequency of landing on heads.
- 3rd February 2009In a right-angled triangle, the angle at A is 32 degrees and the adjacent side is 9 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse, to 1 decimal place.
- 4th February 2009A cylindrical tin has radius 4 cm and height 15 cm. Work out its volume, to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 5th February 2009Simplify the ratio 32:12.
- 6th February 2009A spinner can land on red, blue, green or yellow only. P(red) = 0.3, P(blue) = 0.25, P(green) = 0.2. Work out P(yellow).
- 7th February 2009The product of two consecutive positive integers is 132. Find the two integers.
- 8th February 2009Factorise fully 10x + 15.
- 9th February 2009Work out 2^5 - 3^3.
- 10th February 2009Write 3/8 as a percentage.
- 11th February 2009A cell has a real width of 0.02 mm. In a drawing, the same cell is shown 4 mm wide. Calculate the magnification of the drawing.
- 12th February 2009Explain, using collision theory, why crushing a solid into a powder increases the rate of reaction.
- 13th February 2009State one reason, other than cost, why a country might want to reduce its reliance on non-renewable energy resources such as coal and oil.
- 14th February 2009State whether a frog is classified as a vertebrate or an invertebrate, and give a reason.
- 15th February 2009Name the group in the periodic table that contains helium, neon and argon.
- 16th February 2009A pupil measures a mass of 3.5 kg on a set of scales. Convert this mass to grams.
- 17th February 2009This sentence contains a comma splice: The match ended in a draw, both teams were happy. Correct it in one way.
- 18th February 2009A writer describes sawdust as 'settling like a light snowfall over every surface.' Name the technique used.
- 19th February 2009In an extract, a character "kept glancing at the door and twisting the strap of her bag." What does this suggest about the character's feelings?
- 20th February 2009Write one short sentence (no more than five words) suitable for a moment of sudden shock in a story.
- 21st February 2009Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: The gates creaked open.
- 22nd February 2009What is the effect of directly addressing an audience as 'you' in a speech?
- 23rd February 2009A campaign letter opens with a short, true story about one family affected by flooding, before giving any statistics. What is this technique called, and why might a writer use it first?
- 24th February 2009Express 60 as a product of its prime factors, then use this to find the lowest common multiple (LCM) of 60 and 24.
- 25th February 2009Write 0.00042 in standard form.
- 26th February 2009A cafe sells 3 coffees at 2.40 pounds each and 2 teas at 1.60 pounds each. Work out the total cost, without a calculator.
- 27th February 2009y is directly proportional to x^2. When x = 3, y = 45. Work out y when x = 5.
- 28th February 2009A survey asked 30 people how many siblings they have: 9 have 0, 12 have 1, 6 have 2, 3 have 3. Work out the mean number of siblings.