Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
April 2009 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in April 2009, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in April 2009
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 2009Give the chemical symbol for the element sodium.
- 2nd April 2009State the name of a reaction in which a more reactive metal displaces a less reactive metal from a compound.
- 3rd April 2009A question is worth 4 marks and asks you to explain the effect of a writer's language in a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 4th April 2009Which punctuation mark correctly joins these two related sentences into one: 'The rain finally stopped ___ the match could go ahead after all.'
- 5th April 2009Add a hyphen where needed: a ten year old girl won the competition.
- 6th April 2009Explain why a poet might end a poem about autumn with a single short line, such as 'Then, silence.'
- 7th April 2009A poem has three-line stanzas with no rhyme at all. What effect might this irregular structure create?
- 8th April 2009A climber 'gripped the rope until his knuckles turned white, then made himself let go, one finger at a time.' What does this suggest about the difficulty of what he is doing?
- 9th April 2009Add an apostrophe in the correct place: The three girls coats were left on the bus. (There is one coat per girl, and three girls in total.)
- 10th April 2009Which word means the same as "enormous" in a sentence describing a huge shipwreck: "colossal", "tiny", "narrow" or "shallow"?
- 11th April 2009Without a calculator, work out 15% of 180.
- 12th April 2009Work out 9 x 8.
- 13th April 2009Work out (4 + 3) x (9 - 5).
- 14th April 2009y is directly proportional to x^2. When x = 4, y = 32. Work out y when x = 6.
- 15th April 2009Write the ratio 18:24 in its simplest form.
- 16th April 2009Work out 8.4 x 6, using a written method.
- 17th April 2009A rectangular field measuring 60 m by 40 m is to be divided into identical square plots, as large as possible, with no land left over. Work out the side length of each square plot, and the total number of plots.
- 18th April 2009State the order of rotational symmetry and the number of lines of symmetry of a regular pentagon.
- 19th April 2009Write the next two terms of the sequence: 3, 7, 11, 15, ...
- 20th April 2009Put these structures in the order air passes through them when breathing in, starting from the windpipe: alveoli, bronchi, trachea, bronchioles.
- 21st April 2009A piece of magnesium ribbon is added to silver nitrate solution. State whether a displacement reaction would occur, and explain why.
- 22nd April 2009Write the number 0.048706 to 2 significant figures.
- 23rd April 2009State the name of the rock type formed when magma cools and solidifies underground.
- 24th April 2009State the pH value of a neutral solution, such as pure water.
- 25th April 2009Amara is investigating how the mass of a paper cone affects how long it takes to fall from a fixed height. State the independent variable and the dependent variable in this investigation.
- 26th April 2009In a factual text, is the sentence "Hot air balloons were first flown in France in 1783" a fact or an opinion?
- 27th April 2009A poem repeats the phrase 'and still it climbed' at the end of every stanza. What is this technique called, and what might its effect be?
- 28th April 2009Find and copy one word from the phrase 'the old clock ticked its patient rhythm' that gives the clock a human quality.
- 29th April 2009Which punctuation mark correctly joins these two sentences without adding a joining word: 'The coach was late the pupils waited in the hall.'?
- 30th April 2009Choose the correct word: I'm not sure ___ my umbrella is. (where / were / we're)