Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
May 2009 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in May 2009, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in May 2009
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2009A poem is written in a single, unbroken stanza with no rhyme. What effect might this create?
- 2nd May 2009A magazine article about volcanoes is broken into sections titled 'How volcanoes form', 'Famous eruptions' and 'Living near a volcano'. What are these called, and what is their purpose?
- 3rd May 2009Write down the coordinates of the point 3 units to the left of the origin and 5 units up.
- 4th May 2009A bag contains 12 red counters, 15 blue counters and 9 green counters only. A counter is picked at random. Work out the probability that it is blue, giving your answer as a decimal to 3 significant figures.
- 5th May 2009Write 0.72 as a percentage.
- 6th May 2009Two joggers start together at a park gate. One returns to the gate every 18 minutes, the other every 24 minutes. After how many minutes will they next be at the gate together?
- 7th May 2009Two parallel lines are cut by a transversal. One of the angles formed is 63 degrees. State the size of the co-interior (allied) angle on the same side of the transversal, and explain why.
- 8th May 2009A chord divides a circle so that the angle at the centre is 130 degrees. Work out the angle at the circumference subtended by the same chord, on the major arc.
- 9th May 2009Factorise 2x^2 + 7x + 3.
- 10th May 2009A recipe uses 3 eggs for every 240 g of flour. Work out how many grams of flour are needed for 7 eggs, at the same ratio.
- 11th May 2009Work out 5 + 4 x 3 - 2.
- 12th May 2009Explain why muscles must work in antagonistic pairs rather than alone.
- 13th May 2009State whether a solution with pH 3 is acidic, neutral, or alkaline.
- 14th May 2009State whether the north pole of one bar magnet placed near the north pole of a second bar magnet will attract or repel.
- 15th May 2009A solution has pH 10. State whether it is acidic, neutral or alkaline.
- 16th May 2009A diver swims from the surface down to a depth of 10 m in a swimming pool. State how the water pressure on her body changes as she swims deeper, and give a reason.
- 17th May 2009Name the force that pulls all objects with mass towards each other, keeping planets in orbit.
- 18th May 2009On a graph of temperature (y-axis) against time (x-axis), a straight line rises from (0 s, 20 degrees C) to (40 s, 60 degrees C). Calculate the gradient of this line, and state what it represents.
- 19th May 2009A question asks you to "find and copy one word" meaning "extremely cold." Which of these fits: "freezing", "mild", "warm" or "humid"?
- 20th May 2009A factual article about volcanic islands is broken into sections titled 'How islands form', 'Life on the slopes' and 'Living with the risk'. What are these called, and what is their purpose?
- 21st May 2009You are asked to summarise a whole article in two sentences. What should you prioritise including?
- 22nd May 2009Is the claim 'recycling is clearly the most important thing you can do for the planet' a fact or an opinion?
- 23rd May 2009Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'Because the tide was rising, the children ran back up the beach.'
- 24th May 2009Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: mind the gap called the guard as the doors slid shut
- 25th May 2009Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "A trader called out his prices, and shoppers began to gather."
- 26th May 2009A survey of 40 students' favourite sport is shown in a pie chart. If football takes up a sector of 90 degrees, what percentage of students chose football?
- 27th May 2009p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 3, p = 20. Work out p when q = 12.
- 28th May 2009Find the midpoint of the line segment joining A(2, -3) and B(-6, 9).
- 29th May 2009A train journey of 175 km takes 2.5 hours at a constant speed. Work out the speed in km/h.
- 30th May 2009A scatter graph plots the number of hours 10 students spent revising against their test scores. The points show that more hours of revision is generally associated with a higher test score, though not perfectly. Describe the type of correlation shown, and state one thing this correlation does not prove.
- 31st May 2009Simplify (3x^2 y^3)^2 divided by 9x^3 y^4, giving your answer as simply as possible.