Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
August 2009 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in August 2009, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in August 2009
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2009In an extract, a diver "checked her air gauge twice in under a minute." What does this suggest about how she is feeling?
- 2nd August 2009A charity bake sale raises 200 pounds, split between three charities in the ratio 3 : 2 : 5. Work out the amount the largest share receives.
- 3rd August 2009Simplify the ratio 45:30.
- 4th August 2009Write 5:20 as a ratio in its simplest form.
- 5th August 2009A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 9 cm and 40 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 6th August 2009A jacket costs 64 pounds. It is reduced by 15% in a sale. Work out the sale price.
- 7th August 2009A jug holds 1.8 litres. Work out how many millilitres this is.
- 8th August 2009A regular polygon has an exterior angle of 24 degrees. Work out how many sides the polygon has.
- 9th August 2009A triangle has a base of 14 cm and a perpendicular height of 5 cm. Calculate its area.
- 10th August 2009Using the formula v = u + at, find v when u = 5, a = 3 and t = 4.
- 11th August 2009Name the substance that builds up in muscles during anaerobic respiration and causes fatigue.
- 12th August 2009Name the two substances that must both be present for iron to rust.
- 13th August 2009A pupil rubs a plastic rod with a cloth, giving the rod a negative electric charge. She then holds the rod near small pieces of paper on a table. State what she would observe, and explain why, in terms of electric charge.
- 14th August 2009In the food chain grass, rabbit, fox, where grass is eaten by rabbits and rabbits are eaten by foxes, name the organism that is the producer.
- 15th August 2009State the name of the process by which light rays bend as they pass from air into glass.
- 16th August 2009A student measures the length of a metal rod five times: 62.1 cm, 62.4 cm, 62.0 cm, 62.5 cm, 62.2 cm. Calculate the mean length of the rod.
- 17th August 2009Which word means the same as "ascend" in a sentence about a balloon rising into the sky: "climb", "sink", "hover" or "spin"?
- 18th August 2009Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The waves whispered along the shingle shore'?
- 19th August 2009What is the name for a poem written without a regular rhyme scheme or fixed rhythm?
- 20th August 2009Choose the correct homophone: You should always ___ your times tables before a test. (practice / practise)
- 21st August 2009Choose the correct word: ___ leaving their bags by the door. (Their / There / They're)
- 22nd August 2009Find and copy one word from 'the fox paused, listening to the city's held breath' that gives the city a human quality.
- 23rd August 2009Give one feature, other than headings, that a factual magazine article might use to help organise information for the reader.
- 24th August 2009Find the midpoint of the line segment joining (-4, 2) and (6, -8).
- 25th August 2009A car valued at 12,000 pounds depreciates by 15% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 26th August 2009Work out 3/4 + 1/6, giving your answer as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 27th August 2009After a 12% pay rise, Priya's monthly salary is 2,240 pounds. Work out her monthly salary before the pay rise.
- 28th August 2009On a map with a scale of 1 : 25,000, two villages are 6.8 cm apart. Work out the real-life distance between the villages, in kilometres.
- 29th August 2009Solve x^2 = 7x - 12.
- 30th August 2009Solve x^2 + 3x - 18 = 0.
- 31st August 2009Find 3^3 + sqrt(64).