Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
September 2009 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in September 2009, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in September 2009
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 2009120 pounds is shared between Leo and Maya in the ratio 3:5. Work out how much Maya receives.
- 2nd September 2009State two functions of the human skeleton.
- 3rd September 2009Describe the test for carbon dioxide gas, and state the positive result.
- 4th September 2009State one way, other than increasing the current, to increase the strength of an electromagnet made from a coil of wire around an iron core.
- 5th September 2009State what happens to the current in a series circuit if an extra identical bulb is added, assuming the battery voltage stays the same.
- 6th September 2009Name the organ system that carries electrical signals around the body to allow a fast reflex reaction, such as pulling a hand away from something hot.
- 7th September 2009A pupil measures the resultant force on an object as 0 N even though several forces are acting on it. State the term used to describe forces in this situation.
- 8th September 2009State the name given to a value read from a graph that lies between two points that were actually measured.
- 9th September 2009In an extract, a climber "kept checking the rope, tugging it twice before every step." What does this suggest about the climber?
- 10th September 2009In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The team faced constant setbacks - equipment failure, bad weather and dwindling supplies chipped away at morale.' What does 'dwindling' mean here?
- 11th September 2009A biography states that a scientist 'spent every evening after his factory shift teaching himself chemistry from borrowed textbooks.' What can a reader infer about this person from these facts?
- 12th September 2009An article opens with a short story about one seabird found tangled in plastic, before giving any wider statistics. What is this technique called?
- 13th September 2009Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: watch your step said the warden the path is icy
- 14th September 2009Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "Although the platform was crowded, Amara found a seat by the window."
- 15th September 2009Identify the fronted adverbial in this sentence: "Slowly, the shutters were raised one by one."
- 16th September 2009A fair six-sided dice is rolled once. Find the probability of rolling a number greater than 4.
- 17th September 2009Write 3.6 x 10^-3 as an ordinary number.
- 18th September 2009A laptop valued at 900 pounds depreciates by 12% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 19th September 2009Work out -15 + 4 x (-2).
- 20th September 2009A researcher wants to find the average pocket money received by pupils at a school, so she surveys only the pupils waiting outside the head teacher's office. Give one reason this is likely to produce a biased sample.
- 21st September 2009A triangle is inscribed in a circle so that one of its sides is a diameter of the circle. Explain, using a circle theorem, why the angle at the third vertex (opposite that side) must be 90 degrees.
- 22nd September 2009Here are the first four terms of a sequence: 7, 11, 15, 19. Find an expression for the nth term.
- 23rd September 2009Find the mean of 14, 18, 22, 16 and 20.
- 24th September 2009A jacket priced at 84 pounds is increased by 25% for the winter season. Calculate the new price.
- 25th September 2009On a microscope, the eyepiece lens has a magnification of x10 and the objective lens in use has a magnification of x40. Calculate the total magnification.
- 26th September 2009In the disappearing cross experiment, a student times how long it takes for a cross under the flask to disappear from view. Explain why a shorter time indicates a faster reaction.
- 27th September 2009State the unit normally used for speed in physics, and name one other unit that speed could also correctly be measured in.
- 28th September 2009Two forces of 10 N and 10 N act on an object in exactly opposite directions. Calculate the resultant force.
- 29th September 2009A solid is heated until it turns directly into a gas without becoming a liquid first. Name this change of state.
- 30th September 2009State the approximate time it takes for light from the Sun to reach the Earth.