Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
November 2009 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in November 2009, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in November 2009
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 2009Round 6.849 to 1 decimal place.
- 2nd November 2009A coat costs 80 pounds. Its price increases by 25%. Work out the new price.
- 3rd November 2009A prize of 240 pounds is shared between three friends in the ratio 1:2:5. Work out the smallest share.
- 4th November 2009A map has a scale of 1:20000. Two towns are 7cm apart on the map. Work out the real distance between them, in km.
- 5th November 2009Work out 3 + 6 x 2 - 4.
- 6th November 2009A recipe uses 2 eggs for every 150 g of flour. Work out how many grams of flour are needed for 5 eggs, at the same ratio.
- 7th November 2009Work out -3 - 6.
- 8th November 2009Work out -9 + 15.
- 9th November 2009Name the green pigment, found in chloroplasts, that absorbs light energy for photosynthesis.
- 10th November 2009Name the group of the periodic table that contains elements which are almost completely unreactive because their outer electron shell is full.
- 11th November 2009A red filter is held in front of a torch shining white light. State which colour of light passes through the filter.
- 12th November 2009State whether sound can travel through a vacuum (empty space), and give a reason.
- 13th November 2009Name the blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart.
- 14th November 2009Name the small intestine's main job in the digestive system.
- 15th November 2009A writer describes a bell as 'clanging its complaint into the empty square.' Name the poetic or literary technique used here.
- 16th November 2009Add the correct negative prefix to make this word mean 'not legal': legal.
- 17th November 2009Choose the correct word: We had ___ time to finish the test than we expected. (less / fewer)
- 18th November 2009What is the name for a poem written in stanzas of two lines each?
- 19th November 2009Explain why a poet might choose short, one-syllable words to describe the strike of a hammer, rather than longer, softer words.
- 20th November 2009A climber notices 'his fingers had gone from cold to strangely warm.' What might this detail suggest to an alert reader?
- 21st November 2009In the sentence 'The overexcited puppy chewed through the new shoe,' what word class is 'chewed'?
- 22nd November 2009A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how a writer builds a sense of danger across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 23rd November 2009Simplify 5x + 3y - 2x + 7y.
- 24th November 2009Work out 40% of 65.
- 25th November 2009A jacket costs 65 pounds. Work out the cost after a 20% discount.
- 26th November 2009p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 8, p = 9. Work out p when q = 6.
- 27th November 2009Write 0.35 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 28th November 2009Work out 5/6 of 90.
- 29th November 2009At a small maths club meeting, every one of the 8 members shakes hands with every other member exactly once. Work out the total number of handshakes.
- 30th November 2009A rectangle has length 9.2 cm and width 6.8 cm. Calculate its perimeter.