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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.

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November 2009

30 sheets · 150 questions · Years 7-8

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.

  1. 1st November 2009Round 6.849 to 1 decimal place.
  2. 2nd November 2009A coat costs 80 pounds. Its price increases by 25%. Work out the new price.
  3. 3rd November 2009A prize of 240 pounds is shared between three friends in the ratio 1:2:5. Work out the smallest share.
  4. 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.
  5. 5th November 2009Work out 3 + 6 x 2 - 4.
  6. 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.
  7. 7th November 2009Work out -3 - 6.
  8. 8th November 2009Work out -9 + 15.
  9. 9th November 2009Name the green pigment, found in chloroplasts, that absorbs light energy for photosynthesis.
  10. 10th November 2009Name the group of the periodic table that contains elements which are almost completely unreactive because their outer electron shell is full.
  11. 11th November 2009A red filter is held in front of a torch shining white light. State which colour of light passes through the filter.
  12. 12th November 2009State whether sound can travel through a vacuum (empty space), and give a reason.
  13. 13th November 2009Name the blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart.
  14. 14th November 2009Name the small intestine's main job in the digestive system.
  15. 15th November 2009A writer describes a bell as 'clanging its complaint into the empty square.' Name the poetic or literary technique used here.
  16. 16th November 2009Add the correct negative prefix to make this word mean 'not legal': legal.
  17. 17th November 2009Choose the correct word: We had ___ time to finish the test than we expected. (less / fewer)
  18. 18th November 2009What is the name for a poem written in stanzas of two lines each?
  19. 19th November 2009Explain why a poet might choose short, one-syllable words to describe the strike of a hammer, rather than longer, softer words.
  20. 20th November 2009A climber notices 'his fingers had gone from cold to strangely warm.' What might this detail suggest to an alert reader?
  21. 21st November 2009In the sentence 'The overexcited puppy chewed through the new shoe,' what word class is 'chewed'?
  22. 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?
  23. 23rd November 2009Simplify 5x + 3y - 2x + 7y.
  24. 24th November 2009Work out 40% of 65.
  25. 25th November 2009A jacket costs 65 pounds. Work out the cost after a 20% discount.
  26. 26th November 2009p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 8, p = 9. Work out p when q = 6.
  27. 27th November 2009Write 0.35 as a fraction in its simplest form.
  28. 28th November 2009Work out 5/6 of 90.
  29. 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.
  30. 30th November 2009A rectangle has length 9.2 cm and width 6.8 cm. Calculate its perimeter.