Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
February 2010 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in February 2010, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in February 2010
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 2010A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 7 cm and 24 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 2nd February 2010A bag contains 9 red, 8 blue and 7 green counters only. A counter is picked at random. Work out the probability it is green, giving your answer as a decimal to 3 significant figures.
- 3rd February 2010Work out 15% of 340 pounds.
- 4th February 2010Work out 8.3 x 5.2, giving your answer to 1 decimal place.
- 5th February 2010Simplify the ratio 45:60.
- 6th February 2010A netball team played 20 matches. The table shows goals scored per match. Goals: 0, 1, 2, 3. Frequency: 4, 7, 6, 3. Calculate the mean number of goals per match.
- 7th February 2010A slice of toast contains 12 g of carbohydrate, 4 g of protein and 3 g of fat. Each gram of carbohydrate and each gram of protein provides 4 kcal of energy, and each gram of fat provides 9 kcal. Calculate the total energy content of the toast.
- 8th February 2010Name the technique used to separate sand from a mixture of sand and water.
- 9th February 2010Ben has a mass of 12 kg. Calculate his weight on Earth. Use weight = mass x gravitational field strength, with g = 10 N/kg.
- 10th February 2010State the name given to a substance that speeds up a chemical reaction without being permanently used up itself.
- 11th February 2010State one advantage of using solar power to generate electricity, compared with burning fossil fuels.
- 12th February 2010State the name given to elements found in Group 1 of the periodic table.
- 13th February 2010A pupil wants to find out whether increasing the concentration of a salt solution affects the boiling point of water. Suggest one variable, other than salt concentration, that should be kept the same for this to be a fair test.
- 14th February 2010Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: "The cellar was DARK."
- 15th February 2010Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'Although the fog was thick, the fishermen still set out.'
- 16th February 2010In an extract, the writer moves from describing the busy platform to focusing closely on one child crying by the ticket barrier. What effect might this shift in focus create?
- 17th February 2010Find and copy one word from 'the corridor swallowed the beam of her torch' that gives the corridor a human or animal-like quality.
- 18th February 2010A poem describes a train as having a "rattling, roaring, rumbling" journey. Name the technique shown by these three words together.
- 19th February 2010An article opens with a short story about one pupil who found a favourite book by accident, before making any wider argument. What is this technique called?
- 20th February 2010A poem has six lines in each stanza with no regular rhyme pattern. What is this style called?
- 21st February 2010Calculate the area of a circle with a diameter of 20 cm. Use pi = 3.14.
- 22nd February 2010Work out 12 x 7.
- 23rd February 2010Work out 7 x 8 + 6 x 3.
- 24th February 2010Without a calculator, work out 45% of 160.
- 25th February 2010Ade and Bo share 56 sweets in the ratio 3:4. How many sweets does Bo receive?
- 26th February 2010108 pounds is shared between Amir and Bea in the ratio 4:5.
- 27th February 2010Write 0.4 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 28th February 2010Write 5/8 as a decimal.