Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
April 2010 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in April 2010, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in April 2010
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 2010A poem compares loneliness to 'an empty chair at a crowded table.' Name this technique.
- 2nd April 2010Explain why a poet might choose an irregular, unpredictable rhythm to describe a storm, rather than a steady, regular one.
- 3rd April 2010Choose the correct homophone: ___ going to be late if the bus does not arrive soon. (Whose / Who's)
- 4th April 2010Identify the subordinate clause in this sentence: Because the fire alarm sounded, everyone left the building calmly.
- 5th April 2010What is the term for a poem that continues a sentence or idea from one line to the next without a pause?
- 6th April 2010A travel article is written for a general newspaper audience rather than for expert climbers. How might its vocabulary and level of detail differ from a specialist mountaineering magazine?
- 7th April 2010On a distance-time graph, a cyclist's journey is shown as a horizontal line for 15 minutes. What does this tell you about the cyclist during this time?
- 8th April 2010A phone contract costs 18.50 pounds per month for 24 months, plus an upfront cost of 49 pounds. Work out the total cost of the contract.
- 9th April 2010Find 3/8 of 64.
- 10th April 2010Solve 3(2x - 1) = x + 17.
- 11th April 2010Describe the locus of points that are equidistant from two fixed points, A and B.
- 12th April 2010In a right-angled triangle, the hypotenuse is 13 cm and one other side is 5 cm. Work out the size of the angle opposite the 5 cm side, to 1 decimal place.
- 13th April 2010A triangle has sides 7 cm and 9 cm with an included angle of 50 degrees. Work out its area, to 1 decimal place.
- 14th April 2010Work out the mean of 8, 12, 15, 9 and 11.
- 15th April 2010Find 25% of 84 pounds.
- 16th April 2010A doctor records that a foetus is 38 weeks old. Given that human gestation lasts approximately 40 weeks, state approximately how many weeks of pregnancy remain.
- 17th April 2010A student adds a piece of unknown grey solid to dilute acid and no bubbles are produced, even after several minutes. Suggest whether the solid is a metal or a non-metal, and explain your reasoning.
- 18th April 2010A torch bulb has a resistance of 15 ohms and a current of 0.2 A flows through it. Use V = I x R to calculate the voltage across the bulb.
- 19th April 2010Name the salt formed when hydrochloric acid reacts with sodium hydroxide.
- 20th April 2010A pupil wants to measure the current flowing through a lamp in a circuit. Name the piece of apparatus she needs, and state whether it should be connected in series or in parallel with the lamp.
- 21st April 2010Name the gas needed by the body for aerobic respiration to take place.
- 22nd April 2010A student investigates how the mass of five different metal samples affects their volume, with mass as a continuous numerical variable. State whether a bar chart or a line graph is the more appropriate way to display these results.
- 23rd April 2010A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how the writer builds a sense of danger across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 24th April 2010A travel article is written for a general newspaper audience rather than for expert climbers. How might its vocabulary and level of detail differ from a specialist mountaineering magazine?
- 25th April 2010In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The submersible's hull must withstand immense pressure at such depths, where a single flaw could prove catastrophic.' What does 'catastrophic' mean here?
- 26th April 2010Name the technique used in this slogan: Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.
- 27th April 2010Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for 'the alleyway at dusk.'
- 28th April 2010Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: "The station was BUSY."
- 29th April 2010Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for "the fruit stall."
- 30th April 2010Find the median and the range of this data set: 7, 3, 9, 3, 12, 5.