Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
July 2010 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in July 2010, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in July 2010
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 2010Choose the correct word: There were ___ people at the concert than last year. (less / fewer)
- 2nd July 2010Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The branches creaked and clawed at the window'?
- 3rd July 2010Find and copy one word from 'the anvil's patient, unmoving weight' that gives the anvil a human quality.
- 4th July 2010Which word class is 'desperately' in 'He desperately searched for a handhold'?
- 5th July 2010Correct the punctuation in this sentence, which reports direct speech: she shouted watch out and pulled her brother back from the road
- 6th July 2010A question asks you to "find and copy one phrase" meaning "completely dark." Which of these fits: "pitch black", "faintly lit", "clear blue" or "softly glowing"?
- 7th July 2010A rectangle has length 9 cm and width 6 cm. Work out its area and its perimeter.
- 8th July 2010Convert 2 hours 15 minutes into minutes.
- 9th July 2010Find 2/9 of 63.
- 10th July 2010Write 5.4 x 10^4 as an ordinary number.
- 11th July 2010A recipe needs 250 g of flour to make 8 muffins. Work out how much flour is needed to make 20 muffins at the same recipe strength.
- 12th July 2010Write 0.72 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 13th July 2010A floor is tiled with a repeating pattern of identical regular hexagonal tiles, with no gaps or overlaps. State the size of each interior angle of a regular hexagon, and explain why regular hexagons can tile a flat floor exactly.
- 14th July 2010A cuboid has dimensions 6 cm by 4 cm by 3 cm. Calculate its volume.
- 15th July 2010The nth term of a sequence is 5n - 2. Find the 12th term.
- 16th July 2010State one way the alveoli are adapted for efficient gas exchange.
- 17th July 2010Explain why attaching a block of zinc to the hull of a steel ship helps to protect the ship from rusting.
- 18th July 2010Name the organs whose main job is to filter waste products out of the blood and produce urine.
- 19th July 2010Name the continuous process by which rocks are broken down, transported, deposited, and can eventually reform into new rock types.
- 20th July 2010Name the gas that makes up approximately 78% of the Earth's atmosphere.
- 21st July 2010Which piece of apparatus should be used to measure the temperature of a liquid in an experiment?
- 22nd July 2010In the same text, is the sentence "There is nothing more thrilling than floating silently above the countryside" a fact or an opinion?
- 23rd July 2010Find and copy one word from 'the tide dragged its heavy silver chain across the sand' that gives the tide a human or animal-like quality.
- 24th July 2010Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The wind whispered through the willow'?
- 25th July 2010Add the missing apostrophe: The three teachers offices were being redecorated. (There are three teachers, each with their own office.)
- 26th July 2010Add a semicolon in the correct place: The bus was late the queue grew longer by the minute.
- 27th July 2010Explain why a poet might choose soft, hissing sounds, sibilance, to describe a fox moving at night, rather than harsh, hard sounds.
- 28th July 2010You are asked to summarise a paragraph in one sentence. What is the biggest risk to avoid?
- 29th July 2010A conversion graph shows that 5 miles is equivalent to 8 kilometres. Using this scale, convert 20 miles to kilometres.
- 30th July 2010The nth term of a sequence is 5n - 2. Work out the 15th term.
- 31st July 2010Convert the recurring decimal 0.3636... (where the digits 36 recur) to a fraction in its simplest form.