Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
September 2010 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in September 2010, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in September 2010
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 2010A runner covers 400 m in 50 seconds at a constant speed. Use speed = distance / time to calculate her speed.
- 2nd September 2010Some endothermic reactions cause the temperature of their surroundings to fall. Explain, in terms of energy, why this happens.
- 3rd September 2010Name the two products of photosynthesis.
- 4th September 2010A pupil adds universal indicator to a solution and it turns red. State whether the solution is acidic, alkaline or neutral.
- 5th September 2010Choose the correct homophone to complete the sentence: The team celebrated ___ victory together. (their / there / they're)
- 6th September 2010In the sentence 'The old clock in the hallway ticked with the patience of a watchman,' which word gives the clock a human quality?
- 7th September 2010A character mutters "It's nothing" while quickly hiding a letter in his pocket. Explain what the contrast between his words and actions suggests.
- 8th September 2010Explain one way an ending can 'connect back' to the opening of a story.
- 9th September 2010Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: Although the fair had closed years ago, the carousel still turned.
- 10th September 2010Give one example of emotive language a speaker might use to persuade pupils that public speaking is worth the risk.
- 11th September 2010What is a rhetorical question, and why do persuasive writers use them?
- 12th September 2010Round 4826 to the nearest hundred.
- 13th September 2010Solve x^2 + 3x - 10 = 0.
- 14th September 2010Without a calculator, work out 35% of 220.
- 15th September 2010Solve x^2 + 4x - 21 = 0.
- 16th September 2010A motorbike valued at 5,500 pounds depreciates by 18% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 17th September 2010Work out 4.7 x 3.6, giving your answer to 1 decimal place.
- 18th September 2010A car travels 189 miles using 7 gallons of fuel. Work out the miles per gallon.
- 19th September 2010A pair of trainers costs 45 pounds. The price increases by 20%. Work out the new price.
- 20th September 2010A bag contains 5 red counters and 7 blue counters. Two counters are taken from the bag at random, one after the other, without replacement. Find the probability that both counters are the same colour.
- 21st September 2010Put these organs in the order food passes through them during digestion: large intestine, mouth, stomach, small intestine, oesophagus.
- 22nd September 2010A pupil finds the volume of an irregular stone using a measuring cylinder. The water level rises from 35 cm^3 to 52 cm^3 when the stone is added. The stone has a mass of 42.5 g. Calculate the density of the stone, giving your answer to 2 significant figures.
- 23rd September 2010State whether the main force acting when a compass needle points north is a contact force or a non-contact force.
- 24th September 2010Name the process by which cells release energy from glucose using oxygen.
- 25th September 2010Name one renewable energy resource.
- 26th September 2010Name the piece of equipment used to separate an insoluble solid from a liquid.
- 27th September 2010A pupil's teacher suggests using a data logger to measure temperature every second during an experiment, instead of a pupil reading a thermometer every minute. Suggest one advantage of using a data logger in this experiment.
- 28th September 2010Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: dont go any further whispered grace something isnt right down here
- 29th September 2010Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The fog rolled in, and the harbour lights dimmed to a blur.'
- 30th September 2010A five-mark question asks you to explain how the writer builds a sense of frustration across the whole extract. What should your answer cover?