Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
October 2010 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in October 2010, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in October 2010
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2010A question is worth 3 marks and asks you to explain the effect of a description. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
- 2nd October 2010If a poem's rhythm becomes short and broken in its final stanza after being steady throughout, what might this suggest?
- 3rd October 2010Name the technique used in this line: New worlds. New characters. New ideas, every single time.
- 4th October 2010If a poem starts with long, flowing lines and ends with very short, clipped lines, what effect might this create?
- 5th October 2010Calculate the area of a triangle with base 12 cm and height 9 cm.
- 6th October 2010Simplify 6a + 9 - 2a - 4.
- 7th October 2010Simplify 4(2x - 3) + 5.
- 8th October 2010A stall sells 4 sandwiches at 2.20 pounds each and 3 drinks at 1.10 pounds each. Work out the total cost, without a calculator.
- 9th October 2010Write the ratio 16:24 in its simplest form.
- 10th October 2010Work out 8 x 6.
- 11th October 2010Find 3/5 of 45.
- 12th October 2010Work out 15 x 14, using a written method.
- 13th October 2010Find 3/4 of 88.
- 14th October 2010State one way a communicable disease differs from a non-communicable disease.
- 15th October 2010State the name given to a horizontal row of the periodic table.
- 16th October 2010A ray of light travels from air into a glass block. State whether the ray bends towards the normal or away from the normal as it enters the glass.
- 17th October 2010Write the word equation for photosynthesis.
- 18th October 2010A pupil records the mass of a beaker of ice every 2 minutes as it melts. State which variable is the independent variable in this investigation.
- 19th October 2010Name the three states of matter.
- 20th October 2010A character says 'I'm fine' through gritted teeth, then slams the door. Explain what the contrast between the character's words and actions suggests.
- 21st October 2010Correct the spelling error caused by a missing doubled consonant: 'I am hopping to finish my homework before dinner' (meaning expecting, not jumping).
- 22nd October 2010Correct the tense error: 'Last week, she swims to the buoy and back without stopping.'
- 23rd October 2010A poem has irregular line lengths and no rhyme scheme, but a steady, insistent rhythm created by repeating the same three-syllable phrase. What technique creates this effect?
- 24th October 2010What is the name for a poem with no regular rhyme scheme or fixed rhythm?
- 25th October 2010A character 'counted his steps instead of looking down.' What does this suggest about his feelings?
- 26th October 2010Find and correct the tense error in this sentence: Yesterday, Priya walks to school and meets her friend Tom.
- 27th October 2010A writer describes a current as "dragging greedy fingers along the wreck." Name the technique used here.
- 28th October 2010Find 2/5 of 65.
- 29th October 2010A box of 15 chocolates costs 4.50 pounds. Work out the cost of one chocolate.
- 30th October 2010Work out 56 / 7.
- 31st October 2010In a right-angled triangle, the angle at A is 27 degrees and the opposite side is 6 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse, to 1 decimal place.