Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
November 2010 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in November 2010, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in November 2010
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 2010Work out 3/4 of 148.
- 2nd November 2010Share 156 pounds between two people in the ratio 7:6.
- 3rd November 2010In a class of 30 pupils, 18 play football, 14 play tennis, and 7 play both football and tennis. How many pupils play neither football nor tennis?
- 4th November 2010Convert 4.2 metres into centimetres.
- 5th November 2010The first three terms of the triangular numbers are 1, 3, 6. If the pattern continues in the same way, what is the next term after 6?
- 6th November 2010Name the enzyme that digests starch, and state the product it is broken down into.
- 7th November 2010Name the gas released when fossil fuels are burned that is the main cause of the enhanced greenhouse effect.
- 8th November 2010The Sun is much larger than the Earth. State what type of object the Sun is, and name the force that keeps the Earth in orbit around it.
- 9th November 2010Name the type of rock formed when layers of sediment, such as sand or mud, are compressed together over a long period of time.
- 10th November 2010Name the force that opposes the motion of an object moving through air.
- 11th November 2010A thermometer has graduations every 1 degree C. A student takes a single temperature reading of 40 degrees C. Calculate the percentage uncertainty in this reading.
- 12th November 2010A text about coral reefs moves from explaining what coral is, to how reefs form, to why they are under threat. What is this structure called?
- 13th November 2010Explain why a poet might use short, one-word lines to describe a sudden event, such as an accident.
- 14th November 2010A poem compares grief to 'a stone carried in the pocket, never quite forgotten.' Name this technique.
- 15th November 2010Correct the tense error: Last week, the choir practises for two hours every evening.
- 16th November 2010Punctuate this exchange between two speakers, starting a new line for each: are you ready asked sam almost said priya
- 17th November 2010Which two poetic techniques appear in the line 'The streetlamp's silver stare slid over its fur'?
- 18th November 2010What do the letters PAF stand for when analysing a non-fiction text?
- 19th November 2010Find the gradient of the line joining (1, 4) and (5, 16).
- 20th November 2010A cylindrical water butt has a radius of 35 cm and a height of 120 cm. Work out its volume, giving your answer in cm^3 to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 21st November 2010Find 35% of 180.
- 22nd November 2010Two numbers are in the ratio 4 : 7. Their sum is 66. Work out the difference between the two numbers.
- 23rd November 2010A shape is made from a rectangle measuring 12 cm by 8 cm, with a right-angled triangle of base 6 cm and height 8 cm removed from one corner. Work out the area of the remaining shape.
- 24th November 2010Simplify sqrt(45) + sqrt(20), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(5).
- 25th November 2010A chord subtends an angle of 76 degrees at the centre of a circle. Work out the angle it subtends at the circumference, on the major arc.
- 26th November 2010A journey of 84 km takes 1 hour 45 minutes. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 27th November 2010A car travels 210 km in 3.5 hours at a constant speed. Calculate how far it would travel in 5 hours at the same speed.
- 28th November 2010State the name of the structure that allows oxygen and nutrients to pass from a mother's blood to her developing foetus.
- 29th November 2010Name the salt produced when zinc reacts with sulfuric acid.
- 30th November 2010A student doubles the frequency of a wave while keeping its speed the same. State what happens to the wavelength.