Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
December 2010 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in December 2010, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in December 2010
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 2010Two identical bulbs are each connected on their own to an identical battery. State how the brightness of a bulb connected on its own compares with an identical bulb connected in series with a second bulb to the same type of battery.
- 2nd December 2010State how long it takes, approximately, for the Moon to orbit the Earth once.
- 3rd December 2010Name the type of teeth used mainly for cutting food.
- 4th December 2010State why it is good practice to run a quick preliminary (trial) experiment before starting the main investigation.
- 5th December 2010A writer describes the wind as "clawing at their jackets, determined to drag them off the mountain." Name the technique used here.
- 6th December 2010What do the letters PAF stand for when analysing a non-fiction text?
- 7th December 2010A newspaper report about a restored pier states: 'Engineers replaced over eleven thousand individual timbers during the two-year project.' What retrieval detail answers the question, how many timbers were replaced?
- 8th December 2010Give one example of a statistic a writer might use to persuade readers to use fewer plastic bags.
- 9th December 2010Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The wind howled, and the shutters rattled.'
- 10th December 2010Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "The train arrived late."
- 11th December 2010Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: fresh bread the baker called still warm from the oven
- 12th December 2010Two coins are flipped at the same time. List all the possible outcomes, and find the probability of getting exactly one head.
- 13th December 2010In a right-angled triangle, the angle at A is 32 degrees and the adjacent side is 9 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse, to 1 decimal place.
- 14th December 2010A cylindrical tin has radius 4 cm and height 15 cm. Work out its volume, to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 15th December 2010Simplify the ratio 32:12.
- 16th December 2010Two hockey teams recorded the number of goals they scored in their last 5 matches. Team A: 2, 3, 2, 4, 4. Team B: 0, 1, 5, 6, 3. Compare the two teams by working out the mean and the range for each.
- 17th December 2010Simplify sqrt(50) - sqrt(8), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(2).
- 18th December 2010Factorise fully 10x + 15.
- 19th December 2010Work out 2^5 - 3^3.
- 20th December 2010A 750 gram box of cereal costs 2.40 pounds, and a 500 gram box of the same cereal costs 1.70 pounds. Which box offers better value for money? Show your working.
- 21st December 2010A pupil views onion cells under a microscope after adding a drop of iodine solution to the slide. State why the iodine solution was added.
- 22nd December 2010A student dissolves ammonium nitrate in water and the temperature of the solution falls. State whether this process is exothermic or endothermic.
- 23rd December 2010State whether solar power is a renewable or a non-renewable energy resource.
- 24th December 2010A book rests on a table and does not move. Name the force from the table that balances the book's weight.
- 25th December 2010Name the process by which plants lose water vapour from their leaves.
- 26th December 2010Name the process used to neutralise an acid using an alkali.
- 27th December 2010Which sentence uses a semicolon correctly? A) The whistle blew; and the players stopped. B) The whistle blew; the players stopped at once.
- 28th December 2010A writer describes sawdust as 'settling like a light snowfall over every surface.' Name the technique used.
- 29th December 2010In an extract, a character "kept glancing at the door and twisting the strap of her bag." What does this suggest about the character's feelings?
- 30th December 2010Write one short sentence (no more than five words) suitable for a moment of sudden shock in a story.
- 31st December 2010Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: The gates creaked open.