Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
January 2011 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in January 2011, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in January 2011
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2011What is the effect of directly addressing an audience as 'you' in a speech?
- 2nd January 2011A charity advert says: 'You could change a child's life today.' Which word directly addresses the reader, and what effect does this have?
- 3rd January 2011Express 60 as a product of its prime factors, then use this to find the lowest common multiple (LCM) of 60 and 24.
- 4th January 2011A right-angled triangle has two shorter sides of length 9 cm and 12 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 5th January 2011A cafe sells 3 coffees at 2.40 pounds each and 2 teas at 1.60 pounds each. Work out the total cost, without a calculator.
- 6th January 2011y is directly proportional to x^2. When x = 3, y = 45. Work out y when x = 5.
- 7th January 2011A survey asked 30 people how many siblings they have: 9 have 0, 12 have 1, 6 have 2, 3 have 3. Work out the mean number of siblings.
- 8th January 2011A machine produces 480 items in a day that lasts 7.5 hours. Work out the number of items produced per hour.
- 9th January 2011Work out 6^2 - sqrt(49).
- 10th January 2011Write 0.6 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 11th January 2011Two fair coins are tossed together. Find the probability of getting at least one tail.
- 12th January 2011Which of the seven life processes describes an organism getting rid of waste products made inside its body?
- 13th January 2011State the name of the change of state when a solid changes directly into a liquid.
- 14th January 2011A trolley of mass 20 kg is pushed with a resultant force of 60 N. Use force = mass x acceleration to calculate its acceleration.
- 15th January 2011Name the type of blood vessel that carries blood away from the heart under high pressure.
- 16th January 2011State whether gold is a very reactive or a very unreactive metal, given that it is found in the Earth as the pure metal rather than in a compound.
- 17th January 2011A pupil doubles the concentration of acid used in a reaction with a metal, keeping everything else the same. State what happens to the rate of the reaction.
- 18th January 2011Before starting a watering investigation, a pupil writes this prediction: a plant given more water each day will grow taller than one given less water. State one piece of scientific reasoning that could support this prediction.
- 19th January 2011Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for "the map in the drawer."
- 20th January 2011Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The fog rolled in from the sea.'
- 21st January 2011A character 'checked her watch for the third time in a minute and sighed.' What does this suggest about how she is feeling?
- 22nd January 2011Which word class is 'cautiously' in the sentence 'She cautiously ran her glove along the rusted rail'?
- 23rd January 2011A question asks you to "compare how the two poets present the sea." What is the best way to structure your answer?
- 24th January 2011Give one example of emotive language a writer might use to persuade pupils that reading is enjoyable rather than a chore.
- 25th January 2011In the line "Icicles hang like daggers from the eaves", which technique is used?
- 26th January 2011Calculate the circumference of a circle with a radius of 9 cm. Use pi = 3.14.
- 27th January 2011Find 30% of 150.
- 28th January 2011Work out 13^2.
- 29th January 2011Find 5/6 of 72.
- 30th January 2011A recipe for 4 people uses 200g of butter. How much butter is needed for 10 people?
- 31st January 2011A tap fills a bucket at a constant rate of 3 litres every 2 minutes. Work out how many litres it fills in 10 minutes.