Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
February 2011 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in February 2011, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in February 2011
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 2011Calculate 74 - 38.
- 2nd February 2011Work out -7 + 15.
- 3rd February 2011A journey of 240 km takes 4 hours at a constant speed. Work out the speed in km/h.
- 4th February 2011In the food chain 'grass, rabbit, fox', name the primary consumer.
- 5th February 2011State one physical property that distinguishes a typical non-metal from a typical metal.
- 6th February 2011An astronaut has a mass of 70 kg on Earth. State her mass on the Moon, and explain why her weight on the Moon is less than her weight on Earth.
- 7th February 2011Using the periodic table, state whether the element chlorine (Cl) is a metal or a non-metal.
- 8th February 2011State one function of the human skeleton, other than support.
- 9th February 2011Name the enzyme found in saliva that begins the digestion of starch in the mouth.
- 10th February 2011A question is worth 4 marks and asks you to explain the effect of a writer's language in a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 11th February 2011Which punctuation mark correctly joins these two related sentences into one: 'The rain finally stopped ___ the match could go ahead after all.'
- 12th February 2011Add a hyphen where needed: a ten year old girl won the competition.
- 13th February 2011Explain why a poet might end a poem about autumn with a single short line, such as 'Then, silence.'
- 14th February 2011A poem has three-line stanzas with no rhyme at all. What effect might this irregular structure create?
- 15th February 2011A climber 'gripped the rope until his knuckles turned white, then made himself let go, one finger at a time.' What does this suggest about the difficulty of what he is doing?
- 16th February 2011Choose the correct homophone to complete the sentence: The dog wagged ___ tail happily. (its / it's)
- 17th February 2011Which word means the same as "enormous" in a sentence describing a huge shipwreck: "colossal", "tiny", "narrow" or "shallow"?
- 18th February 2011A cinema charges 6.50 pounds for an adult ticket and 4.20 pounds for a child ticket. A family buys tickets for 2 adults and 3 children. Work out the total cost, without using a calculator.
- 19th February 2011Work out 9 x 8.
- 20th February 2011Work out (4 + 3) x (9 - 5).
- 21st February 2011y is directly proportional to x^2. When x = 4, y = 32. Work out y when x = 6.
- 22nd February 2011Write the ratio 18:24 in its simplest form.
- 23rd February 2011Work out 8.4 x 6, using a written method.
- 24th February 2011A dice has its six faces numbered 1 to 6, arranged so opposite faces always add up to 7. The face showing 2 is on top, and the face showing 3 is facing you. Work out which number is on the bottom face, and which number is on the face directly opposite the one facing you.
- 25th February 2011State the order of rotational symmetry and the number of lines of symmetry of a regular pentagon.
- 26th February 2011A pattern of dots grows so that pattern 1 has 4 dots, pattern 2 has 7 dots, and pattern 3 has 10 dots. How many dots will pattern 6 have?
- 27th February 2011State one way bile helps with the digestion of fats.
- 28th February 2011In the reactivity series, state which is more reactive: zinc or copper.