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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.

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February 2011

28 sheets · 140 questions · Years 7-8

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.

  1. 1st February 2011Calculate 74 - 38.
  2. 2nd February 2011Work out -7 + 15.
  3. 3rd February 2011A journey of 240 km takes 4 hours at a constant speed. Work out the speed in km/h.
  4. 4th February 2011In the food chain 'grass, rabbit, fox', name the primary consumer.
  5. 5th February 2011State one physical property that distinguishes a typical non-metal from a typical metal.
  6. 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.
  7. 7th February 2011Using the periodic table, state whether the element chlorine (Cl) is a metal or a non-metal.
  8. 8th February 2011State one function of the human skeleton, other than support.
  9. 9th February 2011Name the enzyme found in saliva that begins the digestion of starch in the mouth.
  10. 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?
  11. 11th February 2011Which punctuation mark correctly joins these two related sentences into one: 'The rain finally stopped ___ the match could go ahead after all.'
  12. 12th February 2011Add a hyphen where needed: a ten year old girl won the competition.
  13. 13th February 2011Explain why a poet might end a poem about autumn with a single short line, such as 'Then, silence.'
  14. 14th February 2011A poem has three-line stanzas with no rhyme at all. What effect might this irregular structure create?
  15. 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?
  16. 16th February 2011Choose the correct homophone to complete the sentence: The dog wagged ___ tail happily. (its / it's)
  17. 17th February 2011Which word means the same as "enormous" in a sentence describing a huge shipwreck: "colossal", "tiny", "narrow" or "shallow"?
  18. 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.
  19. 19th February 2011Work out 9 x 8.
  20. 20th February 2011Work out (4 + 3) x (9 - 5).
  21. 21st February 2011y is directly proportional to x^2. When x = 4, y = 32. Work out y when x = 6.
  22. 22nd February 2011Write the ratio 18:24 in its simplest form.
  23. 23rd February 2011Work out 8.4 x 6, using a written method.
  24. 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.
  25. 25th February 2011State the order of rotational symmetry and the number of lines of symmetry of a regular pentagon.
  26. 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?
  27. 27th February 2011State one way bile helps with the digestion of fats.
  28. 28th February 2011In the reactivity series, state which is more reactive: zinc or copper.