Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
April 2011 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in April 2011, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in April 2011
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 2011Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'Because the tide was rising, the children ran back up the beach.'
- 2nd April 2011Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: mind the gap called the guard as the doors slid shut
- 3rd April 2011Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "A trader called out his prices, and shoppers began to gather."
- 4th April 2011A spinner has a probability of 0.3 of landing on red, a probability of 0.45 of landing on blue, and the remaining probability of landing on green. Find the probability of landing on green.
- 5th April 2011p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 3, p = 20. Work out p when q = 12.
- 6th April 2011Find the midpoint of the line segment joining A(2, -3) and B(-6, 9).
- 7th April 2011A train journey of 175 km takes 2.5 hours at a constant speed. Work out the speed in km/h.
- 8th April 2011A spinner can land on red, blue, green or yellow only. P(red) = 0.3, P(blue) = 0.25, P(green) = 0.2. Work out P(yellow).
- 9th April 2011The product of two consecutive positive integers is 132. Find the two integers.
- 10th April 2011Simplify 6a + 4b - 2a + 5b.
- 11th April 2011A car depreciates by 15% each year. It is worth 20,000 pounds now. Work out its value after 1 year.
- 12th April 2011Calculate the simple interest earned on 600 pounds saved for 3 years at an annual rate of 4%.
- 13th April 2011A cell has a real width of 0.02 mm. In a drawing, the same cell is shown 4 mm wide. Calculate the magnification of the drawing.
- 14th April 2011Explain, using collision theory, why crushing a solid into a powder increases the rate of reaction.
- 15th April 2011A wind turbine and a coal power station both generate electricity, but only one of them directly burns fuel to boil water into steam. State which one this is, and name the component that this steam turns.
- 16th April 2011A car accelerates from rest to 20 m/s in 4 s. Calculate its acceleration, using acceleration = change in velocity / time.
- 17th April 2011Name the group in the periodic table that contains helium, neon and argon.
- 18th April 2011A pupil measures a mass of 3.5 kg on a set of scales. Convert this mass to grams.
- 19th April 2011Add an apostrophe in the correct place: The two teams kits were both muddy after the match. (There is one kit set per team, and two teams in total.)
- 20th April 2011An apprentice is described as 'chewing the inside of his cheek and avoiding his master's eye.' What does this suggest about how he feels?
- 21st April 2011Which word means the same as "cluttered" in a sentence describing a messy attic: "crammed", "empty", "tidy" or "spacious"?
- 22nd April 2011Rewrite this line of dialogue to remove the overused adverb, showing the emotion instead: 'I'm not scared,' she said bravely.
- 23rd April 2011Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: The lights flickered, and the music started on its own.
- 24th April 2011Name the technique used in this line: New voices. New ideas. New confidence.
- 25th April 2011A speech opens with the line: 'Imagine losing your home in a single night.' What technique is this, and why is it an effective opening?
- 26th April 2011Calculate the value of 7 + 2 x (6 - 3) x 2, showing your method.
- 27th April 2011Write 0.00042 in standard form.
- 28th April 2011A prize fund of 150 pounds is shared between two clubs in the ratio 2:3. Work out the larger share.
- 29th April 2011In a right-angled triangle, the angle at A is 50 degrees and the hypotenuse is 14 cm. Work out the length of the side opposite angle A, to 1 decimal place.
- 30th April 2011Find the midpoint of the line segment joining A(-5, -2) and B(9, 6).