Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
August 2011 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in August 2011, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in August 2011
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2011Here are the first four terms of a sequence: 7, 11, 15, 19. Find an expression for the nth term.
- 2nd August 2011Find the mean of 14, 18, 22, 16 and 20.
- 3rd August 2011Write 3/8 as a percentage.
- 4th August 2011Name the specialised cell in humans that is adapted with a long tail and many mitochondria to swim toward an egg cell.
- 5th August 2011State what happens to a catalyst during a chemical reaction.
- 6th August 2011State one reason, other than cost, why a country might want to reduce its reliance on non-renewable energy resources such as coal and oil.
- 7th August 2011State whether a frog is classified as a vertebrate or an invertebrate, and give a reason.
- 8th August 2011A trolley of mass 2 kg is raised to a height of 5 m. Use GPE = mass x gravitational field strength x height (g = 10 N/kg) to calculate its gravitational potential energy.
- 9th August 2011Name the planet in our solar system that is closest to the Sun.
- 10th August 2011This sentence contains a comma splice: The match ended in a draw, both teams were happy. Correct it in one way.
- 11th August 2011A question asks you to 'find and copy one word which shows that the workshop was untidy.' What kind of question is this, and how should you answer it?
- 12th August 2011A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how a writer builds atmosphere across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 13th August 2011Which of these would best speed up the pace of an action scene: a long sentence with several clauses, or a short, three-word sentence?
- 14th August 2011Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for 'the funfair at midnight.'
- 15th August 2011Is the claim 'debating is clearly the single best way to build confidence' a fact or an opinion?
- 16th August 2011A campaign letter opens with a short, true story about one family affected by flooding, before giving any statistics. What is this technique called, and why might a writer use it first?
- 17th August 2011Work out (-5) + (-8) - (-6).
- 18th August 2011p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 4, p = 15. Work out the value of p when q = 10.
- 19th August 2011Find 3/8 of 64.
- 20th August 2011Write 0.000078 in standard form.
- 21st August 2011A cylindrical bucket has radius 12 cm and height 25 cm. Work out its volume, to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 22nd August 2011Work out sqrt(169) + 4^2.
- 23rd August 2011Increase 240 pounds by 12%.
- 24th August 2011Work out 312 divided by 8, using a written method.
- 25th August 2011The list shows the number of pets owned by 9 pupils: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 0, 1. Write down the mode.
- 26th August 2011During vigorous exercise, a sprinter's muscles cannot get enough oxygen. Name the substance that builds up in the muscles as a result, and state one effect this has.
- 27th August 2011The density of olive oil is 0.92 g/cm^3. State, with a reason, whether olive oil would float or sink in water (density 1.0 g/cm^3).
- 28th August 2011A parcel of mass 2.5 kg is lifted onto a shelf 2 m above the ground. Take g = 10 N/kg and use GPE = mass x g x height. Calculate the gain in gravitational potential energy.
- 29th August 2011Name the process by which plants lose water vapour from their leaves through tiny pores called stomata.
- 30th August 2011Name the structure inside a plant cell where photosynthesis takes place.
- 31st August 2011Name the process of cell division that produces two genetically identical daughter cells for growth and repair.