Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
October 2011 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in October 2011, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in October 2011
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2011A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how a writer builds a sense of danger across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 2nd October 2011A charity bake sale raises 200 pounds, split between three charities in the ratio 3 : 2 : 5. Work out the amount the largest share receives.
- 3rd October 2011Work out 40% of 65.
- 4th October 2011A jacket costs 65 pounds. Work out the cost after a 20% discount.
- 5th October 2011p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 8, p = 9. Work out p when q = 6.
- 6th October 2011Write 0.35 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 7th October 2011Work out 5/6 of 90.
- 8th October 2011A regular polygon has an exterior angle of 24 degrees. Work out how many sides the polygon has.
- 9th October 2011A rectangle has length 9.2 cm and width 6.8 cm. Calculate its perimeter.
- 10th October 2011Write the next two terms of the sequence: 3, 7, 11, 15, ...
- 11th October 2011Name the substance that builds up in muscles during anaerobic respiration and causes fatigue.
- 12th October 2011Name the two substances that must both be present for iron to rust.
- 13th October 2011Write the number 0.048706 to 2 significant figures.
- 14th October 2011State the name of the rock type formed when magma cools and solidifies underground.
- 15th October 2011State the name of the process by which light rays bend as they pass from air into glass.
- 16th October 2011A student reads the volume of liquid in a measuring cylinder. The bottom of the meniscus lines up exactly halfway between the 22 cm^3 and 24 cm^3 graduation marks. State the volume of liquid.
- 17th October 2011A non-fiction text about volcanoes uses the heading "How an Eruption Happens." What is the purpose of this heading?
- 18th October 2011What is the name for a poem written in three-line stanzas?
- 19th October 2011A poem has four-line stanzas with an ABAB rhyme scheme throughout. What effect might this regular structure have on the reader?
- 20th October 2011Insert a colon in the correct place: The kit list included the following items a torch, a compass and a whistle.
- 21st October 2011Correct the subject-verb agreement error: The team of swimmers were training every morning.
- 22nd October 2011A poem compares the fox's eyes to 'two small, cold coins.' Name this technique.
- 23rd October 2011A magazine article about volcanoes is broken into sections titled 'How volcanoes form', 'Famous eruptions' and 'Living near a volcano'. What are these called, and what is their purpose?
- 24th October 2011Write down the coordinates of the point 3 units to the left of the origin and 5 units up.
- 25th October 2011A car valued at 12,000 pounds depreciates by 15% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 26th October 2011Write 3/5 as a decimal.
- 27th October 2011After a 12% pay rise, Priya's monthly salary is 2,240 pounds. Work out her monthly salary before the pay rise.
- 28th October 2011On a map with a scale of 1 : 25,000, two villages are 6.8 cm apart. Work out the real-life distance between the villages, in kilometres.
- 29th October 2011Expand and simplify (x + 5)(x - 3).
- 30th October 2011Simplify sqrt(75) - sqrt(12), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(3).
- 31st October 2011Work out 9.6 divided by 0.4.