Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
December 2011 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in December 2011, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in December 2011
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 2011Find and correct the tense error in this sentence: Last week, the team trains hard and wins every match.
- 2nd December 2011A four-mark question asks you to explain the effect of the writer's language in one paragraph. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
- 3rd December 2011A question asks you to "find and copy one word" meaning "silent." Which of these fits: "hushed", "loud", "busy" or "bright"?
- 4th December 2011Identify the four stages of a well-structured short narrative.
- 5th December 2011Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: dont go near the big wheel warned tom its not safe
- 6th December 2011A speaker opens with a short, true story about one shy pupil who became the club's best speaker. What is this technique called?
- 7th December 2011A leaflet states: 'Experts agree that recycling just one more item a week could transform our town's waste problem.' Name one persuasive technique used here.
- 8th December 2011List all the factors of 30, and state the highest common factor (HCF) of 30 and 45.
- 9th December 2011The three angles of a triangle are in the ratio 2 : 3 : 4. Work out the size of the largest angle.
- 10th December 2011Simplify 7x - 3y + 2x + 8y.
- 11th December 2011A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 7 cm and 24 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 12th December 2011A bag contains 9 red, 8 blue and 7 green counters only. A counter is picked at random. Work out the probability it is green, giving your answer as a decimal to 3 significant figures.
- 13th December 2011Work out 15% of 340 pounds.
- 14th December 2011Work out 8.3 x 5.2, giving your answer to 1 decimal place.
- 15th December 2011Simplify the ratio 45:60.
- 16th December 2011A netball team played 20 matches. The table shows goals scored per match. Goals: 0, 1, 2, 3. Frequency: 4, 7, 6, 3. Calculate the mean number of goals per match.
- 17th December 2011A slice of toast contains 12 g of carbohydrate, 4 g of protein and 3 g of fat. Each gram of carbohydrate and each gram of protein provides 4 kcal of energy, and each gram of fat provides 9 kcal. Calculate the total energy content of the toast.
- 18th December 2011Name the technique used to separate sand from a mixture of sand and water.
- 19th December 2011Ben has a mass of 12 kg. Calculate his weight on Earth. Use weight = mass x gravitational field strength, with g = 10 N/kg.
- 20th December 2011A ray of light travels from air into a glass block and bends towards the normal at the boundary. Name this effect.
- 21st December 2011Name one structure found in a plant cell that is not found in an animal cell.
- 22nd December 2011State the name of the process by which oxygen moves from the air in the lungs into the blood.
- 23rd December 2011A pupil's results table is missing units for one column, headed only 'Volume'. State why it is important to always include a unit in a column heading or with a numerical answer.
- 24th December 2011Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: "The cellar was DARK."
- 25th December 2011Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'Although the fog was thick, the fishermen still set out.'
- 26th December 2011In an extract, the writer moves from describing the busy platform to focusing closely on one child crying by the ticket barrier. What effect might this shift in focus create?
- 27th December 2011Find and copy one word from 'the corridor swallowed the beam of her torch' that gives the corridor a human or animal-like quality.
- 28th December 2011A poem describes a train as having a "rattling, roaring, rumbling" journey. Name the technique shown by these three words together.
- 29th December 2011An article opens with a short story about one pupil who found a favourite book by accident, before making any wider argument. What is this technique called?
- 30th December 2011A poem has six lines in each stanza with no regular rhyme pattern. What is this style called?
- 31st December 2011Calculate the perimeter of a rectangle measuring 14 cm by 8.5 cm.