Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
May 2012 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in May 2012, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in May 2012
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2012Name the food group that provides the body with the most energy per gram.
- 2nd May 2012State the property used to arrange the elements in order in the modern periodic table.
- 3rd May 2012A red filter is held in front of a torch shining white light. State which colour of light passes through the filter.
- 4th May 2012State whether sound can travel through a vacuum (empty space), and give a reason.
- 5th May 2012Calculate the mean of these three repeat readings of a force: 4.2 N, 4.6 N, 4.4 N.
- 6th May 2012A circuit has a total resistance of 12 ohm and a current of 0.5 A flowing through it. Use V = I x R to calculate the voltage across the circuit.
- 7th May 2012In an extract, a character 'chewed his lip and stared at his shoes.' What does this suggest about the character's feelings?
- 8th May 2012Add a colon to this sentence in the correct place: The expedition needed three things warm clothing enough food and a reliable map.
- 9th May 2012Choose the correct word: There were ___ people at the concert than last year. (less / fewer)
- 10th May 2012Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The branches creaked and clawed at the window'?
- 11th May 2012Find and copy one word from 'the anvil's patient, unmoving weight' that gives the anvil a human quality.
- 12th May 2012Which word class is 'desperately' in 'He desperately searched for a handhold'?
- 13th May 2012In the sentence 'The overexcited puppy chewed through the new shoe,' what word class is 'chewed'?
- 14th May 2012A question asks you to "find and copy one phrase" meaning "completely dark." Which of these fits: "pitch black", "faintly lit", "clear blue" or "softly glowing"?
- 15th May 2012The probability that a spinner lands on red is 0.35. Work out the probability that it does not land on red.
- 16th May 2012Convert 2 hours 15 minutes into minutes.
- 17th May 2012Find 2/9 of 63.
- 18th May 2012Write 5.4 x 10^4 as an ordinary number.
- 19th May 2012A recipe needs 250 g of flour to make 8 muffins. Work out how much flour is needed to make 20 muffins at the same recipe strength.
- 20th May 2012Write 0.72 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 21st May 2012A cube with side length 4 cm is built from 64 unit cubes, each 1 cm x 1 cm x 1 cm. The outside of the large cube is painted red, then it is taken apart into the 64 unit cubes again. How many of the unit cubes have exactly two faces painted red?
- 22nd May 2012A cuboid has dimensions 6 cm by 4 cm by 3 cm. Calculate its volume.
- 23rd May 2012Find the nth term of the sequence 2, 5, 8, 11, ...
- 24th May 2012Complete the word equation for aerobic respiration: glucose + oxygen produces ___ + ___.
- 25th May 2012State one way that painting a garden gate helps to prevent it from rusting.
- 26th May 2012A results table has columns for 'Time (s)' and 'Temperature (degrees C)'. State which of these two variables would normally be plotted on the x-axis of a line graph.
- 27th May 2012State which planet in the Solar System is closest to the Sun.
- 28th May 2012Name the organ in the human body that produces insulin.
- 29th May 2012Which piece of apparatus should be used to measure the temperature of a liquid in an experiment?
- 30th May 2012In the same text, is the sentence "There is nothing more thrilling than floating silently above the countryside" a fact or an opinion?
- 31st May 2012Find and copy one word from 'the tide dragged its heavy silver chain across the sand' that gives the tide a human or animal-like quality.