Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
June 2012 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in June 2012, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in June 2012
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st June 2012Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The wind whispered through the willow'?
- 2nd June 2012Add the missing apostrophe: The three teachers offices were being redecorated. (There are three teachers, each with their own office.)
- 3rd June 2012Add a semicolon in the correct place: The bus was late the queue grew longer by the minute.
- 4th June 2012Explain why a poet might choose soft, hissing sounds, sibilance, to describe a fox moving at night, rather than harsh, hard sounds.
- 5th June 2012A biography states that a person 'left school at fourteen to support her family, and by twenty-one had opened her own shop.' What can a reader infer about this person's character from these facts?
- 6th June 2012A line has equation y = 4x - 7. Write down its gradient and its y-intercept.
- 7th June 2012A phone contract costs 18.50 pounds per month for 24 months, plus an upfront cost of 49 pounds. Work out the total cost of the contract.
- 8th June 2012Convert the recurring decimal 0.3636... (where the digits 36 recur) to a fraction in its simplest form.
- 9th June 2012Solve 3(2x - 1) = x + 17.
- 10th June 2012Describe the locus of points that are equidistant from two fixed points, A and B.
- 11th June 2012Factorise x^2 - 9x + 20.
- 12th June 2012Expand and simplify (2x - 3)(x + 4).
- 13th June 2012A car's value depreciates from 18,000 pounds to 14,400 pounds in one year. Work out the percentage decrease.
- 14th June 2012Work out 9 x 7.
- 15th June 2012A doctor records that a foetus is 38 weeks old. Given that human gestation lasts approximately 40 weeks, state approximately how many weeks of pregnancy remain.
- 16th June 2012A student adds a piece of unknown grey solid to dilute acid and no bubbles are produced, even after several minutes. Suggest whether the solid is a metal or a non-metal, and explain your reasoning.
- 17th June 2012State whether sound is a transverse wave or a longitudinal wave.
- 18th June 2012Name the organ that produces bile, which helps to digest fats.
- 19th June 2012State whether melting ice is a physical change or a chemical change, and give a reason.
- 20th June 2012Name the gas needed by the body for aerobic respiration to take place.
- 21st June 2012A student investigates how the mass of five different metal samples affects their volume, with mass as a continuous numerical variable. State whether a bar chart or a line graph is the more appropriate way to display these results.
- 22nd June 2012Which word means the same as "exhausted" in a sentence describing tired climbers: "drained", "energetic", "cheerful" or "restless"?
- 23rd June 2012A biography states that a person 'taught herself to read at six using her grandfather's newspapers, and published her first book by twenty.' What can a reader infer about this person's character from these facts?
- 24th June 2012A travel brochure and a science textbook both describe coral reefs. Which is more likely to use exaggerated, emotive language, and why?
- 25th June 2012A leaflet states 'You could help save a hundred bottles a year.' Which word directly addresses the reader?
- 26th June 2012Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The rain fell steadily.'
- 27th June 2012Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for "the suitcase on the platform."
- 28th June 2012Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "Crates of fruit lined the pavement."
- 29th June 2012A bag contains only red and yellow beads. The probability of picking a red bead is 0.65. If there are 140 beads in total, how many are yellow?
- 30th June 2012Solve x^2 - 5x + 6 = 0.