Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
August 2012 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in August 2012, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in August 2012
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2012State whether the main force acting when a compass needle points north is a contact force or a non-contact force.
- 2nd August 2012State the name given to a substance that speeds up a chemical reaction without being permanently used up itself.
- 3rd August 2012State one advantage of using solar power to generate electricity, compared with burning fossil fuels.
- 4th August 2012Name the part of a plant cell, not found in an animal cell, that carries out photosynthesis.
- 5th August 2012A pupil wants to find out whether increasing the concentration of a salt solution affects the boiling point of water. Suggest one variable, other than salt concentration, that should be kept the same for this to be a fair test.
- 6th August 2012Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: dont go any further whispered grace something isnt right down here
- 7th August 2012Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The fog rolled in, and the harbour lights dimmed to a blur.'
- 8th August 2012A five-mark question asks you to explain how the writer builds a sense of frustration across the whole extract. What should your answer cover?
- 9th August 2012A question is worth 3 marks and asks you to explain the effect of a description. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
- 10th August 2012If a poem's rhythm becomes short and broken in its final stanza after being steady throughout, what might this suggest?
- 11th August 2012Name the technique used in this line: New worlds. New characters. New ideas, every single time.
- 12th August 2012If a poem starts with long, flowing lines and ends with very short, clipped lines, what effect might this create?
- 13th August 2012Calculate the area of a circle with a diameter of 20 cm. Use pi = 3.14.
- 14th August 2012Simplify 6a + 9 - 2a - 4.
- 15th August 2012Simplify 4(2x - 3) + 5.
- 16th August 2012A stall sells 4 sandwiches at 2.20 pounds each and 3 drinks at 1.10 pounds each. Work out the total cost, without a calculator.
- 17th August 2012Write the ratio 16:24 in its simplest form.
- 18th August 2012Work out 8 x 6.
- 19th August 2012Find 3/5 of 45.
- 20th August 2012Work out 15 x 14, using a written method.
- 21st August 2012Find 3/4 of 88.
- 22nd August 2012State one way the xylem is adapted for transporting water up a plant.
- 23rd August 2012In a chromatography experiment, the solvent front travels 10 cm and a dye spot travels 4 cm. Calculate the Rf value of the dye.
- 24th August 2012State why an astronaut in open space, far from any planet or star, cannot hear an explosion happening nearby.
- 25th August 2012Name the green pigment found in chloroplasts that absorbs light energy for photosynthesis.
- 26th August 2012State the name given to a chemical reaction that releases heat energy to the surroundings.
- 27th August 2012State the products formed when a metal reacts with an acid.
- 28th August 2012A character says 'I'm fine' through gritted teeth, then slams the door. Explain what the contrast between the character's words and actions suggests.
- 29th August 2012Correct the spelling error caused by a missing doubled consonant: 'I am hopping to finish my homework before dinner' (meaning expecting, not jumping).
- 30th August 2012Correct the tense error: 'Last week, she swims to the buoy and back without stopping.'
- 31st August 2012A poem has irregular line lengths and no rhyme scheme, but a steady, insistent rhythm created by repeating the same three-syllable phrase. What technique creates this effect?