Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
September 2012 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in September 2012, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in September 2012
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 2012What is the name for a poem with no regular rhyme scheme or fixed rhythm?
- 2nd September 2012A character 'counted his steps instead of looking down.' What does this suggest about his feelings?
- 3rd September 2012Which punctuation mark is missing, and where, from this sentence: Please bring your pencil case ruler and calculator to the exam.
- 4th September 2012A writer describes a current as "dragging greedy fingers along the wreck." Name the technique used here.
- 5th September 2012A rectangle has length 9 cm and width 6 cm. Work out its area and its perimeter.
- 6th September 2012A box of 15 chocolates costs 4.50 pounds. Work out the cost of one chocolate.
- 7th September 2012Work out 56 / 7.
- 8th September 2012In a right-angled triangle, the angle at A is 27 degrees and the opposite side is 6 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse, to 1 decimal place.
- 9th September 2012Work out 3/4 of 148.
- 10th September 2012Share 156 pounds between two people in the ratio 7:6.
- 11th September 2012A floor is tiled with a repeating pattern of identical regular hexagonal tiles, with no gaps or overlaps. State the size of each interior angle of a regular hexagon, and explain why regular hexagons can tile a flat floor exactly.
- 12th September 2012Convert 4.2 metres into centimetres.
- 13th September 2012Rearrange the formula P = 2l + 2w to make w the subject.
- 14th September 2012State one way the alveoli are adapted for efficient gas exchange.
- 15th September 2012Explain why attaching a block of zinc to the hull of a steel ship helps to protect the ship from rusting.
- 16th September 2012Define the terms 'solute' and 'solvent'.
- 17th September 2012Name the force that causes objects to fall towards the ground when dropped.
- 18th September 2012Name the gas that makes up approximately 78% of the Earth's atmosphere.
- 19th September 2012A thermometer has graduations every 1 degree C. A student takes a single temperature reading of 40 degrees C. Calculate the percentage uncertainty in this reading.
- 20th September 2012A text about coral reefs moves from explaining what coral is, to how reefs form, to why they are under threat. What is this structure called?
- 21st September 2012Explain why a poet might use short, one-word lines to describe a sudden event, such as an accident.
- 22nd September 2012A poem compares grief to 'a stone carried in the pocket, never quite forgotten.' Name this technique.
- 23rd September 2012Correct the tense error: Last week, the choir practises for two hours every evening.
- 24th September 2012Punctuate this exchange between two speakers, starting a new line for each: are you ready asked sam almost said priya
- 25th September 2012Which two poetic techniques appear in the line 'The streetlamp's silver stare slid over its fur'?
- 26th September 2012A travel article is written for a general newspaper audience rather than for expert climbers. How might its vocabulary and level of detail differ from a specialist mountaineering magazine?
- 27th September 2012On a distance-time graph, a cyclist's journey is shown as a horizontal line for 15 minutes. What does this tell you about the cyclist during this time?
- 28th September 2012The nth term of a sequence is 5n - 2. Work out the 15th term.
- 29th September 2012Find 35% of 180.
- 30th September 20123/4 of a number is 54. Work out 5/6 of the same number.