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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.

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September 2012

30 sheets · 150 questions · Years 7-8

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.

  1. 1st September 2012What is the name for a poem with no regular rhyme scheme or fixed rhythm?
  2. 2nd September 2012A character 'counted his steps instead of looking down.' What does this suggest about his feelings?
  3. 3rd September 2012Which punctuation mark is missing, and where, from this sentence: Please bring your pencil case ruler and calculator to the exam.
  4. 4th September 2012A writer describes a current as "dragging greedy fingers along the wreck." Name the technique used here.
  5. 5th September 2012A rectangle has length 9 cm and width 6 cm. Work out its area and its perimeter.
  6. 6th September 2012A box of 15 chocolates costs 4.50 pounds. Work out the cost of one chocolate.
  7. 7th September 2012Work out 56 / 7.
  8. 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.
  9. 9th September 2012Work out 3/4 of 148.
  10. 10th September 2012Share 156 pounds between two people in the ratio 7:6.
  11. 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.
  12. 12th September 2012Convert 4.2 metres into centimetres.
  13. 13th September 2012Rearrange the formula P = 2l + 2w to make w the subject.
  14. 14th September 2012State one way the alveoli are adapted for efficient gas exchange.
  15. 15th September 2012Explain why attaching a block of zinc to the hull of a steel ship helps to protect the ship from rusting.
  16. 16th September 2012Define the terms 'solute' and 'solvent'.
  17. 17th September 2012Name the force that causes objects to fall towards the ground when dropped.
  18. 18th September 2012Name the gas that makes up approximately 78% of the Earth's atmosphere.
  19. 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.
  20. 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?
  21. 21st September 2012Explain why a poet might use short, one-word lines to describe a sudden event, such as an accident.
  22. 22nd September 2012A poem compares grief to 'a stone carried in the pocket, never quite forgotten.' Name this technique.
  23. 23rd September 2012Correct the tense error: Last week, the choir practises for two hours every evening.
  24. 24th September 2012Punctuate this exchange between two speakers, starting a new line for each: are you ready asked sam almost said priya
  25. 25th September 2012Which two poetic techniques appear in the line 'The streetlamp's silver stare slid over its fur'?
  26. 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?
  27. 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?
  28. 28th September 2012The nth term of a sequence is 5n - 2. Work out the 15th term.
  29. 29th September 2012Find 35% of 180.
  30. 30th September 20123/4 of a number is 54. Work out 5/6 of the same number.