Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
October 2012 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in October 2012, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in October 2012
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2012Work out the size of each interior angle of a regular decagon (10 sides).
- 2nd October 2012Simplify sqrt(45) + sqrt(20), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(5).
- 3rd October 2012A chord subtends an angle of 76 degrees at the centre of a circle. Work out the angle it subtends at the circumference, on the major arc.
- 4th October 2012A journey of 84 km takes 1 hour 45 minutes. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 5th October 2012A car travels 210 km in 3.5 hours at a constant speed. Calculate how far it would travel in 5 hours at the same speed.
- 6th October 2012Name the joint type found in the hip, and state one other place in the body where this same joint type is found.
- 7th October 2012Complete the word equation: hydrochloric acid + sodium hydroxide produces ___ + ___.
- 8th October 2012A torch bulb has a resistance of 15 ohms and a current of 0.2 A flows through it. Use V = I x R to calculate the voltage across the bulb.
- 9th October 2012Name the salt formed when hydrochloric acid reacts with sodium hydroxide.
- 10th October 2012A pupil wants to measure the current flowing through a lamp in a circuit. Name the piece of apparatus she needs, and state whether it should be connected in series or in parallel with the lamp.
- 11th October 2012State whether an acid has a pH value above or below 7.
- 12th October 2012A hazard symbol shows a skull and crossbones on an orange background. State what hazard this represents.
- 13th October 2012A writer describes the wind as "clawing at their jackets, determined to drag them off the mountain." Name the technique used here.
- 14th October 2012What do the letters PAF stand for when analysing a non-fiction text?
- 15th October 2012A newspaper report about a restored pier states: 'Engineers replaced over eleven thousand individual timbers during the two-year project.' What retrieval detail answers the question, how many timbers were replaced?
- 16th October 2012Give one example of a statistic a writer might use to persuade readers to use fewer plastic bags.
- 17th October 2012Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The wind howled, and the shutters rattled.'
- 18th October 2012Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "The train arrived late."
- 19th October 2012Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: fresh bread the baker called still warm from the oven
- 20th October 2012Find the median and the range of this data set: 7, 3, 9, 3, 12, 5.
- 21st October 2012In a right-angled triangle, the angle at A is 32 degrees and the adjacent side is 9 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse, to 1 decimal place.
- 22nd October 2012A cylindrical tin has radius 4 cm and height 15 cm. Work out its volume, to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 23rd October 2012Simplify the ratio 32:12.
- 24th October 2012A class recorded how many books each of 25 students read in a month: 5 students read 0-2 books, 12 students read 3-5 books, and 8 students read 6-8 books. Using midpoints 1, 4 and 7, estimate the mean number of books read.
- 25th October 2012Prove that the sum of any three consecutive integers is always a multiple of 3.
- 26th October 2012Factorise fully 10x + 15.
- 27th October 2012Work out 2^5 - 3^3.
- 28th October 2012A meal out costs 68 pounds before a 12.5% service charge is added. Calculate the total cost including the service charge.
- 29th October 2012In pea plants, the allele for tall (T) is dominant over the allele for short (t). State the possible genotype(s) of a tall pea plant.
- 30th October 2012State two factors, other than using a catalyst, that increase the rate of a reaction between a solid and a solution.
- 31st October 2012A skateboarder travels at a constant speed of 4 m/s for 6 seconds. Use acceleration = change in velocity / time taken to state his acceleration during this time, and explain what an acceleration of zero means about his motion.