Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
December 2012 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in December 2012, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in December 2012
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 2012A question asks you to "compare how the two poets present the sea." What is the best way to structure your answer?
- 2nd December 2012Give one example of emotive language a writer might use to persuade pupils that reading is enjoyable rather than a chore.
- 3rd December 2012In the line "Icicles hang like daggers from the eaves", which technique is used?
- 4th December 2012An L-shaped room is made from a 6 m by 4 m rectangle with a 2 m by 3 m rectangle removed from one corner. Calculate the area of the room.
- 5th December 2012Find 30% of 150.
- 6th December 2012Work out 13^2.
- 7th December 2012Find 5/6 of 72.
- 8th December 2012A recipe for 4 people uses 200g of butter. How much butter is needed for 10 people?
- 9th December 2012A tap fills a bucket at a constant rate of 3 litres every 2 minutes. Work out how many litres it fills in 10 minutes.
- 10th December 2012Calculate 74 - 38.
- 11th December 2012Work out -7 + 15.
- 12th December 2012A journey of 240 km takes 4 hours at a constant speed. Work out the speed in km/h.
- 13th December 2012State one way a communicable disease differs from a non-communicable disease.
- 14th December 2012State the name given to a horizontal row of the periodic table.
- 15th December 2012A cliff is 170 m from a person who claps and hears the echo. Use distance = speed x time and a speed of sound of 340 m/s to calculate how long after the clap the echo is heard.
- 16th December 2012State the number of protons found in an atom of oxygen, given that oxygen's atomic number is 8.
- 17th December 2012A pupil records the mass of a beaker of ice every 2 minutes as it melts. State which variable is the independent variable in this investigation.
- 18th December 2012Name the three states of matter.
- 19th December 2012A question is worth 4 marks and asks you to explain the effect of a writer's language in a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 20th December 2012Which punctuation mark correctly joins these two related sentences into one: 'The rain finally stopped ___ the match could go ahead after all.'
- 21st December 2012Add a hyphen where needed: a ten year old girl won the competition.
- 22nd December 2012Explain why a poet might end a poem about autumn with a single short line, such as 'Then, silence.'
- 23rd December 2012A poem has three-line stanzas with no rhyme at all. What effect might this irregular structure create?
- 24th December 2012A climber 'gripped the rope until his knuckles turned white, then made himself let go, one finger at a time.' What does this suggest about the difficulty of what he is doing?
- 25th December 2012Correct the punctuation in this sentence, which reports direct speech: she shouted watch out and pulled her brother back from the road
- 26th December 2012Which word means the same as "enormous" in a sentence describing a huge shipwreck: "colossal", "tiny", "narrow" or "shallow"?
- 27th December 2012Find 2/5 of 65.
- 28th December 2012Work out 9 x 8.
- 29th December 2012Work out (4 + 3) x (9 - 5).
- 30th December 2012y is directly proportional to x^2. When x = 4, y = 32. Work out y when x = 6.
- 31st December 2012Write the ratio 18:24 in its simplest form.