Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
January 2013 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in January 2013, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in January 2013
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2013Work out 8.4 x 6, using a written method.
- 2nd January 2013In a class of 30 pupils, 18 play football, 14 play tennis, and 7 play both football and tennis. How many pupils play neither football nor tennis?
- 3rd January 2013State the order of rotational symmetry and the number of lines of symmetry of a regular pentagon.
- 4th January 2013The nth term of a sequence is 5n - 2. Find the 12th term.
- 5th January 2013Name the enzyme that digests starch, and state the product it is broken down into.
- 6th January 2013Name the gas released when fossil fuels are burned that is the main cause of the enhanced greenhouse effect.
- 7th January 2013Name the organs whose main job is to filter waste products out of the blood and produce urine.
- 8th January 2013Name the continuous process by which rocks are broken down, transported, deposited, and can eventually reform into new rock types.
- 9th January 2013Name the force that opposes the motion of an object moving through air.
- 10th January 2013Amara is investigating how the mass of a paper cone affects how long it takes to fall from a fixed height. State the independent variable and the dependent variable in this investigation.
- 11th January 2013In a factual text, is the sentence "Hot air balloons were first flown in France in 1783" a fact or an opinion?
- 12th January 2013A poem repeats the phrase 'and still it climbed' at the end of every stanza. What is this technique called, and what might its effect be?
- 13th January 2013Find and copy one word from the phrase 'the old clock ticked its patient rhythm' that gives the clock a human quality.
- 14th January 2013Which punctuation mark correctly joins these two sentences without adding a joining word: 'The coach was late the pupils waited in the hall.'?
- 15th January 2013Choose the correct word: I'm not sure ___ my umbrella is. (where / were / we're)
- 16th January 2013A poem is written in a single, unbroken stanza with no rhyme. What effect might this create?
- 17th January 2013You are asked to summarise a paragraph in one sentence. What is the biggest risk to avoid?
- 18th January 2013A conversion graph shows that 5 miles is equivalent to 8 kilometres. Using this scale, convert 20 miles to kilometres.
- 19th January 2013A cylindrical water butt has a radius of 35 cm and a height of 120 cm. Work out its volume, giving your answer in cm^3 to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 20th January 2013Write 0.72 as a percentage.
- 21st January 2013Two numbers are in the ratio 4 : 7. Their sum is 66. Work out the difference between the two numbers.
- 22nd January 2013A shape is made from a rectangle measuring 12 cm by 8 cm, with a right-angled triangle of base 6 cm and height 8 cm removed from one corner. Work out the area of the remaining shape.
- 23rd January 2013A chord divides a circle so that the angle at the centre is 130 degrees. Work out the angle at the circumference subtended by the same chord, on the major arc.
- 24th January 2013Factorise 2x^2 + 7x + 3.
- 25th January 2013A recipe uses 3 eggs for every 240 g of flour. Work out how many grams of flour are needed for 7 eggs, at the same ratio.
- 26th January 2013Work out 5 + 4 x 3 - 2.
- 27th January 2013State the name of the structure that allows oxygen and nutrients to pass from a mother's blood to her developing foetus.
- 28th January 2013Name the salt produced when zinc reacts with sulfuric acid.
- 29th January 2013Name the circuit component whose symbol is a circle with a cross inside it.
- 30th January 2013Name the process by which digested food molecules pass from the small intestine into the blood.
- 31st January 2013An old-style filament light bulb transfers 100 J of electrical energy. Of this, 20 J is transferred usefully as light, and the rest is wasted as heat. Calculate the energy wasted as heat.