Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
February 2013 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in February 2013, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in February 2013
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 2013Name the type of teeth used mainly for cutting food.
- 2nd February 2013State why it is good practice to run a quick preliminary (trial) experiment before starting the main investigation.
- 3rd February 2013A question asks you to "find and copy one word" meaning "extremely cold." Which of these fits: "freezing", "mild", "warm" or "humid"?
- 4th February 2013A factual article about volcanic islands is broken into sections titled 'How islands form', 'Life on the slopes' and 'Living with the risk'. What are these called, and what is their purpose?
- 5th February 2013You are asked to summarise a whole article in two sentences. What should you prioritise including?
- 6th February 2013Is the claim 'recycling is clearly the most important thing you can do for the planet' a fact or an opinion?
- 7th February 2013Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'Because the tide was rising, the children ran back up the beach.'
- 8th February 2013Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: mind the gap called the guard as the doors slid shut
- 9th February 2013Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "A trader called out his prices, and shoppers began to gather."
- 10th February 2013Find the mean of these test scores: 14, 18, 12, 20, 16.
- 11th February 2013p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 3, p = 20. Work out p when q = 12.
- 12th February 2013Find the midpoint of the line segment joining A(2, -3) and B(-6, 9).
- 13th February 2013A train journey of 175 km takes 2.5 hours at a constant speed. Work out the speed in km/h.
- 14th February 2013Two hockey teams recorded the number of goals they scored in their last 5 matches. Team A: 2, 3, 2, 4, 4. Team B: 0, 1, 5, 6, 3. Compare the two teams by working out the mean and the range for each.
- 15th February 2013Simplify sqrt(50) - sqrt(8), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(2).
- 16th February 2013Simplify 6a + 4b - 2a + 5b.
- 17th February 2013A car depreciates by 15% each year. It is worth 20,000 pounds now. Work out its value after 1 year.
- 18th February 2013Find 35% of 160 pounds.
- 19th February 2013A pupil views onion cells under a microscope after adding a drop of iodine solution to the slide. State why the iodine solution was added.
- 20th February 2013A student dissolves ammonium nitrate in water and the temperature of the solution falls. State whether this process is exothermic or endothermic.
- 21st February 2013A runner covers 400 m in 50 seconds at a constant speed. Use speed = distance / time to calculate her speed.
- 22nd February 2013Some endothermic reactions cause the temperature of their surroundings to fall. Explain, in terms of energy, why this happens.
- 23rd February 2013Name the process by which plants lose water vapour from their leaves.
- 24th February 2013Name the process used to neutralise an acid using an alkali.
- 25th February 2013Choose the correct homophone to complete the sentence: The team celebrated ___ victory together. (their / there / they're)
- 26th February 2013An apprentice is described as 'chewing the inside of his cheek and avoiding his master's eye.' What does this suggest about how he feels?
- 27th February 2013Which word means the same as "cluttered" in a sentence describing a messy attic: "crammed", "empty", "tidy" or "spacious"?
- 28th February 2013Rewrite this line of dialogue to remove the overused adverb, showing the emotion instead: 'I'm not scared,' she said bravely.