Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
April 2013 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in April 2013, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in April 2013
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 2013Find 10% of 95 pounds.
- 2nd April 2013Work out 9 x 8.
- 3rd April 2013A coat costs 80 pounds. It is reduced by 35% in a sale. Work out the sale price.
- 4th April 2013Work out 15% of 60.
- 5th April 2013In the food chain 'grass, rabbit, fox', name the primary consumer.
- 6th April 2013State one physical property that distinguishes a typical non-metal from a typical metal.
- 7th April 2013A ray of light travels from air into a glass block. State whether the ray bends towards the normal or away from the normal as it enters the glass.
- 8th April 2013Write the word equation for photosynthesis.
- 9th April 2013State one function of the human skeleton, other than support.
- 10th April 2013Name the enzyme found in saliva that begins the digestion of starch in the mouth.
- 11th April 2013A question asks you to 'summarise the passage in your own words.' What must you avoid doing when answering it?
- 12th April 2013Is the relative clause in this sentence defining or non-defining, and should it have commas: 'The teacher who marked our essays gave detailed feedback' (assume there are several teachers)?
- 13th April 2013Which sentence is correct if you mean you carried your umbrella with you: 'I brought my umbrella yesterday' or 'I bought my umbrella yesterday'?
- 14th April 2013Find and copy one word from 'the wind stripped the last brave leaves from the oak' that suggests the leaves were trying to resist the wind.
- 15th April 2013A poem compares old age to 'a coat grown heavy with wear.' Name this technique.
- 16th April 2013A question worth 4 marks asks you to explain the effect of a writer's description. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
- 17th April 2013Find and correct the tense error in this sentence: Yesterday, Priya walks to school and meets her friend Tom.
- 18th April 2013In an extract, a diver "checked her air gauge twice in under a minute." What does this suggest about how she is feeling?
- 19th April 2013A cinema charges 6.50 pounds for an adult ticket and 4.20 pounds for a child ticket. A family buys tickets for 2 adults and 3 children. Work out the total cost, without using a calculator.
- 20th April 2013Simplify the ratio 45:30.
- 21st April 2013Write 5:20 as a ratio in its simplest form.
- 22nd April 2013A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 9 cm and 40 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 23rd April 2013A jacket costs 64 pounds. It is reduced by 15% in a sale. Work out the sale price.
- 24th April 2013A jug holds 1.8 litres. Work out how many millilitres this is.
- 25th April 2013A dice has its six faces numbered 1 to 6, arranged so opposite faces always add up to 7. The face showing 2 is on top, and the face showing 3 is facing you. Work out which number is on the bottom face, and which number is on the face directly opposite the one facing you.
- 26th April 2013A triangle has a base of 14 cm and a perpendicular height of 5 cm. Calculate its area.
- 27th April 2013The first three terms of the triangular numbers are 1, 3, 6. If the pattern continues in the same way, what is the next term after 6?
- 28th April 2013State one way bile helps with the digestion of fats.
- 29th April 2013In the reactivity series, state which is more reactive: zinc or copper.
- 30th April 2013The Sun is much larger than the Earth. State what type of object the Sun is, and name the force that keeps the Earth in orbit around it.