Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
June 2013 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in June 2013, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in June 2013
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st June 2013Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "Although the platform was crowded, Amara found a seat by the window."
- 2nd June 2013Identify the fronted adverbial in this sentence: "Slowly, the shutters were raised one by one."
- 3rd June 2013Two coins are flipped at the same time. List all the possible outcomes, and find the probability of getting exactly one head.
- 4th June 2013Write 3.6 x 10^-3 as an ordinary number.
- 5th June 2013A laptop valued at 900 pounds depreciates by 12% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 6th June 2013Work out -15 + 4 x (-2).
- 7th June 2013A spinner can land on red, blue, green or yellow only. P(red) = 0.3, P(blue) = 0.25, P(green) = 0.2. Work out P(yellow).
- 8th June 2013The product of two consecutive positive integers is 132. Find the two integers.
- 9th June 2013Here are the first four terms of a sequence: 7, 11, 15, 19. Find an expression for the nth term.
- 10th June 2013Find the mean of 14, 18, 22, 16 and 20.
- 11th June 2013A 750 gram box of cereal costs 2.40 pounds, and a 500 gram box of the same cereal costs 1.70 pounds. Which box offers better value for money? Show your working.
- 12th June 2013A cell has a real width of 0.02 mm. In a drawing, the same cell is shown 4 mm wide. Calculate the magnification of the drawing.
- 13th June 2013Explain, using collision theory, why crushing a solid into a powder increases the rate of reaction.
- 14th June 2013State whether solar power is a renewable or a non-renewable energy resource.
- 15th June 2013A book rests on a table and does not move. Name the force from the table that balances the book's weight.
- 16th June 2013Name the group in the periodic table that contains helium, neon and argon.
- 17th June 2013A pupil measures a mass of 3.5 kg on a set of scales. Convert this mass to grams.
- 18th June 2013Which sentence uses a semicolon correctly? A) The whistle blew; and the players stopped. B) The whistle blew; the players stopped at once.
- 19th June 2013A question asks you to 'find and copy one word which shows that the workshop was untidy.' What kind of question is this, and how should you answer it?
- 20th June 2013A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how a writer builds atmosphere across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 21st June 2013Which of these would best speed up the pace of an action scene: a long sentence with several clauses, or a short, three-word sentence?
- 22nd June 2013Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for 'the funfair at midnight.'
- 23rd June 2013Is the claim 'debating is clearly the single best way to build confidence' a fact or an opinion?
- 24th June 2013A charity advert says: 'You could change a child's life today.' Which word directly addresses the reader, and what effect does this have?
- 25th June 2013Work out (-5) + (-8) - (-6).
- 26th June 2013Write 0.00042 in standard form.
- 27th June 2013Find 3/8 of 64.
- 28th June 2013Write 0.000078 in standard form.
- 29th June 2013A cylindrical bucket has radius 12 cm and height 25 cm. Work out its volume, to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 30th June 2013Work out sqrt(169) + 4^2.