Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
August 2013 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in August 2013, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in August 2013
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2013State the name of a reaction in which a more reactive metal displaces a less reactive metal from a compound.
- 2nd August 2013A writer describes a bell as 'clanging its complaint into the empty square.' Name the poetic or literary technique used here.
- 3rd August 2013Add the correct negative prefix to make this word mean 'not legal': legal.
- 4th August 2013Choose the correct word: We had ___ time to finish the test than we expected. (less / fewer)
- 5th August 2013What is the name for a poem written in stanzas of two lines each?
- 6th August 2013Explain why a poet might choose short, one-syllable words to describe the strike of a hammer, rather than longer, softer words.
- 7th August 2013A climber notices 'his fingers had gone from cold to strangely warm.' What might this detail suggest to an alert reader?
- 8th August 2013Choose the correct homophone to complete the sentence: The dog wagged ___ tail happily. (its / it's)
- 9th August 2013A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how a writer builds a sense of danger across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 10th August 2013Without a calculator, work out 15% of 180.
- 11th August 2013Work out 40% of 65.
- 12th August 2013A jacket costs 65 pounds. Work out the cost after a 20% discount.
- 13th August 2013p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 8, p = 9. Work out p when q = 6.
- 14th August 2013Write 0.35 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 15th August 2013Work out 5/6 of 90.
- 16th August 2013A rectangular field measuring 60 m by 40 m is to be divided into identical square plots, as large as possible, with no land left over. Work out the side length of each square plot, and the total number of plots.
- 17th August 2013A rectangle has length 9.2 cm and width 6.8 cm. Calculate its perimeter.
- 18th August 2013A pattern of dots grows so that pattern 1 has 4 dots, pattern 2 has 7 dots, and pattern 3 has 10 dots. How many dots will pattern 6 have?
- 19th August 2013Put these structures in the order air passes through them when breathing in, starting from the windpipe: alveoli, bronchi, trachea, bronchioles.
- 20th August 2013A piece of magnesium ribbon is added to silver nitrate solution. State whether a displacement reaction would occur, and explain why.
- 21st August 2013Explain how a person is able to see a book resting on a table in a well-lit room, in terms of light rays.
- 22nd August 2013Explain one way in which a polar bear's thick white fur helps it survive in the Arctic.
- 23rd August 2013State the pH value of a neutral solution, such as pure water.
- 24th August 2013A student reads the volume of liquid in a measuring cylinder. The bottom of the meniscus lines up exactly halfway between the 22 cm^3 and 24 cm^3 graduation marks. State the volume of liquid.
- 25th August 2013A non-fiction text about volcanoes uses the heading "How an Eruption Happens." What is the purpose of this heading?
- 26th August 2013What is the name for a poem written in three-line stanzas?
- 27th August 2013A poem has four-line stanzas with an ABAB rhyme scheme throughout. What effect might this regular structure have on the reader?
- 28th August 2013Insert a colon in the correct place: The kit list included the following items a torch, a compass and a whistle.
- 29th August 2013Correct the subject-verb agreement error: The team of swimmers were training every morning.
- 30th August 2013A poem compares the fox's eyes to 'two small, cold coins.' Name this technique.
- 31st August 2013A newspaper report about a school's new library states: 'The library, funded entirely by a single anonymous donation, opened its doors last Tuesday.' What retrieval detail answers the question, how was the library funded?