Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
October 2013 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in October 2013, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in October 2013
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2013A train travels 245 km in 3.5 hours. Work out its average speed.
- 2nd October 2013Calculate the simple interest earned on 600 pounds saved for 3 years at an annual rate of 4%.
- 3rd October 2013Name the specialised cell in humans that is adapted with a long tail and many mitochondria to swim toward an egg cell.
- 4th October 2013State what happens to a catalyst during a chemical reaction.
- 5th October 2013A wind turbine and a coal power station both generate electricity, but only one of them directly burns fuel to boil water into steam. State which one this is, and name the component that this steam turns.
- 6th October 2013A car accelerates from rest to 20 m/s in 4 s. Calculate its acceleration, using acceleration = change in velocity / time.
- 7th October 2013A trolley of mass 2 kg is raised to a height of 5 m. Use GPE = mass x gravitational field strength x height (g = 10 N/kg) to calculate its gravitational potential energy.
- 8th October 2013Name the planet in our solar system that is closest to the Sun.
- 9th October 2013Add an apostrophe in the correct place: The two teams kits were both muddy after the match. (There is one kit set per team, and two teams in total.)
- 10th October 2013A four-mark question asks you to explain the effect of the writer's language in one paragraph. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
- 11th October 2013A question asks you to "find and copy one word" meaning "silent." Which of these fits: "hushed", "loud", "busy" or "bright"?
- 12th October 2013Identify the four stages of a well-structured short narrative.
- 13th October 2013Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: dont go near the big wheel warned tom its not safe
- 14th October 2013A speaker opens with a short, true story about one shy pupil who became the club's best speaker. What is this technique called?
- 15th October 2013A speech opens with the line: 'Imagine losing your home in a single night.' What technique is this, and why is it an effective opening?
- 16th October 2013List all the factors of 30, and state the highest common factor (HCF) of 30 and 45.
- 17th October 2013p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 4, p = 15. Work out the value of p when q = 10.
- 18th October 2013Simplify 7x - 3y + 2x + 8y.
- 19th October 2013A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 7 cm and 24 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 20th October 2013A bag contains 9 red, 8 blue and 7 green counters only. A counter is picked at random. Work out the probability it is green, giving your answer as a decimal to 3 significant figures.
- 21st October 2013Work out 15% of 340 pounds.
- 22nd October 2013Work out 8.3 x 5.2, giving your answer to 1 decimal place.
- 23rd October 2013Simplify the ratio 45:60.
- 24th October 2013A netball team played 20 matches. The table shows goals scored per match. Goals: 0, 1, 2, 3. Frequency: 4, 7, 6, 3. Calculate the mean number of goals per match.
- 25th October 2013A slice of toast contains 12 g of carbohydrate, 4 g of protein and 3 g of fat. Each gram of carbohydrate and each gram of protein provides 4 kcal of energy, and each gram of fat provides 9 kcal. Calculate the total energy content of the toast.
- 26th October 2013Name the technique used to separate sand from a mixture of sand and water.
- 27th October 2013Ben has a mass of 12 kg. Calculate his weight on Earth. Use weight = mass x gravitational field strength, with g = 10 N/kg.
- 28th October 2013State whether burning magnesium ribbon in air to form magnesium oxide is a physical change or a chemical change, and give a reason.
- 29th October 2013Using the reactivity series, state whether iron would react with a solution of copper sulfate, given that iron is more reactive than copper.
- 30th October 2013Name the process of cell division that produces two genetically identical daughter cells for growth and repair.
- 31st October 2013A pupil uses a stopwatch to measure how long a candle takes to burn down by 1 cm, but forgets to shield the candle from a draught in the room. State whether this makes the result less reliable or less valid, and explain your answer.