Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
January 2014 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in January 2014, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in January 2014
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2014State two functions of the human skeleton.
- 2nd January 2014Describe the test for carbon dioxide gas, and state the positive result.
- 3rd January 2014A wave has a frequency of 50 Hz and a wavelength of 4 m. Use wave speed = frequency x wavelength to calculate its speed.
- 4th January 2014State the pH of a neutral solution such as pure water.
- 5th January 2014State whether the Earth casting a shadow that blocks sunlight from reaching the Moon is called a solar eclipse or a lunar eclipse.
- 6th January 2014A pupil measures the resultant force on an object as 0 N even though several forces are acting on it. State the term used to describe forces in this situation.
- 7th January 2014State the name given to a value read from a graph that lies between two points that were actually measured.
- 8th January 2014A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how the writer builds a sense of danger across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 9th January 2014A travel article is written for a general newspaper audience rather than for expert climbers. How might its vocabulary and level of detail differ from a specialist mountaineering magazine?
- 10th January 2014In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The submersible's hull must withstand immense pressure at such depths, where a single flaw could prove catastrophic.' What does 'catastrophic' mean here?
- 11th January 2014Name the technique used in this slogan: Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.
- 12th January 2014Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for 'the alleyway at dusk.'
- 13th January 2014Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: "The station was BUSY."
- 14th January 2014Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for "the fruit stall."
- 15th January 2014A coin is flipped 200 times and lands on heads 118 times. Calculate the relative frequency of landing on heads.
- 16th January 2014A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 5 cm and 12 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 17th January 2014The nth term of a sequence is 4n + 3. Work out the 20th term.
- 18th January 2014Work out 84 / 12.
- 19th January 2014A researcher wants to find the average pocket money received by pupils at a school, so she surveys only the pupils waiting outside the head teacher's office. Give one reason this is likely to produce a biased sample.
- 20th January 2014A triangle is inscribed in a circle so that one of its sides is a diameter of the circle. Explain, using a circle theorem, why the angle at the third vertex (opposite that side) must be 90 degrees.
- 21st January 2014p = 5, q = -2. Work out the value of 3p + q.
- 22nd January 2014A bag has 4 yellow and 6 purple counters. Find the probability of picking a purple counter.
- 23rd January 2014Write 3/8 as a percentage.
- 24th January 2014On a microscope, the eyepiece lens has a magnification of x10 and the objective lens in use has a magnification of x40. Calculate the total magnification.
- 25th January 2014In the disappearing cross experiment, a student times how long it takes for a cross under the flask to disappear from view. Explain why a shorter time indicates a faster reaction.
- 26th January 2014State one reason, other than cost, why a country might want to reduce its reliance on non-renewable energy resources such as coal and oil.
- 27th January 2014State whether a frog is classified as a vertebrate or an invertebrate, and give a reason.
- 28th January 2014A solid is heated until it turns directly into a gas without becoming a liquid first. Name this change of state.
- 29th January 2014State the approximate time it takes for light from the Sun to reach the Earth.
- 30th January 2014This sentence contains a comma splice: The match ended in a draw, both teams were happy. Correct it in one way.
- 31st January 2014In an extract, a character 'set down his tools without a word and walked out into the rain.' What might this action suggest about his state of mind?