Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
July 2014 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in July 2014, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in July 2014
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 2014Name the food group that provides the body with the most energy per gram.
- 2nd July 2014State the property used to arrange the elements in order in the modern periodic table.
- 3rd July 2014Put these bodies in order of their distance from the Sun, starting with the closest: Mars, Mercury, Earth, Venus.
- 4th July 2014State whether elements in the same group of the periodic table have similar or very different chemical properties.
- 5th July 2014Calculate the mean of these three repeat readings of a force: 4.2 N, 4.6 N, 4.4 N.
- 6th July 2014A circuit has a total resistance of 12 ohm and a current of 0.5 A flowing through it. Use V = I x R to calculate the voltage across the circuit.
- 7th July 2014A character says 'I'm fine' through gritted teeth, then slams the door. Explain what the contrast between the character's words and actions suggests.
- 8th July 2014Correct the spelling error caused by a missing doubled consonant: 'I am hopping to finish my homework before dinner' (meaning expecting, not jumping).
- 9th July 2014Correct the tense error: 'Last week, she swims to the buoy and back without stopping.'
- 10th July 2014A poem has irregular line lengths and no rhyme scheme, but a steady, insistent rhythm created by repeating the same three-syllable phrase. What technique creates this effect?
- 11th July 2014What is the name for a poem with no regular rhyme scheme or fixed rhythm?
- 12th July 2014A character 'counted his steps instead of looking down.' What does this suggest about his feelings?
- 13th July 2014This sentence contains a comma splice: The rain started early, we cancelled the picnic. Correct it in one way.
- 14th July 2014A writer describes a current as "dragging greedy fingers along the wreck." Name the technique used here.
- 15th July 2014The probability that a spinner lands on red is 0.35. Work out the probability that it does not land on red.
- 16th July 2014A box of 15 chocolates costs 4.50 pounds. Work out the cost of one chocolate.
- 17th July 2014Work out 56 / 7.
- 18th July 2014In a right-angled triangle, the angle at A is 27 degrees and the opposite side is 6 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse, to 1 decimal place.
- 19th July 2014Work out 3/4 of 148.
- 20th July 2014Share 156 pounds between two people in the ratio 7:6.
- 21st July 2014A cube with side length 4 cm is built from 64 unit cubes, each 1 cm x 1 cm x 1 cm. The outside of the large cube is painted red, then it is taken apart into the 64 unit cubes again. How many of the unit cubes have exactly two faces painted red?
- 22nd July 2014Convert 4.2 metres into centimetres.
- 23rd July 2014Using the formula v = u + at, find v when u = 5, a = 3 and t = 4.
- 24th July 2014Complete the word equation for aerobic respiration: glucose + oxygen produces ___ + ___.
- 25th July 2014State one way that painting a garden gate helps to prevent it from rusting.
- 26th July 2014A pupil rubs a plastic rod with a cloth, giving the rod a negative electric charge. She then holds the rod near small pieces of paper on a table. State what she would observe, and explain why, in terms of electric charge.
- 27th July 2014In the food chain grass, rabbit, fox, where grass is eaten by rabbits and rabbits are eaten by foxes, name the organism that is the producer.
- 28th July 2014Name the organ in the human body that produces insulin.
- 29th July 2014A thermometer has graduations every 1 degree C. A student takes a single temperature reading of 40 degrees C. Calculate the percentage uncertainty in this reading.
- 30th July 2014A text about coral reefs moves from explaining what coral is, to how reefs form, to why they are under threat. What is this structure called?
- 31st July 2014Explain why a poet might use short, one-word lines to describe a sudden event, such as an accident.