Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
August 2014 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in August 2014, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in August 2014
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2014A poem compares grief to 'a stone carried in the pocket, never quite forgotten.' Name this technique.
- 2nd August 2014Correct the tense error: Last week, the choir practises for two hours every evening.
- 3rd August 2014Punctuate this exchange between two speakers, starting a new line for each: are you ready asked sam almost said priya
- 4th August 2014Which two poetic techniques appear in the line 'The streetlamp's silver stare slid over its fur'?
- 5th August 2014Give one feature, other than headings, that a factual magazine article might use to help organise information for the reader.
- 6th August 2014Find the midpoint of the line segment joining (-4, 2) and (6, -8).
- 7th August 2014A phone contract costs 18.50 pounds per month for 24 months, plus an upfront cost of 49 pounds. Work out the total cost of the contract.
- 8th August 2014Find 35% of 180.
- 9th August 2014Solve 3(2x - 1) = x + 17.
- 10th August 2014Describe the locus of points that are equidistant from two fixed points, A and B.
- 11th August 2014Simplify sqrt(45) + sqrt(20), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(5).
- 12th August 2014A chord subtends an angle of 76 degrees at the centre of a circle. Work out the angle it subtends at the circumference, on the major arc.
- 13th August 2014A journey of 84 km takes 1 hour 45 minutes. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 14th August 2014A car travels 210 km in 3.5 hours at a constant speed. Calculate how far it would travel in 5 hours at the same speed.
- 15th August 2014A doctor records that a foetus is 38 weeks old. Given that human gestation lasts approximately 40 weeks, state approximately how many weeks of pregnancy remain.
- 16th August 2014A student adds a piece of unknown grey solid to dilute acid and no bubbles are produced, even after several minutes. Suggest whether the solid is a metal or a non-metal, and explain your reasoning.
- 17th August 2014State one way, other than increasing the current, to increase the strength of an electromagnet made from a coil of wire around an iron core.
- 18th August 2014State what happens to the current in a series circuit if an extra identical bulb is added, assuming the battery voltage stays the same.
- 19th August 2014Name the organ system that carries electrical signals around the body to allow a fast reflex reaction, such as pulling a hand away from something hot.
- 20th August 2014Name the gas needed by the body for aerobic respiration to take place.
- 21st August 2014A student investigates how the mass of five different metal samples affects their volume, with mass as a continuous numerical variable. State whether a bar chart or a line graph is the more appropriate way to display these results.
- 22nd August 2014A writer describes the wind as "clawing at their jackets, determined to drag them off the mountain." Name the technique used here.
- 23rd August 2014What do the letters PAF stand for when analysing a non-fiction text?
- 24th August 2014A newspaper report about a restored pier states: 'Engineers replaced over eleven thousand individual timbers during the two-year project.' What retrieval detail answers the question, how many timbers were replaced?
- 25th August 2014Give one example of a statistic a writer might use to persuade readers to use fewer plastic bags.
- 26th August 2014Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The wind howled, and the shutters rattled.'
- 27th August 2014Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "The train arrived late."
- 28th August 2014Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: fresh bread the baker called still warm from the oven
- 29th August 2014A fair six-sided dice is rolled once. Find the probability of rolling a number greater than 4.
- 30th August 2014In a right-angled triangle, the angle at A is 32 degrees and the adjacent side is 9 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse, to 1 decimal place.
- 31st August 2014A cylindrical tin has radius 4 cm and height 15 cm. Work out its volume, to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)