Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
April 2015 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in April 2015, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in April 2015
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 2015Name the salt formed when hydrochloric acid reacts with sodium hydroxide.
- 2nd April 2015A pupil wants to measure the current flowing through a lamp in a circuit. Name the piece of apparatus she needs, and state whether it should be connected in series or in parallel with the lamp.
- 3rd April 2015Name the type of teeth used mainly for cutting food.
- 4th April 2015State why it is good practice to run a quick preliminary (trial) experiment before starting the main investigation.
- 5th April 2015In an extract, a climber "kept checking the rope, tugging it twice before every step." What does this suggest about the climber?
- 6th April 2015In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The team faced constant setbacks - equipment failure, bad weather and dwindling supplies chipped away at morale.' What does 'dwindling' mean here?
- 7th April 2015A biography states that a scientist 'spent every evening after his factory shift teaching himself chemistry from borrowed textbooks.' What can a reader infer about this person from these facts?
- 8th April 2015An article opens with a short story about one seabird found tangled in plastic, before giving any wider statistics. What is this technique called?
- 9th April 2015Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: watch your step said the warden the path is icy
- 10th April 2015Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "Although the platform was crowded, Amara found a seat by the window."
- 11th April 2015Identify the fronted adverbial in this sentence: "Slowly, the shutters were raised one by one."
- 12th April 2015Find the median and the range of this data set: 7, 3, 9, 3, 12, 5.
- 13th April 2015Write 3.6 x 10^-3 as an ordinary number.
- 14th April 2015A laptop valued at 900 pounds depreciates by 12% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 15th April 2015Work out -15 + 4 x (-2).
- 16th April 2015Two hockey teams recorded the number of goals they scored in their last 5 matches. Team A: 2, 3, 2, 4, 4. Team B: 0, 1, 5, 6, 3. Compare the two teams by working out the mean and the range for each.
- 17th April 2015Simplify sqrt(50) - sqrt(8), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(2).
- 18th April 2015Here are the first four terms of a sequence: 7, 11, 15, 19. Find an expression for the nth term.
- 19th April 2015Find the mean of 14, 18, 22, 16 and 20.
- 20th April 2015A meal out costs 68 pounds before a 12.5% service charge is added. Calculate the total cost including the service charge.
- 21st April 2015A pupil views onion cells under a microscope after adding a drop of iodine solution to the slide. State why the iodine solution was added.
- 22nd April 2015A student dissolves ammonium nitrate in water and the temperature of the solution falls. State whether this process is exothermic or endothermic.
- 23rd April 2015A skateboarder travels at a constant speed of 4 m/s for 6 seconds. Use acceleration = change in velocity / time taken to state his acceleration during this time, and explain what an acceleration of zero means about his motion.
- 24th April 2015A hand warmer gets hot when a chemical reaction inside it takes place. State whether this reaction is exothermic or endothermic.
- 25th April 2015Name the process by which plants lose water vapour from their leaves.
- 26th April 2015Name the process used to neutralise an acid using an alkali.
- 27th April 2015In the sentence "The exhausted runner collapsed across the finish line," what word class is "exhausted"?
- 28th April 2015A question asks you to 'find and copy one word which shows that the workshop was untidy.' What kind of question is this, and how should you answer it?
- 29th April 2015A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how a writer builds atmosphere across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 30th April 2015Which of these would best speed up the pace of an action scene: a long sentence with several clauses, or a short, three-word sentence?