Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
August 2015 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in August 2015, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in August 2015
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2015Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "The doors opened, and passengers spilled onto the platform."
- 2nd August 2015Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: "The market was NOISY."
- 3rd August 2015Find the mean of these test scores: 14, 18, 12, 20, 16.
- 4th August 2015y is directly proportional to x. When x = 6, y = 15. Work out y when x = 10.
- 5th August 2015A bag contains 8 red, 9 blue and 7 green counters only. A counter is picked at random. Work out the probability it is red, giving your answer as a decimal to 3 significant figures.
- 6th August 2015Find 3/5 of 120.
- 7th August 2015A spinner can land on red, blue, green or yellow only. P(red) = 0.3, P(blue) = 0.25, P(green) = 0.2. Work out P(yellow).
- 8th August 2015The product of two consecutive positive integers is 132. Find the two integers.
- 9th August 2015Solve 5x - 4 = 21.
- 10th August 2015A train travels 245 km in 3.5 hours. Work out its average speed.
- 11th August 2015Find 35% of 160 pounds.
- 12th August 2015A cell has a real width of 0.02 mm. In a drawing, the same cell is shown 4 mm wide. Calculate the magnification of the drawing.
- 13th August 2015Explain, using collision theory, why crushing a solid into a powder increases the rate of reaction.
- 14th August 2015A runner covers 400 m in 50 seconds at a constant speed. Use speed = distance / time to calculate her speed.
- 15th August 2015Some endothermic reactions cause the temperature of their surroundings to fall. Explain, in terms of energy, why this happens.
- 16th August 2015Name the group in the periodic table that contains helium, neon and argon.
- 17th August 2015A pupil measures a mass of 3.5 kg on a set of scales. Convert this mass to grams.
- 18th August 2015Choose the correct homophone to complete the sentence: The team celebrated ___ victory together. (their / there / they're)
- 19th August 2015A 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?
- 20th August 2015A question asks you to "find and copy one word" meaning "silent." Which of these fits: "hushed", "loud", "busy" or "bright"?
- 21st August 2015Identify the four stages of a well-structured short narrative.
- 22nd August 2015Punctuate 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
- 23rd August 2015A speaker opens with a short, true story about one shy pupil who became the club's best speaker. What is this technique called?
- 24th August 2015What is a rhetorical question, and why do persuasive writers use them?
- 25th August 2015List all the factors of 30, and state the highest common factor (HCF) of 30 and 45.
- 26th August 2015Write 0.00042 in standard form.
- 27th August 2015Simplify 7x - 3y + 2x + 8y.
- 28th August 2015A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 7 cm and 24 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 29th August 2015A 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.
- 30th August 2015Work out 15% of 340 pounds.
- 31st August 2015Work out 8.3 x 5.2, giving your answer to 1 decimal place.