Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
September 2015 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in September 2015, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in September 2015
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 2015Simplify the ratio 45:60.
- 2nd September 2015A netball team played 20 matches. The table shows goals scored per match. Goals: 0, 1, 2, 3. Frequency: 4, 7, 6, 3. Calculate the mean number of goals per match.
- 3rd September 2015A slice of toast contains 12 g of carbohydrate, 4 g of protein and 3 g of fat. Each gram of carbohydrate and each gram of protein provides 4 kcal of energy, and each gram of fat provides 9 kcal. Calculate the total energy content of the toast.
- 4th September 2015Name the technique used to separate sand from a mixture of sand and water.
- 5th September 2015Ben has a mass of 12 kg. Calculate his weight on Earth. Use weight = mass x gravitational field strength, with g = 10 N/kg.
- 6th September 2015Name the process by which cells release energy from glucose using oxygen.
- 7th September 2015Name one renewable energy resource.
- 8th September 2015A wave has a wavelength of 2 m and a frequency of 5 Hz. Use wave speed = frequency x wavelength to calculate its speed.
- 9th September 2015A pupil's teacher suggests using a data logger to measure temperature every second during an experiment, instead of a pupil reading a thermometer every minute. Suggest one advantage of using a data logger in this experiment.
- 10th September 2015Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: "The cellar was DARK."
- 11th September 2015Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'Although the fog was thick, the fishermen still set out.'
- 12th September 2015In an extract, the writer moves from describing the busy platform to focusing closely on one child crying by the ticket barrier. What effect might this shift in focus create?
- 13th September 2015Find and copy one word from 'the corridor swallowed the beam of her torch' that gives the corridor a human or animal-like quality.
- 14th September 2015A poem describes a train as having a "rattling, roaring, rumbling" journey. Name the technique shown by these three words together.
- 15th September 2015An article opens with a short story about one pupil who found a favourite book by accident, before making any wider argument. What is this technique called?
- 16th September 2015A poem has six lines in each stanza with no regular rhyme pattern. What is this style called?
- 17th September 2015Calculate the area of a triangle with base 12 cm and height 9 cm.
- 18th September 2015Work out 12 x 7.
- 19th September 2015Work out 7 x 8 + 6 x 3.
- 20th September 2015Without a calculator, work out 45% of 160.
- 21st September 2015Ade and Bo share 56 sweets in the ratio 3:4. How many sweets does Bo receive?
- 22nd September 2015108 pounds is shared between Amir and Bea in the ratio 4:5.
- 23rd September 2015Write 0.4 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 24th September 2015Write 5/8 as a decimal.
- 25th September 2015Work out 7 x 9 - 4 x 5.
- 26th September 2015Complete the word equation for photosynthesis: carbon dioxide + water produces ___ + ___.
- 27th September 2015Explain why a pencil, not a pen, must be used to draw the baseline on chromatography paper.
- 28th September 2015A ray of light travels from air into a glass block. State whether the ray bends towards the normal or away from the normal as it enters the glass.
- 29th September 2015Write the word equation for photosynthesis.
- 30th September 2015Give the chemical symbol for the element sodium.