Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
November 2015 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in November 2015, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in November 2015
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 2015Find the gradient of the line joining (1, 4) and (5, 16).
- 2nd November 2015A bag contains 12 red counters, 15 blue counters and 9 green counters only. A counter is picked at random. Work out the probability that it is blue, giving your answer as a decimal to 3 significant figures.
- 3rd November 2015Find 3/8 of 64.
- 4th November 2015Two joggers start together at a park gate. One returns to the gate every 18 minutes, the other every 24 minutes. After how many minutes will they next be at the gate together?
- 5th November 2015Two parallel lines are cut by a transversal. One of the angles formed is 63 degrees. State the size of the co-interior (allied) angle on the same side of the transversal, and explain why.
- 6th November 2015In a right-angled triangle, the hypotenuse is 13 cm and one other side is 5 cm. Work out the size of the angle opposite the 5 cm side, to 1 decimal place.
- 7th November 2015A triangle has sides 7 cm and 9 cm with an included angle of 50 degrees. Work out its area, to 1 decimal place.
- 8th November 2015Work out the mean of 8, 12, 15, 9 and 11.
- 9th November 2015Find 25% of 84 pounds.
- 10th November 2015Explain why muscles must work in antagonistic pairs rather than alone.
- 11th November 2015State whether a solution with pH 3 is acidic, neutral, or alkaline.
- 12th November 2015A student doubles the frequency of a wave while keeping its speed the same. State what happens to the wavelength.
- 13th November 2015Two identical bulbs are each connected on their own to an identical battery. State how the brightness of a bulb connected on its own compares with an identical bulb connected in series with a second bulb to the same type of battery.
- 14th November 2015State how long it takes, approximately, for the Moon to orbit the Earth once.
- 15th November 2015Name the force that pulls all objects with mass towards each other, keeping planets in orbit.
- 16th November 2015On a graph of temperature (y-axis) against time (x-axis), a straight line rises from (0 s, 20 degrees C) to (40 s, 60 degrees C). Calculate the gradient of this line, and state what it represents.
- 17th November 2015A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how the writer builds a sense of danger across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 18th November 2015A travel article is written for a general newspaper audience rather than for expert climbers. How might its vocabulary and level of detail differ from a specialist mountaineering magazine?
- 19th November 2015In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The submersible's hull must withstand immense pressure at such depths, where a single flaw could prove catastrophic.' What does 'catastrophic' mean here?
- 20th November 2015Name the technique used in this slogan: Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.
- 21st November 2015Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for 'the alleyway at dusk.'
- 22nd November 2015Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: "The station was BUSY."
- 23rd November 2015Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for "the fruit stall."
- 24th November 2015Two coins are flipped at the same time. List all the possible outcomes, and find the probability of getting exactly one head.
- 25th November 2015A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 5 cm and 12 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 26th November 2015The nth term of a sequence is 4n + 3. Work out the 20th term.
- 27th November 2015Work out 84 / 12.
- 28th November 2015A scatter graph plots the number of hours 10 students spent revising against their test scores. The points show that more hours of revision is generally associated with a higher test score, though not perfectly. Describe the type of correlation shown, and state one thing this correlation does not prove.
- 29th November 2015Simplify (3x^2 y^3)^2 divided by 9x^3 y^4, giving your answer as simply as possible.
- 30th November 2015p = 5, q = -2. Work out the value of 3p + q.