Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
December 2015 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in December 2015, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in December 2015
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 2015A bag has 4 yellow and 6 purple counters. Find the probability of picking a purple counter.
- 2nd December 2015A 750 gram box of cereal costs 2.40 pounds, and a 500 gram box of the same cereal costs 1.70 pounds. Which box offers better value for money? Show your working.
- 3rd December 2015Name the specialised cell in humans that is adapted with a long tail and many mitochondria to swim toward an egg cell.
- 4th December 2015State what happens to a catalyst during a chemical reaction.
- 5th December 2015State whether solar power is a renewable or a non-renewable energy resource.
- 6th December 2015A book rests on a table and does not move. Name the force from the table that balances the book's weight.
- 7th December 2015A trolley of mass 2 kg is raised to a height of 5 m. Use GPE = mass x gravitational field strength x height (g = 10 N/kg) to calculate its gravitational potential energy.
- 8th December 2015Name the planet in our solar system that is closest to the Sun.
- 9th December 2015Which sentence uses a semicolon correctly? A) The whistle blew; and the players stopped. B) The whistle blew; the players stopped at once.
- 10th December 2015In an extract, a character 'set down his tools without a word and walked out into the rain.' What might this action suggest about his state of mind?
- 11th December 2015A writer describes a clock as "ticking its patient warning through the empty hall." Name the poetic technique used here.
- 12th December 2015Punctuate this exchange, adding inverted commas, capital letters and any other punctuation needed: are you sure about this asked Leo his sister nodded without looking up
- 13th December 2015Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: The funfair was SCARY.
- 14th December 2015A speaker says 'Ninety per cent of our debate club members say it changed how they see arguments.' Name the technique used here.
- 15th December 2015A charity advert says: 'You could change a child's life today.' Which word directly addresses the reader, and what effect does this have?
- 16th December 2015Order these integers from smallest to largest: -6, 2, -3, 0, -9
- 17th December 2015p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 4, p = 15. Work out the value of p when q = 10.
- 18th December 2015A triangle has base 10 cm and height 7 cm. Work out its area.
- 19th December 2015p is inversely proportional to q^2. When q = 2, p = 18. Work out p when q = 3.
- 20th December 2015The nth term of a sequence is 6n - 4. Work out the 12th term.
- 21st December 2015A car journey of 156 miles takes 2.4 hours. Work out the average speed, to the nearest mile per hour.
- 22nd December 2015A rectangle has a perimeter of 38 cm and a width of 6.5 cm. Work out its length.
- 23rd December 2015Find the area of a triangle with base 12 cm and height 7 cm.
- 24th December 2015A box contains 7 yellow pencils, 5 blue pencils and 3 green pencils. A pencil is picked at random. Find the probability that it is not blue.
- 25th December 2015State one structure found in a plant cell but not in an animal cell.
- 26th December 2015A sample of matter has particles that are far apart and moving quickly in random directions. State which state of matter this describes.
- 27th December 2015In a tug of war, Team X pulls with a force of 640 N and Team Y pulls with a force of 590 N in the opposite direction. Calculate the resultant force acting on the rope.
- 28th December 2015Name the type of blood vessel that carries blood away from the heart under high pressure.
- 29th December 2015State whether gold is a very reactive or a very unreactive metal, given that it is found in the Earth as the pure metal rather than in a compound.
- 30th December 2015Name the process of cell division that produces two genetically identical daughter cells for growth and repair.
- 31st December 2015Before starting a watering investigation, a pupil writes this prediction: a plant given more water each day will grow taller than one given less water. State one piece of scientific reasoning that could support this prediction.