Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
February 2016 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in February 2016, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in February 2016
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 2016Convert 2 hours 15 minutes into minutes.
- 2nd February 2016Find 2/9 of 63.
- 3rd February 2016Write 5.4 x 10^4 as an ordinary number.
- 4th February 2016A recipe needs 250 g of flour to make 8 muffins. Work out how much flour is needed to make 20 muffins at the same recipe strength.
- 5th February 2016Write 0.72 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 6th February 2016A regular polygon has an exterior angle of 24 degrees. Work out how many sides the polygon has.
- 7th February 2016A cuboid has dimensions 6 cm by 4 cm by 3 cm. Calculate its volume.
- 8th February 2016A pattern of dots grows so that pattern 1 has 4 dots, pattern 2 has 7 dots, and pattern 3 has 10 dots. How many dots will pattern 6 have?
- 9th February 2016Name the substance that builds up in muscles during anaerobic respiration and causes fatigue.
- 10th February 2016Name the two substances that must both be present for iron to rust.
- 11th February 2016Explain how a person is able to see a book resting on a table in a well-lit room, in terms of light rays.
- 12th February 2016Explain one way in which a polar bear's thick white fur helps it survive in the Arctic.
- 13th February 2016State the name of the process by which light rays bend as they pass from air into glass.
- 14th February 2016Which piece of apparatus should be used to measure the temperature of a liquid in an experiment?
- 15th February 2016In the same text, is the sentence "There is nothing more thrilling than floating silently above the countryside" a fact or an opinion?
- 16th February 2016Find and copy one word from 'the tide dragged its heavy silver chain across the sand' that gives the tide a human or animal-like quality.
- 17th February 2016Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The wind whispered through the willow'?
- 18th February 2016Add the missing apostrophe: The three teachers offices were being redecorated. (There are three teachers, each with their own office.)
- 19th February 2016Add a semicolon in the correct place: The bus was late the queue grew longer by the minute.
- 20th February 2016Explain why a poet might choose soft, hissing sounds, sibilance, to describe a fox moving at night, rather than harsh, hard sounds.
- 21st February 2016A newspaper report about a school's new library states: 'The library, funded entirely by a single anonymous donation, opened its doors last Tuesday.' What retrieval detail answers the question, how was the library funded?
- 22nd February 2016A straight line passes through (0, 5) and has a gradient of -2. Write down its equation.
- 23rd February 2016A car valued at 12,000 pounds depreciates by 15% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 24th February 2016Convert the recurring decimal 0.3636... (where the digits 36 recur) to a fraction in its simplest form.
- 25th February 2016After a 12% pay rise, Priya's monthly salary is 2,240 pounds. Work out her monthly salary before the pay rise.
- 26th February 2016On a map with a scale of 1 : 25,000, two villages are 6.8 cm apart. Work out the real-life distance between the villages, in kilometres.
- 27th February 2016Factorise x^2 - 9x + 20.
- 28th February 2016Expand and simplify (2x - 3)(x + 4).
- 29th February 2016A car's value depreciates from 18,000 pounds to 14,400 pounds in one year. Work out the percentage decrease.