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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.

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February 2016

29 sheets · 145 questions · Years 7-8

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.

  1. 1st February 2016Convert 2 hours 15 minutes into minutes.
  2. 2nd February 2016Find 2/9 of 63.
  3. 3rd February 2016Write 5.4 x 10^4 as an ordinary number.
  4. 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.
  5. 5th February 2016Write 0.72 as a fraction in its simplest form.
  6. 6th February 2016A regular polygon has an exterior angle of 24 degrees. Work out how many sides the polygon has.
  7. 7th February 2016A cuboid has dimensions 6 cm by 4 cm by 3 cm. Calculate its volume.
  8. 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?
  9. 9th February 2016Name the substance that builds up in muscles during anaerobic respiration and causes fatigue.
  10. 10th February 2016Name the two substances that must both be present for iron to rust.
  11. 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.
  12. 12th February 2016Explain one way in which a polar bear's thick white fur helps it survive in the Arctic.
  13. 13th February 2016State the name of the process by which light rays bend as they pass from air into glass.
  14. 14th February 2016Which piece of apparatus should be used to measure the temperature of a liquid in an experiment?
  15. 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?
  16. 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.
  17. 17th February 2016Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The wind whispered through the willow'?
  18. 18th February 2016Add the missing apostrophe: The three teachers offices were being redecorated. (There are three teachers, each with their own office.)
  19. 19th February 2016Add a semicolon in the correct place: The bus was late the queue grew longer by the minute.
  20. 20th February 2016Explain why a poet might choose soft, hissing sounds, sibilance, to describe a fox moving at night, rather than harsh, hard sounds.
  21. 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?
  22. 22nd February 2016A straight line passes through (0, 5) and has a gradient of -2. Write down its equation.
  23. 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.
  24. 24th February 2016Convert the recurring decimal 0.3636... (where the digits 36 recur) to a fraction in its simplest form.
  25. 25th February 2016After a 12% pay rise, Priya's monthly salary is 2,240 pounds. Work out her monthly salary before the pay rise.
  26. 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.
  27. 27th February 2016Factorise x^2 - 9x + 20.
  28. 28th February 2016Expand and simplify (2x - 3)(x + 4).
  29. 29th February 2016A car's value depreciates from 18,000 pounds to 14,400 pounds in one year. Work out the percentage decrease.