Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
April 2016 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in April 2016, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in April 2016
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 2016In the sentence 'The old clock in the hallway ticked with the patience of a watchman,' which word gives the clock a human quality?
- 2nd April 2016A character mutters "It's nothing" while quickly hiding a letter in his pocket. Explain what the contrast between his words and actions suggests.
- 3rd April 2016Explain one way an ending can 'connect back' to the opening of a story.
- 4th April 2016Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: Although the fair had closed years ago, the carousel still turned.
- 5th April 2016Give one example of emotive language a speaker might use to persuade pupils that public speaking is worth the risk.
- 6th April 2016A speech opens with the line: 'Imagine losing your home in a single night.' What technique is this, and why is it an effective opening?
- 7th April 2016Round 4826 to the nearest hundred.
- 8th April 2016The three angles of a triangle are in the ratio 2 : 3 : 4. Work out the size of the largest angle.
- 9th April 2016Without a calculator, work out 35% of 220.
- 10th April 2016Solve x^2 + 4x - 21 = 0.
- 11th April 2016A motorbike valued at 5,500 pounds depreciates by 18% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 12th April 2016Work out 4.7 x 3.6, giving your answer to 1 decimal place.
- 13th April 2016A car travels 189 miles using 7 gallons of fuel. Work out the miles per gallon.
- 14th April 2016A pair of trainers costs 45 pounds. The price increases by 20%. Work out the new price.
- 15th April 2016A bag contains 5 red counters and 7 blue counters. Two counters are taken from the bag at random, one after the other, without replacement. Find the probability that both counters are the same colour.
- 16th April 2016Put these organs in the order food passes through them during digestion: large intestine, mouth, stomach, small intestine, oesophagus.
- 17th April 2016A pupil finds the volume of an irregular stone using a measuring cylinder. The water level rises from 35 cm^3 to 52 cm^3 when the stone is added. The stone has a mass of 42.5 g. Calculate the density of the stone, giving your answer to 2 significant figures.
- 18th April 2016State whether the main force acting when a compass needle points north is a contact force or a non-contact force.
- 19th April 2016State whether burning magnesium ribbon in air to form magnesium oxide is a physical change or a chemical change, and give a reason.
- 20th April 2016Using the reactivity series, state whether iron would react with a solution of copper sulfate, given that iron is more reactive than copper.
- 21st April 2016State the name of the process by which oxygen moves from the air in the lungs into the blood.
- 22nd April 2016A pupil uses a stopwatch to measure how long a candle takes to burn down by 1 cm, but forgets to shield the candle from a draught in the room. State whether this makes the result less reliable or less valid, and explain your answer.
- 23rd April 2016Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: dont go any further whispered grace something isnt right down here
- 24th April 2016Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The fog rolled in, and the harbour lights dimmed to a blur.'
- 25th April 2016A five-mark question asks you to explain how the writer builds a sense of frustration across the whole extract. What should your answer cover?
- 26th April 2016A question is worth 3 marks and asks you to explain the effect of a description. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
- 27th April 2016If a poem's rhythm becomes short and broken in its final stanza after being steady throughout, what might this suggest?
- 28th April 2016Name the technique used in this line: New worlds. New characters. New ideas, every single time.
- 29th April 2016If a poem starts with long, flowing lines and ends with very short, clipped lines, what effect might this create?
- 30th April 2016A cuboid measures 7 cm by 5 cm by 4 cm. Calculate its volume.