Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
July 2016 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in July 2016, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in July 2016
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 2016What do the letters PAF stand for when analysing a non-fiction text?
- 2nd July 2016A newspaper report about a restored pier states: 'Engineers replaced over eleven thousand individual timbers during the two-year project.' What retrieval detail answers the question, how many timbers were replaced?
- 3rd July 2016Give one example of a statistic a writer might use to persuade readers to use fewer plastic bags.
- 4th July 2016Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The wind howled, and the shutters rattled.'
- 5th July 2016Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "The train arrived late."
- 6th July 2016Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: fresh bread the baker called still warm from the oven
- 7th July 2016A coin is flipped 200 times and lands on heads 118 times. Calculate the relative frequency of landing on heads.
- 8th July 2016In a right-angled triangle, the angle at A is 32 degrees and the adjacent side is 9 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse, to 1 decimal place.
- 9th July 2016A cylindrical tin has radius 4 cm and height 15 cm. Work out its volume, to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 10th July 2016Simplify the ratio 32:12.
- 11th July 2016A fair coin is flipped and a fair six-sided dice is rolled at the same time. Work out the probability of getting heads on the coin and a number greater than 4 on the dice.
- 12th July 2016Femi can complete a job alone in 2 hours, Grace can complete the same job alone in 3 hours, and Hassan can complete it alone in 6 hours. Working together at these constant rates, how long will it take them to complete the job?
- 13th July 2016Factorise fully 10x + 15.
- 14th July 2016Work out 2^5 - 3^3.
- 15th July 2016Write 3/8 as a percentage.
- 16th July 2016State whether human eye colour is an example of inherited variation, environmental variation, or both.
- 17th July 2016State whether an exothermic reaction transfers energy to, or takes in energy from, the surroundings.
- 18th July 2016State one reason, other than cost, why a country might want to reduce its reliance on non-renewable energy resources such as coal and oil.
- 19th July 2016State whether a frog is classified as a vertebrate or an invertebrate, and give a reason.
- 20th July 2016State the unit used to measure electric current.
- 21st July 2016State the name of the force that acts to slow down a moving object due to contact between two surfaces.
- 22nd July 2016This sentence contains a comma splice: The match ended in a draw, both teams were happy. Correct it in one way.
- 23rd July 2016A writer describes sawdust as 'settling like a light snowfall over every surface.' Name the technique used.
- 24th July 2016In an extract, a character "kept glancing at the door and twisting the strap of her bag." What does this suggest about the character's feelings?
- 25th July 2016Write one short sentence (no more than five words) suitable for a moment of sudden shock in a story.
- 26th July 2016Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: The gates creaked open.
- 27th July 2016What is the effect of directly addressing an audience as 'you' in a speech?
- 28th July 2016A campaign letter opens with a short, true story about one family affected by flooding, before giving any statistics. What is this technique called, and why might a writer use it first?
- 29th July 2016Express 60 as a product of its prime factors, then use this to find the lowest common multiple (LCM) of 60 and 24.
- 30th July 2016y is directly proportional to x. When x = 5, y = 30. Work out the value of y when x = 8.
- 31st July 2016A cafe sells 3 coffees at 2.40 pounds each and 2 teas at 1.60 pounds each. Work out the total cost, without a calculator.