Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
September 2016 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in September 2016, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in September 2016
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 2016State the law of reflection.
- 2nd September 2016A student shouts and hears an echo 0.6 s later off a distant wall. Given the speed of sound in air is 340 m/s, calculate the total distance travelled by the sound (there and back).
- 3rd September 2016Calculate the mean of these three repeat readings of a force: 4.2 N, 4.6 N, 4.4 N.
- 4th September 2016A circuit has a total resistance of 12 ohm and a current of 0.5 A flowing through it. Use V = I x R to calculate the voltage across the circuit.
- 5th September 2016A question is worth 4 marks and asks you to explain the effect of a writer's language in a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 6th September 2016Which punctuation mark correctly joins these two related sentences into one: 'The rain finally stopped ___ the match could go ahead after all.'
- 7th September 2016Add a hyphen where needed: a ten year old girl won the competition.
- 8th September 2016Explain why a poet might end a poem about autumn with a single short line, such as 'Then, silence.'
- 9th September 2016A poem has three-line stanzas with no rhyme at all. What effect might this irregular structure create?
- 10th September 2016A climber 'gripped the rope until his knuckles turned white, then made himself let go, one finger at a time.' What does this suggest about the difficulty of what he is doing?
- 11th September 2016Add an apostrophe in the correct place: The three girls coats were left on the bus. (There is one coat per girl, and three girls in total.)
- 12th September 2016Which word means the same as "enormous" in a sentence describing a huge shipwreck: "colossal", "tiny", "narrow" or "shallow"?
- 13th September 2016The probability that a spinner lands on red is 0.35. Work out the probability that it does not land on red.
- 14th September 2016Work out 9 x 8.
- 15th September 2016Work out (4 + 3) x (9 - 5).
- 16th September 2016y is directly proportional to x^2. When x = 4, y = 32. Work out y when x = 6.
- 17th September 2016Write the ratio 18:24 in its simplest form.
- 18th September 2016Work out 8.4 x 6, using a written method.
- 19th September 2016A cube with side length 4 cm is built from 64 unit cubes, each 1 cm x 1 cm x 1 cm. The outside of the large cube is painted red, then it is taken apart into the 64 unit cubes again. How many of the unit cubes have exactly two faces painted red?
- 20th September 2016State the order of rotational symmetry and the number of lines of symmetry of a regular pentagon.
- 21st September 2016Write the next two terms of the sequence: 3, 7, 11, 15, ...
- 22nd September 2016Complete the word equation for aerobic respiration: glucose + oxygen produces ___ + ___.
- 23rd September 2016State one way that painting a garden gate helps to prevent it from rusting.
- 24th September 2016Write the number 0.048706 to 2 significant figures.
- 25th September 2016State the name of the rock type formed when magma cools and solidifies underground.
- 26th September 2016Name the organ in the human body that produces insulin.
- 27th September 2016Amara is investigating how the mass of a paper cone affects how long it takes to fall from a fixed height. State the independent variable and the dependent variable in this investigation.
- 28th September 2016In a factual text, is the sentence "Hot air balloons were first flown in France in 1783" a fact or an opinion?
- 29th September 2016A poem repeats the phrase 'and still it climbed' at the end of every stanza. What is this technique called, and what might its effect be?
- 30th September 2016Find and copy one word from the phrase 'the old clock ticked its patient rhythm' that gives the clock a human quality.