Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
September 2017 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in September 2017, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in September 2017
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 2017A cylinder of gas is labelled with a diamond-shaped symbol showing a black flame on an orange background. State what hazard this symbol represents.
- 2nd September 2017A writer describes rising ocean temperatures as "a slow-burning threat to one of the planet's most colourful ecosystems." Explain what effect the phrase "slow-burning" has on the reader.
- 3rd September 2017A poem compares loneliness to 'an empty chair at a crowded table.' Name this technique.
- 4th September 2017Explain why a poet might choose an irregular, unpredictable rhythm to describe a storm, rather than a steady, regular one.
- 5th September 2017Choose the correct homophone: ___ going to be late if the bus does not arrive soon. (Whose / Who's)
- 6th September 2017Identify the subordinate clause in this sentence: Because the fire alarm sounded, everyone left the building calmly.
- 7th September 2017What is the term for a poem that continues a sentence or idea from one line to the next without a pause?
- 8th September 2017A travel article is written for a general newspaper audience rather than for expert climbers. How might its vocabulary and level of detail differ from a specialist mountaineering magazine?
- 9th September 2017On a distance-time graph, a cyclist's journey is shown as a horizontal line for 15 minutes. What does this tell you about the cyclist during this time?
- 10th September 2017Find the midpoint of the line segment joining A(-3, 5) and B(7, -1).
- 11th September 2017Find 3/8 of 64.
- 12th September 2017A shop increases a price by 25%, then later reduces the new price by 20%. Work out the overall percentage change from the original price.
- 13th September 2017An open-top fish tank, with no lid, is a cuboid with length 50 cm, width 30 cm and height 25 cm. Work out the total area of glass needed to make the tank.
- 14th September 2017In a right-angled triangle, the hypotenuse is 13 cm and one other side is 5 cm. Work out the size of the angle opposite the 5 cm side, to 1 decimal place.
- 15th September 2017A triangle has sides 7 cm and 9 cm with an included angle of 50 degrees. Work out its area, to 1 decimal place.
- 16th September 2017Work out the mean of 8, 12, 15, 9 and 11.
- 17th September 2017Find 25% of 84 pounds.
- 18th September 2017Name the organelle in a plant cell that contains chlorophyll and is the site of photosynthesis.
- 19th September 2017State the colour universal indicator turns in a strong alkali.
- 20th September 2017A torch bulb has a resistance of 15 ohms and a current of 0.2 A flows through it. Use V = I x R to calculate the voltage across the bulb.
- 21st September 2017Name the salt formed when hydrochloric acid reacts with sodium hydroxide.
- 22nd September 2017A pupil wants to measure the current flowing through a lamp in a circuit. Name the piece of apparatus she needs, and state whether it should be connected in series or in parallel with the lamp.
- 23rd September 2017State the word equation for aerobic respiration.
- 24th September 2017State the name given to a value read from a graph beyond the range of the data that was actually measured.
- 25th September 2017A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how the writer builds a sense of danger across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 26th September 2017A travel article is written for a general newspaper audience rather than for expert climbers. How might its vocabulary and level of detail differ from a specialist mountaineering magazine?
- 27th September 2017In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The submersible's hull must withstand immense pressure at such depths, where a single flaw could prove catastrophic.' What does 'catastrophic' mean here?
- 28th September 2017Name the technique used in this slogan: Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.
- 29th September 2017Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for 'the alleyway at dusk.'
- 30th September 2017Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: "The station was BUSY."