Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
January 2017 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in January 2017, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in January 2017
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2017A question worth 4 marks asks you to explain the effect of a writer's description. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
- 2nd January 2017This sentence contains a comma splice: The rain started early, we cancelled the picnic. Correct it in one way.
- 3rd January 2017In an extract, a diver "checked her air gauge twice in under a minute." What does this suggest about how she is feeling?
- 4th January 2017A rectangle has length 9 cm and width 6 cm. Work out its area and its perimeter.
- 5th January 2017Simplify the ratio 45:30.
- 6th January 2017Write 5:20 as a ratio in its simplest form.
- 7th January 2017A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 9 cm and 40 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 8th January 2017A jacket costs 64 pounds. It is reduced by 15% in a sale. Work out the sale price.
- 9th January 2017A jug holds 1.8 litres. Work out how many millilitres this is.
- 10th January 2017A floor is tiled with a repeating pattern of identical regular hexagonal tiles, with no gaps or overlaps. State the size of each interior angle of a regular hexagon, and explain why regular hexagons can tile a flat floor exactly.
- 11th January 2017A triangle has a base of 14 cm and a perpendicular height of 5 cm. Calculate its area.
- 12th January 2017Using the formula v = u + at, find v when u = 5, a = 3 and t = 4.
- 13th January 2017State one way the alveoli are adapted for efficient gas exchange.
- 14th January 2017Explain why attaching a block of zinc to the hull of a steel ship helps to protect the ship from rusting.
- 15th January 2017A pupil rubs a plastic rod with a cloth, giving the rod a negative electric charge. She then holds the rod near small pieces of paper on a table. State what she would observe, and explain why, in terms of electric charge.
- 16th January 2017In the food chain grass, rabbit, fox, where grass is eaten by rabbits and rabbits are eaten by foxes, name the organism that is the producer.
- 17th January 2017Name the gas that makes up approximately 78% of the Earth's atmosphere.
- 18th January 2017A student measures the length of a metal rod five times: 62.1 cm, 62.4 cm, 62.0 cm, 62.5 cm, 62.2 cm. Calculate the mean length of the rod.
- 19th January 2017Which word means the same as "ascend" in a sentence about a balloon rising into the sky: "climb", "sink", "hover" or "spin"?
- 20th January 2017Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The waves whispered along the shingle shore'?
- 21st January 2017What is the name for a poem written without a regular rhyme scheme or fixed rhythm?
- 22nd January 2017Choose the correct homophone: You should always ___ your times tables before a test. (practice / practise)
- 23rd January 2017Choose the correct word: ___ leaving their bags by the door. (Their / There / They're)
- 24th January 2017Find and copy one word from 'the fox paused, listening to the city's held breath' that gives the city a human quality.
- 25th January 2017Give one feature, other than headings, that a factual magazine article might use to help organise information for the reader.
- 26th January 2017Find the midpoint of the line segment joining (-4, 2) and (6, -8).
- 27th January 2017The nth term of a sequence is 5n - 2. Work out the 15th term.
- 28th January 2017Work out 3/4 + 1/6, giving your answer as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 29th January 20173/4 of a number is 54. Work out 5/6 of the same number.
- 30th January 2017Work out the size of each interior angle of a regular decagon (10 sides).
- 31st January 2017Solve x^2 = 7x - 12.