Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
May 2017 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in May 2017, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in May 2017
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2017Write 0.35 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 2nd May 2017Work out 5/6 of 90.
- 3rd May 2017In a class of 30 pupils, 18 play football, 14 play tennis, and 7 play both football and tennis. How many pupils play neither football nor tennis?
- 4th May 2017A rectangle has length 9.2 cm and width 6.8 cm. Calculate its perimeter.
- 5th May 2017Find the nth term of the sequence 2, 5, 8, 11, ...
- 6th May 2017Name the enzyme that digests starch, and state the product it is broken down into.
- 7th May 2017Name the gas released when fossil fuels are burned that is the main cause of the enhanced greenhouse effect.
- 8th May 2017A results table has columns for 'Time (s)' and 'Temperature (degrees C)'. State which of these two variables would normally be plotted on the x-axis of a line graph.
- 9th May 2017State which planet in the Solar System is closest to the Sun.
- 10th May 2017Name the force that opposes the motion of an object moving through air.
- 11th May 2017A student reads the volume of liquid in a measuring cylinder. The bottom of the meniscus lines up exactly halfway between the 22 cm^3 and 24 cm^3 graduation marks. State the volume of liquid.
- 12th May 2017A non-fiction text about volcanoes uses the heading "How an Eruption Happens." What is the purpose of this heading?
- 13th May 2017What is the name for a poem written in three-line stanzas?
- 14th May 2017A poem has four-line stanzas with an ABAB rhyme scheme throughout. What effect might this regular structure have on the reader?
- 15th May 2017Insert a colon in the correct place: The kit list included the following items a torch, a compass and a whistle.
- 16th May 2017Correct the subject-verb agreement error: The team of swimmers were training every morning.
- 17th May 2017A poem compares the fox's eyes to 'two small, cold coins.' Name this technique.
- 18th May 2017A biography states that a person 'left school at fourteen to support her family, and by twenty-one had opened her own shop.' What can a reader infer about this person's character from these facts?
- 19th May 2017A line has equation y = 4x - 7. Write down its gradient and its y-intercept.
- 20th May 2017A cylindrical water butt has a radius of 35 cm and a height of 120 cm. Work out its volume, giving your answer in cm^3 to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 21st May 2017Write 3/5 as a decimal.
- 22nd May 2017Two numbers are in the ratio 4 : 7. Their sum is 66. Work out the difference between the two numbers.
- 23rd May 2017A shape is made from a rectangle measuring 12 cm by 8 cm, with a right-angled triangle of base 6 cm and height 8 cm removed from one corner. Work out the area of the remaining shape.
- 24th May 2017Expand and simplify (x + 5)(x - 3).
- 25th May 2017Simplify sqrt(75) - sqrt(12), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(3).
- 26th May 2017Work out 9.6 divided by 0.4.
- 27th May 2017Calculate 47 + 36.
- 28th May 2017State the name of the structure that allows oxygen and nutrients to pass from a mother's blood to her developing foetus.
- 29th May 2017Name the salt produced when zinc reacts with sulfuric acid.
- 30th May 2017State whether sound is a transverse wave or a longitudinal wave.
- 31st May 2017Name the organ that produces bile, which helps to digest fats.