Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
July 2017 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in July 2017, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in July 2017
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 2017A speaker opens with a short, true story about one shy pupil who became the club's best speaker. What is this technique called?
- 2nd July 2017Name the persuasive technique used in this slogan: 'Save money. Save time. Save the planet.'
- 3rd July 2017List all the factors of 30, and state the highest common factor (HCF) of 30 and 45.
- 4th July 2017A right-angled triangle has two shorter sides of length 9 cm and 12 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 5th July 2017Simplify 7x - 3y + 2x + 8y.
- 6th July 2017A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 7 cm and 24 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 7th July 2017A bag contains 9 red, 8 blue and 7 green counters only. A counter is picked at random. Work out the probability it is green, giving your answer as a decimal to 3 significant figures.
- 8th July 2017Work out 15% of 340 pounds.
- 9th July 2017Work out 8.3 x 5.2, giving your answer to 1 decimal place.
- 10th July 2017Simplify the ratio 45:60.
- 11th July 2017A netball team played 20 matches. The table shows goals scored per match. Goals: 0, 1, 2, 3. Frequency: 4, 7, 6, 3. Calculate the mean number of goals per match.
- 12th July 2017A slice of toast contains 12 g of carbohydrate, 4 g of protein and 3 g of fat. Each gram of carbohydrate and each gram of protein provides 4 kcal of energy, and each gram of fat provides 9 kcal. Calculate the total energy content of the toast.
- 13th July 2017Name the technique used to separate sand from a mixture of sand and water.
- 14th July 2017Ben has a mass of 12 kg. Calculate his weight on Earth. Use weight = mass x gravitational field strength, with g = 10 N/kg.
- 15th July 2017State the name given to a substance that speeds up a chemical reaction without being permanently used up itself.
- 16th July 2017State one advantage of using solar power to generate electricity, compared with burning fossil fuels.
- 17th July 2017A pupil doubles the concentration of acid used in a reaction with a metal, keeping everything else the same. State what happens to the rate of the reaction.
- 18th July 2017A pupil wants to find out whether increasing the concentration of a salt solution affects the boiling point of water. Suggest one variable, other than salt concentration, that should be kept the same for this to be a fair test.
- 19th July 2017Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: "The cellar was DARK."
- 20th July 2017Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'Although the fog was thick, the fishermen still set out.'
- 21st July 2017In an extract, the writer moves from describing the busy platform to focusing closely on one child crying by the ticket barrier. What effect might this shift in focus create?
- 22nd July 2017Find and copy one word from 'the corridor swallowed the beam of her torch' that gives the corridor a human or animal-like quality.
- 23rd July 2017A poem describes a train as having a "rattling, roaring, rumbling" journey. Name the technique shown by these three words together.
- 24th July 2017An article opens with a short story about one pupil who found a favourite book by accident, before making any wider argument. What is this technique called?
- 25th July 2017A poem has six lines in each stanza with no regular rhyme pattern. What is this style called?
- 26th July 2017Calculate the area of a circle with a diameter of 20 cm. Use pi = 3.14.
- 27th July 2017Work out 12 x 7.
- 28th July 2017Work out 7 x 8 + 6 x 3.
- 29th July 2017Without a calculator, work out 45% of 160.
- 30th July 2017Ade and Bo share 56 sweets in the ratio 3:4. How many sweets does Bo receive?
- 31st July 2017108 pounds is shared between Amir and Bea in the ratio 4:5.