Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
November 2017 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in November 2017, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in November 2017
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 2017A box contains 7 yellow pencils, 5 blue pencils and 3 green pencils. A pencil is picked at random. Find the probability that it is not blue.
- 2nd November 2017State one structure found in a plant cell but not in an animal cell.
- 3rd November 2017A sample of matter has particles that are far apart and moving quickly in random directions. State which state of matter this describes.
- 4th November 2017In a tug of war, Team X pulls with a force of 640 N and Team Y pulls with a force of 590 N in the opposite direction. Calculate the resultant force acting on the rope.
- 5th November 2017A cyclist travels 300 m in 25 s. Calculate her average speed.
- 6th November 2017Name the gas produced when a reactive metal reacts with a dilute acid.
- 7th November 2017A wave has a wavelength of 2 m and a frequency of 5 Hz. Use wave speed = frequency x wavelength to calculate its speed.
- 8th November 2017A pupil measures the mass of a metal washer five times using a balance and gets: 14.2 g, 14.5 g, 14.1 g, 14.6 g, 14.1 g. Calculate the mean mass, giving your answer to 3 significant figures.
- 9th November 2017Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "The map was old and torn."
- 10th November 2017Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for 'the corridor at midnight.'
- 11th November 2017A writer describes a departure board as 'flickering through a list of cancellations like a nervous heartbeat.' Name the technique used.
- 12th November 2017A character 'held his breath without realising it' as he entered a dark passage. What does this suggest about his feelings?
- 13th November 2017A poem has four lines per stanza with the rhyme pattern ABAB. What is this pattern called?
- 14th November 2017Is the claim 'reading is obviously more rewarding than scrolling through a screen' a fact or an opinion?
- 15th November 2017A question asks you to explain "how the poet's feelings towards winter change across the poem." What should your answer focus on?
- 16th November 2017An L-shaped room is made from a 6 m by 4 m rectangle with a 2 m by 3 m rectangle removed from one corner. Calculate the area of the room.
- 17th November 2017Work out -4 - 7.
- 18th November 2017Find the highest common factor of 24 and 36.
- 19th November 2017Simplify 6x + 4 - 2x - 9.
- 20th November 2017A basket contains 15 lemons and 25 limes. Write the ratio of lemons to limes in its simplest form.
- 21st November 2017Calculate 56 + 29.
- 22nd November 2017Work out 20 - 3 x 4.
- 23rd November 2017A number is tripled and then 5 is added, giving 32. Form an equation and find the number.
- 24th November 2017Simplify the ratio 18:24 to its simplest form.
- 25th November 2017Complete the word equation for photosynthesis: carbon dioxide + water produces ___ + ___.
- 26th November 2017Explain why a pencil, not a pen, must be used to draw the baseline on chromatography paper.
- 27th November 2017A cliff is 170 m from a person who claps and hears the echo. Use distance = speed x time and a speed of sound of 340 m/s to calculate how long after the clap the echo is heard.
- 28th November 2017State the number of protons found in an atom of oxygen, given that oxygen's atomic number is 8.
- 29th November 2017Give the chemical symbol for the element sodium.
- 30th November 2017State the name of a reaction in which a more reactive metal displaces a less reactive metal from a compound.