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December 2017 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day

Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in December 2017, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.

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December 2017

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 7-8

Every sheet in December 2017

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st December 2017In an extract, a character 'chewed his lip and stared at his shoes.' What does this suggest about the character's feelings?
  2. 2nd December 2017Add a colon to this sentence in the correct place: The expedition needed three things warm clothing enough food and a reliable map.
  3. 3rd December 2017Choose the correct word: There were ___ people at the concert than last year. (less / fewer)
  4. 4th December 2017Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The branches creaked and clawed at the window'?
  5. 5th December 2017Find and copy one word from 'the anvil's patient, unmoving weight' that gives the anvil a human quality.
  6. 6th December 2017Which word class is 'desperately' in 'He desperately searched for a handhold'?
  7. 7th December 2017Correct the punctuation in this sentence, which reports direct speech: she shouted watch out and pulled her brother back from the road
  8. 8th December 2017A question asks you to "find and copy one phrase" meaning "completely dark." Which of these fits: "pitch black", "faintly lit", "clear blue" or "softly glowing"?
  9. 9th December 2017Without a calculator, work out 15% of 180.
  10. 10th December 2017Convert 2 hours 15 minutes into minutes.
  11. 11th December 2017Find 2/9 of 63.
  12. 12th December 2017Write 5.4 x 10^4 as an ordinary number.
  13. 13th December 2017A recipe needs 250 g of flour to make 8 muffins. Work out how much flour is needed to make 20 muffins at the same recipe strength.
  14. 14th December 2017Write 0.72 as a fraction in its simplest form.
  15. 15th December 2017A rectangular field measuring 60 m by 40 m is to be divided into identical square plots, as large as possible, with no land left over. Work out the side length of each square plot, and the total number of plots.
  16. 16th December 2017A cuboid has dimensions 6 cm by 4 cm by 3 cm. Calculate its volume.
  17. 17th December 2017The nth term of a sequence is 5n - 2. Find the 12th term.
  18. 18th December 2017Put these structures in the order air passes through them when breathing in, starting from the windpipe: alveoli, bronchi, trachea, bronchioles.
  19. 19th December 2017A piece of magnesium ribbon is added to silver nitrate solution. State whether a displacement reaction would occur, and explain why.
  20. 20th December 2017Name the organs whose main job is to filter waste products out of the blood and produce urine.
  21. 21st December 2017Name the continuous process by which rocks are broken down, transported, deposited, and can eventually reform into new rock types.
  22. 22nd December 2017State the pH value of a neutral solution, such as pure water.
  23. 23rd December 2017Which piece of apparatus should be used to measure the temperature of a liquid in an experiment?
  24. 24th December 2017In the same text, is the sentence "There is nothing more thrilling than floating silently above the countryside" a fact or an opinion?
  25. 25th December 2017Find and copy one word from 'the tide dragged its heavy silver chain across the sand' that gives the tide a human or animal-like quality.
  26. 26th December 2017Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The wind whispered through the willow'?
  27. 27th December 2017Add the missing apostrophe: The three teachers offices were being redecorated. (There are three teachers, each with their own office.)
  28. 28th December 2017Add a semicolon in the correct place: The bus was late the queue grew longer by the minute.
  29. 29th December 2017Explain why a poet might choose soft, hissing sounds, sibilance, to describe a fox moving at night, rather than harsh, hard sounds.
  30. 30th December 2017You are asked to summarise a paragraph in one sentence. What is the biggest risk to avoid?
  31. 31st December 2017A conversion graph shows that 5 miles is equivalent to 8 kilometres. Using this scale, convert 20 miles to kilometres.