Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
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.
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.
- 1st December 2017In an extract, a character 'chewed his lip and stared at his shoes.' What does this suggest about the character's feelings?
- 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.
- 3rd December 2017Choose the correct word: There were ___ people at the concert than last year. (less / fewer)
- 4th December 2017Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The branches creaked and clawed at the window'?
- 5th December 2017Find and copy one word from 'the anvil's patient, unmoving weight' that gives the anvil a human quality.
- 6th December 2017Which word class is 'desperately' in 'He desperately searched for a handhold'?
- 7th December 2017Correct the punctuation in this sentence, which reports direct speech: she shouted watch out and pulled her brother back from the road
- 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"?
- 9th December 2017Without a calculator, work out 15% of 180.
- 10th December 2017Convert 2 hours 15 minutes into minutes.
- 11th December 2017Find 2/9 of 63.
- 12th December 2017Write 5.4 x 10^4 as an ordinary number.
- 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.
- 14th December 2017Write 0.72 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 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.
- 16th December 2017A cuboid has dimensions 6 cm by 4 cm by 3 cm. Calculate its volume.
- 17th December 2017The nth term of a sequence is 5n - 2. Find the 12th term.
- 18th December 2017Put these structures in the order air passes through them when breathing in, starting from the windpipe: alveoli, bronchi, trachea, bronchioles.
- 19th December 2017A piece of magnesium ribbon is added to silver nitrate solution. State whether a displacement reaction would occur, and explain why.
- 20th December 2017Name the organs whose main job is to filter waste products out of the blood and produce urine.
- 21st December 2017Name the continuous process by which rocks are broken down, transported, deposited, and can eventually reform into new rock types.
- 22nd December 2017State the pH value of a neutral solution, such as pure water.
- 23rd December 2017Which piece of apparatus should be used to measure the temperature of a liquid in an experiment?
- 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?
- 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.
- 26th December 2017Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The wind whispered through the willow'?
- 27th December 2017Add the missing apostrophe: The three teachers offices were being redecorated. (There are three teachers, each with their own office.)
- 28th December 2017Add a semicolon in the correct place: The bus was late the queue grew longer by the minute.
- 29th December 2017Explain why a poet might choose soft, hissing sounds, sibilance, to describe a fox moving at night, rather than harsh, hard sounds.
- 30th December 2017You are asked to summarise a paragraph in one sentence. What is the biggest risk to avoid?
- 31st December 2017A conversion graph shows that 5 miles is equivalent to 8 kilometres. Using this scale, convert 20 miles to kilometres.