Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
February 2018 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in February 2018, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in February 2018
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 2018Name the specialised cell in humans that is adapted with a long tail and many mitochondria to swim toward an egg cell.
- 2nd February 2018State what happens to a catalyst during a chemical reaction.
- 3rd February 2018A runner covers 400 m in 50 seconds at a constant speed. Use speed = distance / time to calculate her speed.
- 4th February 2018Some endothermic reactions cause the temperature of their surroundings to fall. Explain, in terms of energy, why this happens.
- 5th February 2018A trolley of mass 2 kg is raised to a height of 5 m. Use GPE = mass x gravitational field strength x height (g = 10 N/kg) to calculate its gravitational potential energy.
- 6th February 2018Name the planet in our solar system that is closest to the Sun.
- 7th February 2018Choose the correct homophone to complete the sentence: The team celebrated ___ victory together. (their / there / they're)
- 8th February 2018In the sentence 'The old clock in the hallway ticked with the patience of a watchman,' which word gives the clock a human quality?
- 9th February 2018A character mutters "It's nothing" while quickly hiding a letter in his pocket. Explain what the contrast between his words and actions suggests.
- 10th February 2018Explain one way an ending can 'connect back' to the opening of a story.
- 11th February 2018Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: Although the fair had closed years ago, the carousel still turned.
- 12th February 2018Give one example of emotive language a speaker might use to persuade pupils that public speaking is worth the risk.
- 13th February 2018What is a rhetorical question, and why do persuasive writers use them?
- 14th February 2018Round 4826 to the nearest hundred.
- 15th February 2018p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 4, p = 15. Work out the value of p when q = 10.
- 16th February 2018Without a calculator, work out 35% of 220.
- 17th February 2018Solve x^2 + 4x - 21 = 0.
- 18th February 2018A motorbike valued at 5,500 pounds depreciates by 18% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 19th February 2018Work out 4.7 x 3.6, giving your answer to 1 decimal place.
- 20th February 2018A car travels 189 miles using 7 gallons of fuel. Work out the miles per gallon.
- 21st February 2018A pair of trainers costs 45 pounds. The price increases by 20%. Work out the new price.
- 22nd February 2018A bag contains 5 red counters and 7 blue counters. Two counters are taken from the bag at random, one after the other, without replacement. Find the probability that both counters are the same colour.
- 23rd February 2018Put these organs in the order food passes through them during digestion: large intestine, mouth, stomach, small intestine, oesophagus.
- 24th February 2018A pupil finds the volume of an irregular stone using a measuring cylinder. The water level rises from 35 cm^3 to 52 cm^3 when the stone is added. The stone has a mass of 42.5 g. Calculate the density of the stone, giving your answer to 2 significant figures.
- 25th February 2018State whether the main force acting when a compass needle points north is a contact force or a non-contact force.
- 26th February 2018Name the process by which cells release energy from glucose using oxygen.
- 27th February 2018Name one renewable energy resource.
- 28th February 2018Name the process of cell division that produces two genetically identical daughter cells for growth and repair.