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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.

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February 2018

28 sheets · 140 questions · Years 7-8

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.

  1. 1st February 2018Name the specialised cell in humans that is adapted with a long tail and many mitochondria to swim toward an egg cell.
  2. 2nd February 2018State what happens to a catalyst during a chemical reaction.
  3. 3rd February 2018A runner covers 400 m in 50 seconds at a constant speed. Use speed = distance / time to calculate her speed.
  4. 4th February 2018Some endothermic reactions cause the temperature of their surroundings to fall. Explain, in terms of energy, why this happens.
  5. 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.
  6. 6th February 2018Name the planet in our solar system that is closest to the Sun.
  7. 7th February 2018Choose the correct homophone to complete the sentence: The team celebrated ___ victory together. (their / there / they're)
  8. 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?
  9. 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.
  10. 10th February 2018Explain one way an ending can 'connect back' to the opening of a story.
  11. 11th February 2018Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: Although the fair had closed years ago, the carousel still turned.
  12. 12th February 2018Give one example of emotive language a speaker might use to persuade pupils that public speaking is worth the risk.
  13. 13th February 2018What is a rhetorical question, and why do persuasive writers use them?
  14. 14th February 2018Round 4826 to the nearest hundred.
  15. 15th February 2018p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 4, p = 15. Work out the value of p when q = 10.
  16. 16th February 2018Without a calculator, work out 35% of 220.
  17. 17th February 2018Solve x^2 + 4x - 21 = 0.
  18. 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.
  19. 19th February 2018Work out 4.7 x 3.6, giving your answer to 1 decimal place.
  20. 20th February 2018A car travels 189 miles using 7 gallons of fuel. Work out the miles per gallon.
  21. 21st February 2018A pair of trainers costs 45 pounds. The price increases by 20%. Work out the new price.
  22. 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.
  23. 23rd February 2018Put these organs in the order food passes through them during digestion: large intestine, mouth, stomach, small intestine, oesophagus.
  24. 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.
  25. 25th February 2018State whether the main force acting when a compass needle points north is a contact force or a non-contact force.
  26. 26th February 2018Name the process by which cells release energy from glucose using oxygen.
  27. 27th February 2018Name one renewable energy resource.
  28. 28th February 2018Name the process of cell division that produces two genetically identical daughter cells for growth and repair.