Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
May 2018 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in May 2018, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in May 2018
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2018A car travels 210 km in 3.5 hours at a constant speed. Calculate how far it would travel in 5 hours at the same speed.
- 2nd May 2018State two functions of the human skeleton.
- 3rd May 2018Describe the test for carbon dioxide gas, and state the positive result.
- 4th May 2018A student doubles the frequency of a wave while keeping its speed the same. State what happens to the wavelength.
- 5th May 2018Two identical bulbs are each connected on their own to an identical battery. State how the brightness of a bulb connected on its own compares with an identical bulb connected in series with a second bulb to the same type of battery.
- 6th May 2018State how long it takes, approximately, for the Moon to orbit the Earth once.
- 7th May 2018A pupil measures the resultant force on an object as 0 N even though several forces are acting on it. State the term used to describe forces in this situation.
- 8th May 2018State the name given to a value read from a graph that lies between two points that were actually measured.
- 9th May 2018A writer describes the wind as "clawing at their jackets, determined to drag them off the mountain." Name the technique used here.
- 10th May 2018What do the letters PAF stand for when analysing a non-fiction text?
- 11th May 2018A newspaper report about a restored pier states: 'Engineers replaced over eleven thousand individual timbers during the two-year project.' What retrieval detail answers the question, how many timbers were replaced?
- 12th May 2018Give one example of a statistic a writer might use to persuade readers to use fewer plastic bags.
- 13th May 2018Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The wind howled, and the shutters rattled.'
- 14th May 2018Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "The train arrived late."
- 15th May 2018Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: fresh bread the baker called still warm from the oven
- 16th May 2018Two coins are flipped at the same time. List all the possible outcomes, and find the probability of getting exactly one head.
- 17th May 2018In a right-angled triangle, the angle at A is 32 degrees and the adjacent side is 9 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse, to 1 decimal place.
- 18th May 2018A cylindrical tin has radius 4 cm and height 15 cm. Work out its volume, to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 19th May 2018Simplify the ratio 32:12.
- 20th May 2018A researcher wants to find the average pocket money received by pupils at a school, so she surveys only the pupils waiting outside the head teacher's office. Give one reason this is likely to produce a biased sample.
- 21st May 2018A triangle is inscribed in a circle so that one of its sides is a diameter of the circle. Explain, using a circle theorem, why the angle at the third vertex (opposite that side) must be 90 degrees.
- 22nd May 2018Factorise fully 10x + 15.
- 23rd May 2018Work out 2^5 - 3^3.
- 24th May 2018A 750 gram box of cereal costs 2.40 pounds, and a 500 gram box of the same cereal costs 1.70 pounds. Which box offers better value for money? Show your working.
- 25th May 2018On a microscope, the eyepiece lens has a magnification of x10 and the objective lens in use has a magnification of x40. Calculate the total magnification.
- 26th May 2018In the disappearing cross experiment, a student times how long it takes for a cross under the flask to disappear from view. Explain why a shorter time indicates a faster reaction.
- 27th May 2018State whether solar power is a renewable or a non-renewable energy resource.
- 28th May 2018A book rests on a table and does not move. Name the force from the table that balances the book's weight.
- 29th May 2018A solid is heated until it turns directly into a gas without becoming a liquid first. Name this change of state.
- 30th May 2018State the approximate time it takes for light from the Sun to reach the Earth.
- 31st May 2018Which sentence uses a semicolon correctly? A) The whistle blew; and the players stopped. B) The whistle blew; the players stopped at once.