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July 2018 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day

Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in July 2018, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.

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July 2018

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 7-8

Every sheet in July 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 July 2018Find 30% of 150.
  2. 2nd July 2018Work out 13^2.
  3. 3rd July 2018Find 5/6 of 72.
  4. 4th July 2018A recipe for 4 people uses 200g of butter. How much butter is needed for 10 people?
  5. 5th July 2018A tap fills a bucket at a constant rate of 3 litres every 2 minutes. Work out how many litres it fills in 10 minutes.
  6. 6th July 2018Calculate 74 - 38.
  7. 7th July 2018Work out -7 + 15.
  8. 8th July 2018A journey of 240 km takes 4 hours at a constant speed. Work out the speed in km/h.
  9. 9th July 2018Name the green pigment, found in chloroplasts, that absorbs light energy for photosynthesis.
  10. 10th July 2018Name the group of the periodic table that contains elements which are almost completely unreactive because their outer electron shell is full.
  11. 11th July 2018An astronaut has a mass of 70 kg on Earth. State her mass on the Moon, and explain why her weight on the Moon is less than her weight on Earth.
  12. 12th July 2018Using the periodic table, state whether the element chlorine (Cl) is a metal or a non-metal.
  13. 13th July 2018Name the blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart.
  14. 14th July 2018Name the small intestine's main job in the digestive system.
  15. 15th July 2018A question is worth 4 marks and asks you to explain the effect of a writer's language in a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
  16. 16th July 2018Which punctuation mark correctly joins these two related sentences into one: 'The rain finally stopped ___ the match could go ahead after all.'
  17. 17th July 2018Add a hyphen where needed: a ten year old girl won the competition.
  18. 18th July 2018Explain why a poet might end a poem about autumn with a single short line, such as 'Then, silence.'
  19. 19th July 2018A poem has three-line stanzas with no rhyme at all. What effect might this irregular structure create?
  20. 20th July 2018A climber 'gripped the rope until his knuckles turned white, then made himself let go, one finger at a time.' What does this suggest about the difficulty of what he is doing?
  21. 21st July 2018Choose the correct homophone to complete the sentence: The dog wagged ___ tail happily. (its / it's)
  22. 22nd July 2018Which word means the same as "enormous" in a sentence describing a huge shipwreck: "colossal", "tiny", "narrow" or "shallow"?
  23. 23rd July 2018Simplify 5x + 3y - 2x + 7y.
  24. 24th July 2018Work out 9 x 8.
  25. 25th July 2018Work out (4 + 3) x (9 - 5).
  26. 26th July 2018y is directly proportional to x^2. When x = 4, y = 32. Work out y when x = 6.
  27. 27th July 2018Write the ratio 18:24 in its simplest form.
  28. 28th July 2018Work out 8.4 x 6, using a written method.
  29. 29th July 2018At a small maths club meeting, every one of the 8 members shakes hands with every other member exactly once. Work out the total number of handshakes.
  30. 30th July 2018State the order of rotational symmetry and the number of lines of symmetry of a regular pentagon.
  31. 31st July 2018A pattern of dots grows so that pattern 1 has 4 dots, pattern 2 has 7 dots, and pattern 3 has 10 dots. How many dots will pattern 6 have?