Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
November 2018 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in November 2018, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in November 2018
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 2018State whether the Earth's day (one full rotation on its axis) or the Earth's year (one full orbit of the Sun) takes longer.
- 2nd November 2018A sound wave has a high frequency. State whether this means it has a high pitch or a low pitch.
- 3rd November 2018Calculate the mean of these three repeat readings of a force: 4.2 N, 4.6 N, 4.4 N.
- 4th November 2018A circuit has a total resistance of 12 ohm and a current of 0.5 A flowing through it. Use V = I x R to calculate the voltage across the circuit.
- 5th November 2018A question asks you to 'summarise the passage in your own words.' What must you avoid doing when answering it?
- 6th November 2018Is the relative clause in this sentence defining or non-defining, and should it have commas: 'The teacher who marked our essays gave detailed feedback' (assume there are several teachers)?
- 7th November 2018Which sentence is correct if you mean you carried your umbrella with you: 'I brought my umbrella yesterday' or 'I bought my umbrella yesterday'?
- 8th November 2018Find and copy one word from 'the wind stripped the last brave leaves from the oak' that suggests the leaves were trying to resist the wind.
- 9th November 2018A poem compares old age to 'a coat grown heavy with wear.' Name this technique.
- 10th November 2018A question worth 4 marks asks you to explain the effect of a writer's description. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
- 11th November 2018Which sentence uses a semicolon correctly? A) I like tennis; and swimming. B) I like tennis; my sister prefers swimming.
- 12th November 2018In an extract, a diver "checked her air gauge twice in under a minute." What does this suggest about how she is feeling?
- 13th November 2018The probability that a spinner lands on red is 0.35. Work out the probability that it does not land on red.
- 14th November 2018Simplify the ratio 45:30.
- 15th November 2018Write 5:20 as a ratio in its simplest form.
- 16th November 2018A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 9 cm and 40 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 17th November 2018A jacket costs 64 pounds. It is reduced by 15% in a sale. Work out the sale price.
- 18th November 2018A jug holds 1.8 litres. Work out how many millilitres this is.
- 19th November 2018A cube with side length 4 cm is built from 64 unit cubes, each 1 cm x 1 cm x 1 cm. The outside of the large cube is painted red, then it is taken apart into the 64 unit cubes again. How many of the unit cubes have exactly two faces painted red?
- 20th November 2018A triangle has a base of 14 cm and a perpendicular height of 5 cm. Calculate its area.
- 21st November 2018Write the first four terms of the sequence with nth term 2n^2.
- 22nd November 2018Complete the word equation for aerobic respiration: glucose + oxygen produces ___ + ___.
- 23rd November 2018State one way that painting a garden gate helps to prevent it from rusting.
- 24th November 2018A pupil measures a length as 250 mm. State this length in metres.
- 25th November 2018State how many natural moons orbit the Earth.
- 26th November 2018Name the organ in the human body that produces insulin.
- 27th November 2018A student measures the length of a metal rod five times: 62.1 cm, 62.4 cm, 62.0 cm, 62.5 cm, 62.2 cm. Calculate the mean length of the rod.
- 28th November 2018Which word means the same as "ascend" in a sentence about a balloon rising into the sky: "climb", "sink", "hover" or "spin"?
- 29th November 2018Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The waves whispered along the shingle shore'?
- 30th November 2018What is the name for a poem written without a regular rhyme scheme or fixed rhythm?