Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
December 2018 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in December 2018, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in December 2018
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 2018Choose the correct homophone: You should always ___ your times tables before a test. (practice / practise)
- 2nd December 2018Choose the correct word: ___ leaving their bags by the door. (Their / There / They're)
- 3rd December 2018Find and copy one word from 'the fox paused, listening to the city's held breath' that gives the city a human quality.
- 4th December 2018In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The expedition team faced constant attrition - illness, injury and exhaustion wore down their numbers day by day.' What does 'attrition' mean here?
- 5th December 2018A train travels 90 km in 1.5 hours at a constant speed, shown as a straight line on a distance-time graph. Calculate the gradient of this line, and state what it represents.
- 6th December 2018A phone contract costs 18.50 pounds per month for 24 months, plus an upfront cost of 49 pounds. Work out the total cost of the contract.
- 7th December 2018Work out 3/4 + 1/6, giving your answer as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 8th December 2018Solve 3(2x - 1) = x + 17.
- 9th December 2018Describe the locus of points that are equidistant from two fixed points, A and B.
- 10th December 2018Solve x^2 = 7x - 12.
- 11th December 2018Solve x^2 + 3x - 18 = 0.
- 12th December 2018Find 3^3 + sqrt(64).
- 13th December 2018120 pounds is shared between Leo and Maya in the ratio 3:5. Work out how much Maya receives.
- 14th December 2018A doctor records that a foetus is 38 weeks old. Given that human gestation lasts approximately 40 weeks, state approximately how many weeks of pregnancy remain.
- 15th December 2018A student adds a piece of unknown grey solid to dilute acid and no bubbles are produced, even after several minutes. Suggest whether the solid is a metal or a non-metal, and explain your reasoning.
- 16th December 2018A wave has a frequency of 50 Hz and a wavelength of 4 m. Use wave speed = frequency x wavelength to calculate its speed.
- 17th December 2018State the pH of a neutral solution such as pure water.
- 18th December 2018State whether the Earth casting a shadow that blocks sunlight from reaching the Moon is called a solar eclipse or a lunar eclipse.
- 19th December 2018Name the gas needed by the body for aerobic respiration to take place.
- 20th December 2018A student investigates how the mass of five different metal samples affects their volume, with mass as a continuous numerical variable. State whether a bar chart or a line graph is the more appropriate way to display these results.
- 21st December 2018In an extract, a climber "kept checking the rope, tugging it twice before every step." What does this suggest about the climber?
- 22nd December 2018In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The team faced constant setbacks - equipment failure, bad weather and dwindling supplies chipped away at morale.' What does 'dwindling' mean here?
- 23rd December 2018A biography states that a scientist 'spent every evening after his factory shift teaching himself chemistry from borrowed textbooks.' What can a reader infer about this person from these facts?
- 24th December 2018An article opens with a short story about one seabird found tangled in plastic, before giving any wider statistics. What is this technique called?
- 25th December 2018Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: watch your step said the warden the path is icy
- 26th December 2018Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "Although the platform was crowded, Amara found a seat by the window."
- 27th December 2018Identify the fronted adverbial in this sentence: "Slowly, the shutters were raised one by one."
- 28th December 2018A coin is flipped 200 times and lands on heads 118 times. Calculate the relative frequency of landing on heads.
- 29th December 2018Write 3.6 x 10^-3 as an ordinary number.
- 30th December 2018A laptop valued at 900 pounds depreciates by 12% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 31st December 2018Work out -15 + 4 x (-2).