Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
January 2019 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in January 2019, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in January 2019
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2019A drawer contains 4 black socks and 6 white socks only. Two socks are taken out at random, one after another, without replacement. Work out the probability that both socks are white.
- 2nd January 2019A two-digit number is 7 times the sum of its digits. The digit in the tens place is one more than the digit in the units place. Find the two-digit number.
- 3rd January 2019Here are the first four terms of a sequence: 7, 11, 15, 19. Find an expression for the nth term.
- 4th January 2019Find the mean of 14, 18, 22, 16 and 20.
- 5th January 2019Write 3/8 as a percentage.
- 6th January 2019State one way a red blood cell is adapted to carry oxygen efficiently.
- 7th January 2019A reaction between magnesium ribbon and hydrochloric acid gives off heat, and the temperature of the acid rises from 20 degrees C to 35 degrees C. State whether this reaction is exothermic or endothermic, and explain how you know.
- 8th January 2019State one reason, other than cost, why a country might want to reduce its reliance on non-renewable energy resources such as coal and oil.
- 9th January 2019State whether a frog is classified as a vertebrate or an invertebrate, and give a reason.
- 10th January 2019State whether respiration in muscle cells during hard exercise, when oxygen supply cannot keep up with demand, is aerobic or anaerobic.
- 11th January 2019Name the layer of gases surrounding the Earth that contains the oxygen needed for respiration.
- 12th January 2019This sentence contains a comma splice: The match ended in a draw, both teams were happy. Correct it in one way.
- 13th January 2019A question asks you to 'find and copy one word which shows that the workshop was untidy.' What kind of question is this, and how should you answer it?
- 14th January 2019A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how a writer builds atmosphere across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 15th January 2019Which of these would best speed up the pace of an action scene: a long sentence with several clauses, or a short, three-word sentence?
- 16th January 2019Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for 'the funfair at midnight.'
- 17th January 2019Is the claim 'debating is clearly the single best way to build confidence' a fact or an opinion?
- 18th January 2019A campaign letter opens with a short, true story about one family affected by flooding, before giving any statistics. What is this technique called, and why might a writer use it first?
- 19th January 2019Work out (-5) + (-8) - (-6).
- 20th January 2019In a right-angled triangle, the angle at A is 40 degrees and the side opposite A is 8 cm. Use trigonometry to find the length of the hypotenuse, giving your answer to 1 decimal place.
- 21st January 2019Find 3/8 of 64.
- 22nd January 2019Write 0.000078 in standard form.
- 23rd January 2019A cylindrical bucket has radius 12 cm and height 25 cm. Work out its volume, to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 24th January 2019Work out sqrt(169) + 4^2.
- 25th January 2019Increase 240 pounds by 12%.
- 26th January 2019Work out 312 divided by 8, using a written method.
- 27th January 2019The list shows the number of pets owned by 9 pupils: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 0, 1. Write down the mode.
- 28th January 2019During vigorous exercise, a sprinter's muscles cannot get enough oxygen. Name the substance that builds up in the muscles as a result, and state one effect this has.
- 29th January 2019The density of olive oil is 0.92 g/cm^3. State, with a reason, whether olive oil would float or sink in water (density 1.0 g/cm^3).
- 30th January 2019A parcel of mass 2.5 kg is lifted onto a shelf 2 m above the ground. Take g = 10 N/kg and use GPE = mass x g x height. Calculate the gain in gravitational potential energy.
- 31st January 2019Name the process by which plants lose water vapour from their leaves through tiny pores called stomata.