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July 2019 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day

Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in July 2019, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.

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July 2019

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 7-8

Every sheet in July 2019

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 2019Work out 207 divided by 9, showing your written method.
  2. 2nd July 2019Work out 143 divided by 11.
  3. 3rd July 2019In a class of 30 pupils, 18 play football, 14 play tennis, and 7 play both football and tennis. How many pupils play neither football nor tennis?
  4. 4th July 2019A right-angled triangle has hypotenuse 17 cm and one leg of 8 cm. Calculate the length of the other leg.
  5. 5th July 2019Using the formula v = u + at, find v when u = 5, a = 3 and t = 4.
  6. 6th July 2019Name the enzyme that digests starch, and state the product it is broken down into.
  7. 7th July 2019Name the gas released when fossil fuels are burned that is the main cause of the enhanced greenhouse effect.
  8. 8th July 2019A pupil rubs a plastic rod with a cloth, giving the rod a negative electric charge. She then holds the rod near small pieces of paper on a table. State what she would observe, and explain why, in terms of electric charge.
  9. 9th July 2019In the food chain grass, rabbit, fox, where grass is eaten by rabbits and rabbits are eaten by foxes, name the organism that is the producer.
  10. 10th July 2019Name the force that opposes the motion of an object moving through air.
  11. 11th July 2019A cylinder of gas is labelled with a diamond-shaped symbol showing a black flame on an orange background. State what hazard this symbol represents.
  12. 12th July 2019A writer describes rising ocean temperatures as "a slow-burning threat to one of the planet's most colourful ecosystems." Explain what effect the phrase "slow-burning" has on the reader.
  13. 13th July 2019A poem compares loneliness to 'an empty chair at a crowded table.' Name this technique.
  14. 14th July 2019Explain why a poet might choose an irregular, unpredictable rhythm to describe a storm, rather than a steady, regular one.
  15. 15th July 2019Choose the correct homophone: ___ going to be late if the bus does not arrive soon. (Whose / Who's)
  16. 16th July 2019Identify the subordinate clause in this sentence: Because the fire alarm sounded, everyone left the building calmly.
  17. 17th July 2019What is the term for a poem that continues a sentence or idea from one line to the next without a pause?
  18. 18th July 2019Give one feature, other than headings, that a factual magazine article might use to help organise information for the reader.
  19. 19th July 2019Find the midpoint of the line segment joining (-4, 2) and (6, -8).
  20. 20th July 2019A cylindrical water butt has a radius of 35 cm and a height of 120 cm. Work out its volume, giving your answer in cm^3 to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
  21. 21st July 2019Find 3/8 of 64.
  22. 22nd July 2019Two numbers are in the ratio 4 : 7. Their sum is 66. Work out the difference between the two numbers.
  23. 23rd July 2019A shape is made from a rectangle measuring 12 cm by 8 cm, with a right-angled triangle of base 6 cm and height 8 cm removed from one corner. Work out the area of the remaining shape.
  24. 24th July 2019In a right-angled triangle, the hypotenuse is 13 cm and one other side is 5 cm. Work out the size of the angle opposite the 5 cm side, to 1 decimal place.
  25. 25th July 2019A triangle has sides 7 cm and 9 cm with an included angle of 50 degrees. Work out its area, to 1 decimal place.
  26. 26th July 2019Work out the mean of 8, 12, 15, 9 and 11.
  27. 27th July 2019Find 25% of 84 pounds.
  28. 28th July 2019State the name of the structure that allows oxygen and nutrients to pass from a mother's blood to her developing foetus.
  29. 29th July 2019Name the salt produced when zinc reacts with sulfuric acid.
  30. 30th July 2019State one way, other than increasing the current, to increase the strength of an electromagnet made from a coil of wire around an iron core.
  31. 31st July 2019State what happens to the current in a series circuit if an extra identical bulb is added, assuming the battery voltage stays the same.