Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
February 2020 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in February 2020, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in February 2020
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 2020Correct the spelling error caused by a missing doubled consonant: 'I am hopping to finish my homework before dinner' (meaning expecting, not jumping).
- 2nd February 2020Correct the tense error: 'Last week, she swims to the buoy and back without stopping.'
- 3rd February 2020A poem has irregular line lengths and no rhyme scheme, but a steady, insistent rhythm created by repeating the same three-syllable phrase. What technique creates this effect?
- 4th February 2020What is the name for a poem with no regular rhyme scheme or fixed rhythm?
- 5th February 2020A character 'counted his steps instead of looking down.' What does this suggest about his feelings?
- 6th February 2020Which punctuation mark is missing, and where, from this sentence: Please bring your pencil case ruler and calculator to the exam.
- 7th February 2020A writer describes a current as "dragging greedy fingers along the wreck." Name the technique used here.
- 8th February 2020Without a calculator, work out 15% of 180.
- 9th February 2020A box of 15 chocolates costs 4.50 pounds. Work out the cost of one chocolate.
- 10th February 2020Work out 56 / 7.
- 11th February 2020In a right-angled triangle, the angle at A is 27 degrees and the opposite side is 6 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse, to 1 decimal place.
- 12th February 2020Work out 3/4 of 148.
- 13th February 2020Share 156 pounds between two people in the ratio 7:6.
- 14th February 2020A rectangular field measuring 60 m by 40 m is to be divided into identical square plots, as large as possible, with no land left over. Work out the side length of each square plot, and the total number of plots.
- 15th February 2020Convert 4.2 metres into centimetres.
- 16th February 2020Rearrange the formula P = 2l + 2w to make w the subject.
- 17th February 2020Put these structures in the order air passes through them when breathing in, starting from the windpipe: alveoli, bronchi, trachea, bronchioles.
- 18th February 2020A piece of magnesium ribbon is added to silver nitrate solution. State whether a displacement reaction would occur, and explain why.
- 19th February 2020Define the terms 'solute' and 'solvent'.
- 20th February 2020Name the force that causes objects to fall towards the ground when dropped.
- 21st February 2020State the pH value of a neutral solution, such as pure water.
- 22nd February 2020A thermometer has graduations every 1 degree C. A student takes a single temperature reading of 40 degrees C. Calculate the percentage uncertainty in this reading.
- 23rd February 2020A text about coral reefs moves from explaining what coral is, to how reefs form, to why they are under threat. What is this structure called?
- 24th February 2020Explain why a poet might use short, one-word lines to describe a sudden event, such as an accident.
- 25th February 2020A poem compares grief to 'a stone carried in the pocket, never quite forgotten.' Name this technique.
- 26th February 2020Correct the tense error: Last week, the choir practises for two hours every evening.
- 27th February 2020Punctuate this exchange between two speakers, starting a new line for each: are you ready asked sam almost said priya
- 28th February 2020Which two poetic techniques appear in the line 'The streetlamp's silver stare slid over its fur'?
- 29th February 2020A travel article is written for a general newspaper audience rather than for expert climbers. How might its vocabulary and level of detail differ from a specialist mountaineering magazine?