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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.

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February 2020

29 sheets · 145 questions · Years 7-8

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.

  1. 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).
  2. 2nd February 2020Correct the tense error: 'Last week, she swims to the buoy and back without stopping.'
  3. 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?
  4. 4th February 2020What is the name for a poem with no regular rhyme scheme or fixed rhythm?
  5. 5th February 2020A character 'counted his steps instead of looking down.' What does this suggest about his feelings?
  6. 6th February 2020Which punctuation mark is missing, and where, from this sentence: Please bring your pencil case ruler and calculator to the exam.
  7. 7th February 2020A writer describes a current as "dragging greedy fingers along the wreck." Name the technique used here.
  8. 8th February 2020Without a calculator, work out 15% of 180.
  9. 9th February 2020A box of 15 chocolates costs 4.50 pounds. Work out the cost of one chocolate.
  10. 10th February 2020Work out 56 / 7.
  11. 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.
  12. 12th February 2020Work out 3/4 of 148.
  13. 13th February 2020Share 156 pounds between two people in the ratio 7:6.
  14. 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.
  15. 15th February 2020Convert 4.2 metres into centimetres.
  16. 16th February 2020Rearrange the formula P = 2l + 2w to make w the subject.
  17. 17th February 2020Put these structures in the order air passes through them when breathing in, starting from the windpipe: alveoli, bronchi, trachea, bronchioles.
  18. 18th February 2020A piece of magnesium ribbon is added to silver nitrate solution. State whether a displacement reaction would occur, and explain why.
  19. 19th February 2020Define the terms 'solute' and 'solvent'.
  20. 20th February 2020Name the force that causes objects to fall towards the ground when dropped.
  21. 21st February 2020State the pH value of a neutral solution, such as pure water.
  22. 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.
  23. 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?
  24. 24th February 2020Explain why a poet might use short, one-word lines to describe a sudden event, such as an accident.
  25. 25th February 2020A poem compares grief to 'a stone carried in the pocket, never quite forgotten.' Name this technique.
  26. 26th February 2020Correct the tense error: Last week, the choir practises for two hours every evening.
  27. 27th February 2020Punctuate this exchange between two speakers, starting a new line for each: are you ready asked sam almost said priya
  28. 28th February 2020Which two poetic techniques appear in the line 'The streetlamp's silver stare slid over its fur'?
  29. 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?