Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
May 2020 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in May 2020, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in May 2020
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2020Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for "the map in the drawer."
- 2nd May 2020Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The fog rolled in from the sea.'
- 3rd May 2020A character 'checked her watch for the third time in a minute and sighed.' What does this suggest about how she is feeling?
- 4th May 2020Which word class is 'cautiously' in the sentence 'She cautiously ran her glove along the rusted rail'?
- 5th May 2020A question asks you to "compare how the two poets present the sea." What is the best way to structure your answer?
- 6th May 2020Give one example of emotive language a writer might use to persuade pupils that reading is enjoyable rather than a chore.
- 7th May 2020In the line "Icicles hang like daggers from the eaves", which technique is used?
- 8th May 2020An L-shaped room is made from a 6 m by 4 m rectangle with a 2 m by 3 m rectangle removed from one corner. Calculate the area of the room.
- 9th May 2020Find 30% of 150.
- 10th May 2020Work out 13^2.
- 11th May 2020Find 5/6 of 72.
- 12th May 2020A recipe for 4 people uses 200g of butter. How much butter is needed for 10 people?
- 13th May 2020A tap fills a bucket at a constant rate of 3 litres every 2 minutes. Work out how many litres it fills in 10 minutes.
- 14th May 2020Calculate 74 - 38.
- 15th May 2020Work out -7 + 15.
- 16th May 2020A journey of 240 km takes 4 hours at a constant speed. Work out the speed in km/h.
- 17th May 2020A polar bear has thick white fur. State whether this is a structural or a behavioural adaptation, and explain why.
- 18th May 2020State whether reactivity increases or decreases going down Group 1, the alkali metals.
- 19th May 2020A cliff is 170 m from a person who claps and hears the echo. Use distance = speed x time and a speed of sound of 340 m/s to calculate how long after the clap the echo is heard.
- 20th May 2020State the number of protons found in an atom of oxygen, given that oxygen's atomic number is 8.
- 21st May 2020A ball is dropped from a height and falls freely towards the ground. State the type of energy the ball gains as it speeds up.
- 22nd May 2020A pupil applies a force of 8 N to a spring and it extends by 4 cm. Use spring constant = force / extension to calculate the spring constant, in N/cm.
- 23rd May 2020A question is worth 4 marks and asks you to explain the effect of a writer's language in a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 24th May 2020Which punctuation mark correctly joins these two related sentences into one: 'The rain finally stopped ___ the match could go ahead after all.'
- 25th May 2020Add a hyphen where needed: a ten year old girl won the competition.
- 26th May 2020Explain why a poet might end a poem about autumn with a single short line, such as 'Then, silence.'
- 27th May 2020A poem has three-line stanzas with no rhyme at all. What effect might this irregular structure create?
- 28th May 2020A climber 'gripped the rope until his knuckles turned white, then made himself let go, one finger at a time.' What does this suggest about the difficulty of what he is doing?
- 29th May 2020Correct the punctuation in this sentence, which reports direct speech: she shouted watch out and pulled her brother back from the road
- 30th May 2020Which word means the same as "enormous" in a sentence describing a huge shipwreck: "colossal", "tiny", "narrow" or "shallow"?
- 31st May 2020A charity bake sale raises 200 pounds, split between three charities in the ratio 3 : 2 : 5. Work out the amount the largest share receives.