Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
July 2020 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in July 2020, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in July 2020
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 2020State two functions of the human skeleton.
- 2nd July 2020Describe the test for carbon dioxide gas, and state the positive result.
- 3rd July 2020Name the circuit component whose symbol is a circle with a cross inside it.
- 4th July 2020Name the process by which digested food molecules pass from the small intestine into the blood.
- 5th July 2020An old-style filament light bulb transfers 100 J of electrical energy. Of this, 20 J is transferred usefully as light, and the rest is wasted as heat. Calculate the energy wasted as heat.
- 6th July 2020A pupil measures the resultant force on an object as 0 N even though several forces are acting on it. State the term used to describe forces in this situation.
- 7th July 2020State the name given to a value read from a graph that lies between two points that were actually measured.
- 8th July 2020A question asks you to "find and copy one word" meaning "extremely cold." Which of these fits: "freezing", "mild", "warm" or "humid"?
- 9th July 2020A factual article about volcanic islands is broken into sections titled 'How islands form', 'Life on the slopes' and 'Living with the risk'. What are these called, and what is their purpose?
- 10th July 2020You are asked to summarise a whole article in two sentences. What should you prioritise including?
- 11th July 2020Is the claim 'recycling is clearly the most important thing you can do for the planet' a fact or an opinion?
- 12th July 2020Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'Because the tide was rising, the children ran back up the beach.'
- 13th July 2020Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: mind the gap called the guard as the doors slid shut
- 14th July 2020Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "A trader called out his prices, and shoppers began to gather."
- 15th July 2020Find the mean of these test scores: 14, 18, 12, 20, 16.
- 16th July 2020p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 3, p = 20. Work out p when q = 12.
- 17th July 2020Find the midpoint of the line segment joining A(2, -3) and B(-6, 9).
- 18th July 2020A train journey of 175 km takes 2.5 hours at a constant speed. Work out the speed in km/h.
- 19th July 2020A researcher wants to find the average pocket money received by pupils at a school, so she surveys only the pupils waiting outside the head teacher's office. Give one reason this is likely to produce a biased sample.
- 20th July 2020A triangle is inscribed in a circle so that one of its sides is a diameter of the circle. Explain, using a circle theorem, why the angle at the third vertex (opposite that side) must be 90 degrees.
- 21st July 2020Simplify 6a + 4b - 2a + 5b.
- 22nd July 2020A car depreciates by 15% each year. It is worth 20,000 pounds now. Work out its value after 1 year.
- 23rd July 2020Find 35% of 160 pounds.
- 24th July 2020On a microscope, the eyepiece lens has a magnification of x10 and the objective lens in use has a magnification of x40. Calculate the total magnification.
- 25th July 2020In the disappearing cross experiment, a student times how long it takes for a cross under the flask to disappear from view. Explain why a shorter time indicates a faster reaction.
- 26th July 2020A runner covers 400 m in 50 seconds at a constant speed. Use speed = distance / time to calculate her speed.
- 27th July 2020Some endothermic reactions cause the temperature of their surroundings to fall. Explain, in terms of energy, why this happens.
- 28th July 2020A solid is heated until it turns directly into a gas without becoming a liquid first. Name this change of state.
- 29th July 2020State the approximate time it takes for light from the Sun to reach the Earth.
- 30th July 2020Choose the correct homophone to complete the sentence: The team celebrated ___ victory together. (their / there / they're)
- 31st July 2020An apprentice is described as 'chewing the inside of his cheek and avoiding his master's eye.' What does this suggest about how he feels?