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September 2020 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day

Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in September 2020, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.

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September 2020

30 sheets · 150 questions · Years 7-8

Every sheet in September 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 September 2020A parallelogram has base 12 cm and perpendicular height 5 cm. Work out its area.
  2. 2nd September 20203 workers can paint a fence in 8 hours, working at the same constant rate. How long would it take 4 workers to paint the same fence?
  3. 3rd September 2020Find 10% of 95 pounds.
  4. 4th September 2020Work out 9 x 8.
  5. 5th September 2020A coat costs 80 pounds. It is reduced by 35% in a sale. Work out the sale price.
  6. 6th September 2020Work out 15% of 60.
  7. 7th September 2020Name the green pigment, found in chloroplasts, that absorbs light energy for photosynthesis.
  8. 8th September 2020Name the group of the periodic table that contains elements which are almost completely unreactive because their outer electron shell is full.
  9. 9th September 2020A ray of light travels from air into a glass block. State whether the ray bends towards the normal or away from the normal as it enters the glass.
  10. 10th September 2020Write the word equation for photosynthesis.
  11. 11th September 2020Name the blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart.
  12. 12th September 2020Name the small intestine's main job in the digestive system.
  13. 13th September 2020A question asks you to 'summarise the passage in your own words.' What must you avoid doing when answering it?
  14. 14th September 2020Is the relative clause in this sentence defining or non-defining, and should it have commas: 'The teacher who marked our essays gave detailed feedback' (assume there are several teachers)?
  15. 15th September 2020Which sentence is correct if you mean you carried your umbrella with you: 'I brought my umbrella yesterday' or 'I bought my umbrella yesterday'?
  16. 16th September 2020Find and copy one word from 'the wind stripped the last brave leaves from the oak' that suggests the leaves were trying to resist the wind.
  17. 17th September 2020A poem compares old age to 'a coat grown heavy with wear.' Name this technique.
  18. 18th September 2020A question worth 4 marks asks you to explain the effect of a writer's description. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
  19. 19th September 2020Find and correct the tense error in this sentence: Yesterday, Priya walks to school and meets her friend Tom.
  20. 20th September 2020In an extract, a diver "checked her air gauge twice in under a minute." What does this suggest about how she is feeling?
  21. 21st September 2020Simplify 5x + 3y - 2x + 7y.
  22. 22nd September 2020Simplify the ratio 45:30.
  23. 23rd September 2020Write 5:20 as a ratio in its simplest form.
  24. 24th September 2020A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 9 cm and 40 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
  25. 25th September 2020A jacket costs 64 pounds. It is reduced by 15% in a sale. Work out the sale price.
  26. 26th September 2020A jug holds 1.8 litres. Work out how many millilitres this is.
  27. 27th September 2020At a small maths club meeting, every one of the 8 members shakes hands with every other member exactly once. Work out the total number of handshakes.
  28. 28th September 2020A triangle has a base of 14 cm and a perpendicular height of 5 cm. Calculate its area.
  29. 29th September 2020The first three terms of the triangular numbers are 1, 3, 6. If the pattern continues in the same way, what is the next term after 6?
  30. 30th September 2020A food sample turns from blue to brick-red when Benedict's solution is added and the mixture is heated. State which nutrient this positive result shows is present.