Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
November 2020 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in November 2020, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in November 2020
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 2020An article opens with a short story about one seabird found tangled in plastic, before giving any wider statistics. What is this technique called?
- 2nd November 2020Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: watch your step said the warden the path is icy
- 3rd November 2020Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "Although the platform was crowded, Amara found a seat by the window."
- 4th November 2020Identify the fronted adverbial in this sentence: "Slowly, the shutters were raised one by one."
- 5th November 2020Two coins are flipped at the same time. List all the possible outcomes, and find the probability of getting exactly one head.
- 6th November 2020Write 3.6 x 10^-3 as an ordinary number.
- 7th November 2020A laptop valued at 900 pounds depreciates by 12% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 8th November 2020Work out -15 + 4 x (-2).
- 9th November 2020A fair coin is flipped and a fair six-sided dice is rolled at the same time. Work out the probability of getting heads on the coin and a number greater than 4 on the dice.
- 10th November 2020Femi can complete a job alone in 2 hours, Grace can complete the same job alone in 3 hours, and Hassan can complete it alone in 6 hours. Working together at these constant rates, how long will it take them to complete the job?
- 11th November 2020Here are the first four terms of a sequence: 7, 11, 15, 19. Find an expression for the nth term.
- 12th November 2020Find the mean of 14, 18, 22, 16 and 20.
- 13th November 2020A 750 gram box of cereal costs 2.40 pounds, and a 500 gram box of the same cereal costs 1.70 pounds. Which box offers better value for money? Show your working.
- 14th November 2020State whether human eye colour is an example of inherited variation, environmental variation, or both.
- 15th November 2020State whether an exothermic reaction transfers energy to, or takes in energy from, the surroundings.
- 16th November 2020State whether solar power is a renewable or a non-renewable energy resource.
- 17th November 2020A book rests on a table and does not move. Name the force from the table that balances the book's weight.
- 18th November 2020State the unit used to measure electric current.
- 19th November 2020State the name of the force that acts to slow down a moving object due to contact between two surfaces.
- 20th November 2020Which sentence uses a semicolon correctly? A) The whistle blew; and the players stopped. B) The whistle blew; the players stopped at once.
- 21st November 2020A question asks you to 'find and copy one word which shows that the workshop was untidy.' What kind of question is this, and how should you answer it?
- 22nd November 2020A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how a writer builds atmosphere across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 23rd November 2020Which of these would best speed up the pace of an action scene: a long sentence with several clauses, or a short, three-word sentence?
- 24th November 2020Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for 'the funfair at midnight.'
- 25th November 2020Is the claim 'debating is clearly the single best way to build confidence' a fact or an opinion?
- 26th November 2020A charity advert says: 'You could change a child's life today.' Which word directly addresses the reader, and what effect does this have?
- 27th November 2020Work out (-5) + (-8) - (-6).
- 28th November 2020y is directly proportional to x. When x = 5, y = 30. Work out the value of y when x = 8.
- 29th November 2020Find 3/8 of 64.
- 30th November 2020Write 0.000078 in standard form.