Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
January 2021 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in January 2021, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in January 2021
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2021Using the periodic table, state whether the element chlorine (Cl) is a metal or a non-metal.
- 2nd January 2021Calculate the mean of these three repeat readings of a force: 4.2 N, 4.6 N, 4.4 N.
- 3rd January 2021A circuit has a total resistance of 12 ohm and a current of 0.5 A flowing through it. Use V = I x R to calculate the voltage across the circuit.
- 4th January 2021A writer describes a bell as 'clanging its complaint into the empty square.' Name the poetic or literary technique used here.
- 5th January 2021Add the correct negative prefix to make this word mean 'not legal': legal.
- 6th January 2021Choose the correct word: We had ___ time to finish the test than we expected. (less / fewer)
- 7th January 2021What is the name for a poem written in stanzas of two lines each?
- 8th January 2021Explain why a poet might choose short, one-syllable words to describe the strike of a hammer, rather than longer, softer words.
- 9th January 2021A climber notices 'his fingers had gone from cold to strangely warm.' What might this detail suggest to an alert reader?
- 10th January 2021Choose the correct homophone to complete the sentence: The dog wagged ___ tail happily. (its / it's)
- 11th January 2021A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how a writer builds a sense of danger across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 12th January 2021The probability that a spinner lands on red is 0.35. Work out the probability that it does not land on red.
- 13th January 2021Work out 40% of 65.
- 14th January 2021A jacket costs 65 pounds. Work out the cost after a 20% discount.
- 15th January 2021p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 8, p = 9. Work out p when q = 6.
- 16th January 2021Write 0.35 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 17th January 2021Work out 5/6 of 90.
- 18th January 2021A cube with side length 4 cm is built from 64 unit cubes, each 1 cm x 1 cm x 1 cm. The outside of the large cube is painted red, then it is taken apart into the 64 unit cubes again. How many of the unit cubes have exactly two faces painted red?
- 19th January 2021A rectangle has length 9.2 cm and width 6.8 cm. Calculate its perimeter.
- 20th January 2021A pattern of dots grows so that pattern 1 has 4 dots, pattern 2 has 7 dots, and pattern 3 has 10 dots. How many dots will pattern 6 have?
- 21st January 2021Complete the word equation for aerobic respiration: glucose + oxygen produces ___ + ___.
- 22nd January 2021State one way that painting a garden gate helps to prevent it from rusting.
- 23rd January 2021Explain how a person is able to see a book resting on a table in a well-lit room, in terms of light rays.
- 24th January 2021Explain one way in which a polar bear's thick white fur helps it survive in the Arctic.
- 25th January 2021Name the organ in the human body that produces insulin.
- 26th January 2021A student reads the volume of liquid in a measuring cylinder. The bottom of the meniscus lines up exactly halfway between the 22 cm^3 and 24 cm^3 graduation marks. State the volume of liquid.
- 27th January 2021A non-fiction text about volcanoes uses the heading "How an Eruption Happens." What is the purpose of this heading?
- 28th January 2021What is the name for a poem written in three-line stanzas?
- 29th January 2021A poem has four-line stanzas with an ABAB rhyme scheme throughout. What effect might this regular structure have on the reader?
- 30th January 2021Insert a colon in the correct place: The kit list included the following items a torch, a compass and a whistle.
- 31st January 2021Correct the subject-verb agreement error: The team of swimmers were training every morning.