Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
May 2021 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in May 2021, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in May 2021
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2021Which two poetic techniques appear in the line 'The fire hissed and spat its sparks'?
- 2nd May 2021Find and copy one word from 'the mist swallowed the path ahead of him' that gives the mist a human or animal-like quality.
- 3rd May 2021Which sentence uses a semicolon correctly? A) I like tennis; and swimming. B) I like tennis; my sister prefers swimming.
- 4th May 2021A diver signals "all clear" with a steady hand, but his eyes keep darting towards the wreck's dark entrance. Explain what the contrast between his signal and his eyes suggests.
- 5th May 2021A rectangle has length 9 cm and width 6 cm. Work out its area and its perimeter.
- 6th May 2021Find 1/3 of 96.
- 7th May 2021Work out -12 + 4 x 3.
- 8th May 2021Solve x^2 - 2x - 24 = 0.
- 9th May 2021Work out 207 divided by 9, showing your written method.
- 10th May 2021Work out 143 divided by 11.
- 11th May 2021A floor is tiled with a repeating pattern of identical regular hexagonal tiles, with no gaps or overlaps. State the size of each interior angle of a regular hexagon, and explain why regular hexagons can tile a flat floor exactly.
- 12th May 2021A right-angled triangle has hypotenuse 17 cm and one leg of 8 cm. Calculate the length of the other leg.
- 13th May 2021Write the first four terms of the sequence with nth term 2n^2.
- 14th May 2021State one way the alveoli are adapted for efficient gas exchange.
- 15th May 2021Explain why attaching a block of zinc to the hull of a steel ship helps to protect the ship from rusting.
- 16th May 2021A pupil measures a length as 250 mm. State this length in metres.
- 17th May 2021State how many natural moons orbit the Earth.
- 18th May 2021Name the gas that makes up approximately 78% of the Earth's atmosphere.
- 19th May 2021A cylinder of gas is labelled with a diamond-shaped symbol showing a black flame on an orange background. State what hazard this symbol represents.
- 20th May 2021A writer describes rising ocean temperatures as "a slow-burning threat to one of the planet's most colourful ecosystems." Explain what effect the phrase "slow-burning" has on the reader.
- 21st May 2021A poem compares loneliness to 'an empty chair at a crowded table.' Name this technique.
- 22nd May 2021Explain why a poet might choose an irregular, unpredictable rhythm to describe a storm, rather than a steady, regular one.
- 23rd May 2021Choose the correct homophone: ___ going to be late if the bus does not arrive soon. (Whose / Who's)
- 24th May 2021Identify the subordinate clause in this sentence: Because the fire alarm sounded, everyone left the building calmly.
- 25th May 2021What is the term for a poem that continues a sentence or idea from one line to the next without a pause?
- 26th May 2021In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The expedition team faced constant attrition - illness, injury and exhaustion wore down their numbers day by day.' What does 'attrition' mean here?
- 27th May 2021A train travels 90 km in 1.5 hours at a constant speed, shown as a straight line on a distance-time graph. Calculate the gradient of this line, and state what it represents.
- 28th May 2021The nth term of a sequence is 5n - 2. Work out the 15th term.
- 29th May 2021Find 3/8 of 64.
- 30th May 20213/4 of a number is 54. Work out 5/6 of the same number.
- 31st May 2021Work out the size of each interior angle of a regular decagon (10 sides).