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August 2021 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day

Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in August 2021, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.

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August 2021

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 7-8

Every sheet in August 2021

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st August 2021Is the claim 'reading is obviously more rewarding than scrolling through a screen' a fact or an opinion?
  2. 2nd August 2021A question asks you to explain "how the poet's feelings towards winter change across the poem." What should your answer focus on?
  3. 3rd August 2021A triangular prism has a cross-sectional area of 15 cm^2 and a length of 12 cm. Calculate its volume.
  4. 4th August 2021Work out -4 - 7.
  5. 5th August 2021Find the highest common factor of 24 and 36.
  6. 6th August 2021Simplify 6x + 4 - 2x - 9.
  7. 7th August 2021A basket contains 15 lemons and 25 limes. Write the ratio of lemons to limes in its simplest form.
  8. 8th August 2021Calculate 56 + 29.
  9. 9th August 2021Work out 20 - 3 x 4.
  10. 10th August 2021A number is tripled and then 5 is added, giving 32. Form an equation and find the number.
  11. 11th August 2021Simplify the ratio 18:24 to its simplest form.
  12. 12th August 2021State one way a communicable disease differs from a non-communicable disease.
  13. 13th August 2021State the name given to a horizontal row of the periodic table.
  14. 14th August 2021State the law of reflection.
  15. 15th August 2021A student shouts and hears an echo 0.6 s later off a distant wall. Given the speed of sound in air is 340 m/s, calculate the total distance travelled by the sound (there and back).
  16. 16th August 2021A pupil records the mass of a beaker of ice every 2 minutes as it melts. State which variable is the independent variable in this investigation.
  17. 17th August 2021Name the three states of matter.
  18. 18th August 2021In an extract, a character 'chewed his lip and stared at his shoes.' What does this suggest about the character's feelings?
  19. 19th August 2021Add a colon to this sentence in the correct place: The expedition needed three things warm clothing enough food and a reliable map.
  20. 20th August 2021Choose the correct word: There were ___ people at the concert than last year. (less / fewer)
  21. 21st August 2021Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The branches creaked and clawed at the window'?
  22. 22nd August 2021Find and copy one word from 'the anvil's patient, unmoving weight' that gives the anvil a human quality.
  23. 23rd August 2021Which word class is 'desperately' in 'He desperately searched for a handhold'?
  24. 24th August 2021Add an apostrophe in the correct place: The three girls coats were left on the bus. (There is one coat per girl, and three girls in total.)
  25. 25th August 2021A question asks you to "find and copy one phrase" meaning "completely dark." Which of these fits: "pitch black", "faintly lit", "clear blue" or "softly glowing"?
  26. 26th August 2021Find 2/5 of 65.
  27. 27th August 2021Convert 2 hours 15 minutes into minutes.
  28. 28th August 2021Find 2/9 of 63.
  29. 29th August 2021Write 5.4 x 10^4 as an ordinary number.
  30. 30th August 2021A recipe needs 250 g of flour to make 8 muffins. Work out how much flour is needed to make 20 muffins at the same recipe strength.
  31. 31st August 2021Write 0.72 as a fraction in its simplest form.