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

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

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September 2021

30 sheets · 150 questions · Years 7-8

Every sheet in September 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 September 2021In a class of 30 pupils, 18 play football, 14 play tennis, and 7 play both football and tennis. How many pupils play neither football nor tennis?
  2. 2nd September 2021A cuboid has dimensions 6 cm by 4 cm by 3 cm. Calculate its volume.
  3. 3rd September 2021Write the next two terms of the sequence: 3, 7, 11, 15, ...
  4. 4th September 2021Name the enzyme that digests starch, and state the product it is broken down into.
  5. 5th September 2021Name the gas released when fossil fuels are burned that is the main cause of the enhanced greenhouse effect.
  6. 6th September 2021Write the number 0.048706 to 2 significant figures.
  7. 7th September 2021State the name of the rock type formed when magma cools and solidifies underground.
  8. 8th September 2021Name the force that opposes the motion of an object moving through air.
  9. 9th September 2021Which piece of apparatus should be used to measure the temperature of a liquid in an experiment?
  10. 10th September 2021In the same text, is the sentence "There is nothing more thrilling than floating silently above the countryside" a fact or an opinion?
  11. 11th September 2021Find and copy one word from 'the tide dragged its heavy silver chain across the sand' that gives the tide a human or animal-like quality.
  12. 12th September 2021Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The wind whispered through the willow'?
  13. 13th September 2021Add the missing apostrophe: The three teachers offices were being redecorated. (There are three teachers, each with their own office.)
  14. 14th September 2021Add a semicolon in the correct place: The bus was late the queue grew longer by the minute.
  15. 15th September 2021Explain why a poet might choose soft, hissing sounds, sibilance, to describe a fox moving at night, rather than harsh, hard sounds.
  16. 16th September 2021A magazine article about volcanoes is broken into sections titled 'How volcanoes form', 'Famous eruptions' and 'Living near a volcano'. What are these called, and what is their purpose?
  17. 17th September 2021Write down the coordinates of the point 3 units to the left of the origin and 5 units up.
  18. 18th September 2021A cylindrical water butt has a radius of 35 cm and a height of 120 cm. Work out its volume, giving your answer in cm^3 to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
  19. 19th September 2021Convert the recurring decimal 0.3636... (where the digits 36 recur) to a fraction in its simplest form.
  20. 20th September 2021Two numbers are in the ratio 4 : 7. Their sum is 66. Work out the difference between the two numbers.
  21. 21st September 2021A shape is made from a rectangle measuring 12 cm by 8 cm, with a right-angled triangle of base 6 cm and height 8 cm removed from one corner. Work out the area of the remaining shape.
  22. 22nd September 2021Factorise x^2 - 9x + 20.
  23. 23rd September 2021Expand and simplify (2x - 3)(x + 4).
  24. 24th September 2021A car's value depreciates from 18,000 pounds to 14,400 pounds in one year. Work out the percentage decrease.
  25. 25th September 2021Work out 9 x 7.
  26. 26th September 2021State the name of the structure that allows oxygen and nutrients to pass from a mother's blood to her developing foetus.
  27. 27th September 2021Name the salt produced when zinc reacts with sulfuric acid.
  28. 28th September 2021State whether the north pole of one bar magnet placed near the north pole of a second bar magnet will attract or repel.
  29. 29th September 2021A solution has pH 10. State whether it is acidic, neutral or alkaline.
  30. 30th September 2021A diver swims from the surface down to a depth of 10 m in a swimming pool. State how the water pressure on her body changes as she swims deeper, and give a reason.