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

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

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November 2021

30 sheets · 150 questions · Years 7-8

Every sheet in November 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 November 2021Round 4826 to the nearest hundred.
  2. 2nd November 2021A right-angled triangle has two shorter sides of length 9 cm and 12 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
  3. 3rd November 2021Without a calculator, work out 35% of 220.
  4. 4th November 2021Solve x^2 + 4x - 21 = 0.
  5. 5th November 2021A motorbike valued at 5,500 pounds depreciates by 18% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
  6. 6th November 2021Work out 4.7 x 3.6, giving your answer to 1 decimal place.
  7. 7th November 2021A car travels 189 miles using 7 gallons of fuel. Work out the miles per gallon.
  8. 8th November 2021A pair of trainers costs 45 pounds. The price increases by 20%. Work out the new price.
  9. 9th November 2021A bag contains 5 red counters and 7 blue counters. Two counters are taken from the bag at random, one after the other, without replacement. Find the probability that both counters are the same colour.
  10. 10th November 2021Put these organs in the order food passes through them during digestion: large intestine, mouth, stomach, small intestine, oesophagus.
  11. 11th November 2021A pupil finds the volume of an irregular stone using a measuring cylinder. The water level rises from 35 cm^3 to 52 cm^3 when the stone is added. The stone has a mass of 42.5 g. Calculate the density of the stone, giving your answer to 2 significant figures.
  12. 12th November 2021State whether the main force acting when a compass needle points north is a contact force or a non-contact force.
  13. 13th November 2021A ray of light travels from air into a glass block and bends towards the normal at the boundary. Name this effect.
  14. 14th November 2021Name one structure found in a plant cell that is not found in an animal cell.
  15. 15th November 2021A pupil doubles the concentration of acid used in a reaction with a metal, keeping everything else the same. State what happens to the rate of the reaction.
  16. 16th November 2021A pupil's results table is missing units for one column, headed only 'Volume'. State why it is important to always include a unit in a column heading or with a numerical answer.
  17. 17th November 2021Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: dont go any further whispered grace something isnt right down here
  18. 18th November 2021Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The fog rolled in, and the harbour lights dimmed to a blur.'
  19. 19th November 2021A five-mark question asks you to explain how the writer builds a sense of frustration across the whole extract. What should your answer cover?
  20. 20th November 2021A question is worth 3 marks and asks you to explain the effect of a description. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
  21. 21st November 2021If a poem's rhythm becomes short and broken in its final stanza after being steady throughout, what might this suggest?
  22. 22nd November 2021Name the technique used in this line: New worlds. New characters. New ideas, every single time.
  23. 23rd November 2021If a poem starts with long, flowing lines and ends with very short, clipped lines, what effect might this create?
  24. 24th November 2021Calculate the perimeter of a rectangle measuring 14 cm by 8.5 cm.
  25. 25th November 2021Simplify 6a + 9 - 2a - 4.
  26. 26th November 2021Simplify 4(2x - 3) + 5.
  27. 27th November 2021A stall sells 4 sandwiches at 2.20 pounds each and 3 drinks at 1.10 pounds each. Work out the total cost, without a calculator.
  28. 28th November 2021Write the ratio 16:24 in its simplest form.
  29. 29th November 2021Work out 8 x 6.
  30. 30th November 2021Find 3/5 of 45.