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December 2021 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in December 2021, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in December 2021
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 2021Work out 15 x 14, using a written method.
- 2nd December 2021Find 3/4 of 88.
- 3rd December 2021In the food chain 'grass, rabbit, fox', name the primary consumer.
- 4th December 2021State one physical property that distinguishes a typical non-metal from a typical metal.
- 5th December 2021Put these bodies in order of their distance from the Sun, starting with the closest: Mars, Mercury, Earth, Venus.
- 6th December 2021State whether elements in the same group of the periodic table have similar or very different chemical properties.
- 7th December 2021State one function of the human skeleton, other than support.
- 8th December 2021Name the enzyme found in saliva that begins the digestion of starch in the mouth.
- 9th December 2021A character says 'I'm fine' through gritted teeth, then slams the door. Explain what the contrast between the character's words and actions suggests.
- 10th December 2021Correct the spelling error caused by a missing doubled consonant: 'I am hopping to finish my homework before dinner' (meaning expecting, not jumping).
- 11th December 2021Correct the tense error: 'Last week, she swims to the buoy and back without stopping.'
- 12th December 2021A poem has irregular line lengths and no rhyme scheme, but a steady, insistent rhythm created by repeating the same three-syllable phrase. What technique creates this effect?
- 13th December 2021What is the name for a poem with no regular rhyme scheme or fixed rhythm?
- 14th December 2021A character 'counted his steps instead of looking down.' What does this suggest about his feelings?
- 15th December 2021This sentence contains a comma splice: The rain started early, we cancelled the picnic. Correct it in one way.
- 16th December 2021A writer describes a current as "dragging greedy fingers along the wreck." Name the technique used here.
- 17th December 2021A cinema charges 6.50 pounds for an adult ticket and 4.20 pounds for a child ticket. A family buys tickets for 2 adults and 3 children. Work out the total cost, without using a calculator.
- 18th December 2021A box of 15 chocolates costs 4.50 pounds. Work out the cost of one chocolate.
- 19th December 2021Work out 56 / 7.
- 20th December 2021In a right-angled triangle, the angle at A is 27 degrees and the opposite side is 6 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse, to 1 decimal place.
- 21st December 2021Work out 3/4 of 148.
- 22nd December 2021Share 156 pounds between two people in the ratio 7:6.
- 23rd December 2021A dice has its six faces numbered 1 to 6, arranged so opposite faces always add up to 7. The face showing 2 is on top, and the face showing 3 is facing you. Work out which number is on the bottom face, and which number is on the face directly opposite the one facing you.
- 24th December 2021Convert 4.2 metres into centimetres.
- 25th December 2021Using the formula v = u + at, find v when u = 5, a = 3 and t = 4.
- 26th December 2021State one way bile helps with the digestion of fats.
- 27th December 2021In the reactivity series, state which is more reactive: zinc or copper.
- 28th December 2021A pupil rubs a plastic rod with a cloth, giving the rod a negative electric charge. She then holds the rod near small pieces of paper on a table. State what she would observe, and explain why, in terms of electric charge.
- 29th December 2021In the food chain grass, rabbit, fox, where grass is eaten by rabbits and rabbits are eaten by foxes, name the organism that is the producer.
- 30th December 2021Write the word equation for photosynthesis.
- 31st December 2021A thermometer has graduations every 1 degree C. A student takes a single temperature reading of 40 degrees C. Calculate the percentage uncertainty in this reading.