Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
January 2022 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in January 2022, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in January 2022
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2022A text about coral reefs moves from explaining what coral is, to how reefs form, to why they are under threat. What is this structure called?
- 2nd January 2022Explain why a poet might use short, one-word lines to describe a sudden event, such as an accident.
- 3rd January 2022A poem compares grief to 'a stone carried in the pocket, never quite forgotten.' Name this technique.
- 4th January 2022Correct the tense error: Last week, the choir practises for two hours every evening.
- 5th January 2022Punctuate this exchange between two speakers, starting a new line for each: are you ready asked sam almost said priya
- 6th January 2022Which two poetic techniques appear in the line 'The streetlamp's silver stare slid over its fur'?
- 7th January 2022Give one feature, other than headings, that a factual magazine article might use to help organise information for the reader.
- 8th January 2022Find the midpoint of the line segment joining (-4, 2) and (6, -8).
- 9th January 2022Find the midpoint of the line segment joining A(-3, 5) and B(7, -1).
- 10th January 2022Find 35% of 180.
- 11th January 2022A shop increases a price by 25%, then later reduces the new price by 20%. Work out the overall percentage change from the original price.
- 12th January 2022An open-top fish tank, with no lid, is a cuboid with length 50 cm, width 30 cm and height 25 cm. Work out the total area of glass needed to make the tank.
- 13th January 2022Simplify sqrt(45) + sqrt(20), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(5).
- 14th January 2022A chord subtends an angle of 76 degrees at the centre of a circle. Work out the angle it subtends at the circumference, on the major arc.
- 15th January 2022A journey of 84 km takes 1 hour 45 minutes. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 16th January 2022A car travels 210 km in 3.5 hours at a constant speed. Calculate how far it would travel in 5 hours at the same speed.
- 17th January 2022Name the organelle in a plant cell that contains chlorophyll and is the site of photosynthesis.
- 18th January 2022State the colour universal indicator turns in a strong alkali.
- 19th January 2022State one way, other than increasing the current, to increase the strength of an electromagnet made from a coil of wire around an iron core.
- 20th January 2022State what happens to the current in a series circuit if an extra identical bulb is added, assuming the battery voltage stays the same.
- 21st January 2022Name the organ system that carries electrical signals around the body to allow a fast reflex reaction, such as pulling a hand away from something hot.
- 22nd January 2022State the word equation for aerobic respiration.
- 23rd January 2022State the name given to a value read from a graph beyond the range of the data that was actually measured.
- 24th January 2022A writer describes the wind as "clawing at their jackets, determined to drag them off the mountain." Name the technique used here.
- 25th January 2022What do the letters PAF stand for when analysing a non-fiction text?
- 26th January 2022A newspaper report about a restored pier states: 'Engineers replaced over eleven thousand individual timbers during the two-year project.' What retrieval detail answers the question, how many timbers were replaced?
- 27th January 2022Give one example of a statistic a writer might use to persuade readers to use fewer plastic bags.
- 28th January 2022Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The wind howled, and the shutters rattled.'
- 29th January 2022Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "The train arrived late."
- 30th January 2022Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: fresh bread the baker called still warm from the oven
- 31st January 2022A fair six-sided dice is rolled once. Find the probability of rolling a number greater than 4.