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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.

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January 2022

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 7-8

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.

  1. 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?
  2. 2nd January 2022Explain why a poet might use short, one-word lines to describe a sudden event, such as an accident.
  3. 3rd January 2022A poem compares grief to 'a stone carried in the pocket, never quite forgotten.' Name this technique.
  4. 4th January 2022Correct the tense error: Last week, the choir practises for two hours every evening.
  5. 5th January 2022Punctuate this exchange between two speakers, starting a new line for each: are you ready asked sam almost said priya
  6. 6th January 2022Which two poetic techniques appear in the line 'The streetlamp's silver stare slid over its fur'?
  7. 7th January 2022Give one feature, other than headings, that a factual magazine article might use to help organise information for the reader.
  8. 8th January 2022Find the midpoint of the line segment joining (-4, 2) and (6, -8).
  9. 9th January 2022Find the midpoint of the line segment joining A(-3, 5) and B(7, -1).
  10. 10th January 2022Find 35% of 180.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 13th January 2022Simplify sqrt(45) + sqrt(20), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(5).
  14. 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.
  15. 15th January 2022A journey of 84 km takes 1 hour 45 minutes. Work out the average speed in km/h.
  16. 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.
  17. 17th January 2022Name the organelle in a plant cell that contains chlorophyll and is the site of photosynthesis.
  18. 18th January 2022State the colour universal indicator turns in a strong alkali.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 22nd January 2022State the word equation for aerobic respiration.
  23. 23rd January 2022State the name given to a value read from a graph beyond the range of the data that was actually measured.
  24. 24th January 2022A writer describes the wind as "clawing at their jackets, determined to drag them off the mountain." Name the technique used here.
  25. 25th January 2022What do the letters PAF stand for when analysing a non-fiction text?
  26. 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?
  27. 27th January 2022Give one example of a statistic a writer might use to persuade readers to use fewer plastic bags.
  28. 28th January 2022Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The wind howled, and the shutters rattled.'
  29. 29th January 2022Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "The train arrived late."
  30. 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
  31. 31st January 2022A fair six-sided dice is rolled once. Find the probability of rolling a number greater than 4.