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April 2022 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day

Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in April 2022, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.

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April 2022

30 sheets · 150 questions · Years 7-8

Every sheet in April 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 April 2022A question is worth 4 marks and asks you to explain the effect of a writer's language in a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
  2. 2nd April 2022Which punctuation mark correctly joins these two related sentences into one: 'The rain finally stopped ___ the match could go ahead after all.'
  3. 3rd April 2022Add a hyphen where needed: a ten year old girl won the competition.
  4. 4th April 2022Explain why a poet might end a poem about autumn with a single short line, such as 'Then, silence.'
  5. 5th April 2022A poem has three-line stanzas with no rhyme at all. What effect might this irregular structure create?
  6. 6th April 2022A climber 'gripped the rope until his knuckles turned white, then made himself let go, one finger at a time.' What does this suggest about the difficulty of what he is doing?
  7. 7th April 2022In the sentence 'The overexcited puppy chewed through the new shoe,' what word class is 'chewed'?
  8. 8th April 2022Which word means the same as "enormous" in a sentence describing a huge shipwreck: "colossal", "tiny", "narrow" or "shallow"?
  9. 9th April 2022Without a calculator, work out 15% of 180.
  10. 10th April 2022Work out 9 x 8.
  11. 11th April 2022Work out (4 + 3) x (9 - 5).
  12. 12th April 2022y is directly proportional to x^2. When x = 4, y = 32. Work out y when x = 6.
  13. 13th April 2022Write the ratio 18:24 in its simplest form.
  14. 14th April 2022Work out 8.4 x 6, using a written method.
  15. 15th April 2022A rectangular field measuring 60 m by 40 m is to be divided into identical square plots, as large as possible, with no land left over. Work out the side length of each square plot, and the total number of plots.
  16. 16th April 2022State the order of rotational symmetry and the number of lines of symmetry of a regular pentagon.
  17. 17th April 2022Find the nth term of the sequence 2, 5, 8, 11, ...
  18. 18th April 2022Put these structures in the order air passes through them when breathing in, starting from the windpipe: alveoli, bronchi, trachea, bronchioles.
  19. 19th April 2022A piece of magnesium ribbon is added to silver nitrate solution. State whether a displacement reaction would occur, and explain why.
  20. 20th April 2022A results table has columns for 'Time (s)' and 'Temperature (degrees C)'. State which of these two variables would normally be plotted on the x-axis of a line graph.
  21. 21st April 2022State which planet in the Solar System is closest to the Sun.
  22. 22nd April 2022State the pH value of a neutral solution, such as pure water.
  23. 23rd April 2022Amara is investigating how the mass of a paper cone affects how long it takes to fall from a fixed height. State the independent variable and the dependent variable in this investigation.
  24. 24th April 2022In a factual text, is the sentence "Hot air balloons were first flown in France in 1783" a fact or an opinion?
  25. 25th April 2022A poem repeats the phrase 'and still it climbed' at the end of every stanza. What is this technique called, and what might its effect be?
  26. 26th April 2022Find and copy one word from the phrase 'the old clock ticked its patient rhythm' that gives the clock a human quality.
  27. 27th April 2022Which punctuation mark correctly joins these two sentences without adding a joining word: 'The coach was late the pupils waited in the hall.'?
  28. 28th April 2022Choose the correct word: I'm not sure ___ my umbrella is. (where / were / we're)
  29. 29th April 2022A poem is written in a single, unbroken stanza with no rhyme. What effect might this create?
  30. 30th April 2022A biography states that a person 'left school at fourteen to support her family, and by twenty-one had opened her own shop.' What can a reader infer about this person's character from these facts?