Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
September 2022 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in September 2022, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in September 2022
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 2022Describe the test for carbon dioxide gas, and state the positive result.
- 2nd September 2022A torch bulb has a resistance of 15 ohms and a current of 0.2 A flows through it. Use V = I x R to calculate the voltage across the bulb.
- 3rd September 2022Name the salt formed when hydrochloric acid reacts with sodium hydroxide.
- 4th September 2022A pupil wants to measure the current flowing through a lamp in a circuit. Name the piece of apparatus she needs, and state whether it should be connected in series or in parallel with the lamp.
- 5th September 2022A pupil measures the resultant force on an object as 0 N even though several forces are acting on it. State the term used to describe forces in this situation.
- 6th September 2022State the name given to a value read from a graph that lies between two points that were actually measured.
- 7th September 2022In an extract, a climber "kept checking the rope, tugging it twice before every step." What does this suggest about the climber?
- 8th September 2022In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The team faced constant setbacks - equipment failure, bad weather and dwindling supplies chipped away at morale.' What does 'dwindling' mean here?
- 9th September 2022A biography states that a scientist 'spent every evening after his factory shift teaching himself chemistry from borrowed textbooks.' What can a reader infer about this person from these facts?
- 10th September 2022An article opens with a short story about one seabird found tangled in plastic, before giving any wider statistics. What is this technique called?
- 11th September 2022Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: watch your step said the warden the path is icy
- 12th September 2022Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "Although the platform was crowded, Amara found a seat by the window."
- 13th September 2022Identify the fronted adverbial in this sentence: "Slowly, the shutters were raised one by one."
- 14th September 2022Find the median and the range of this data set: 7, 3, 9, 3, 12, 5.
- 15th September 2022Write 3.6 x 10^-3 as an ordinary number.
- 16th September 2022A laptop valued at 900 pounds depreciates by 12% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 17th September 2022Work out -15 + 4 x (-2).
- 18th September 2022A researcher wants to find the average pocket money received by pupils at a school, so she surveys only the pupils waiting outside the head teacher's office. Give one reason this is likely to produce a biased sample.
- 19th September 2022A triangle is inscribed in a circle so that one of its sides is a diameter of the circle. Explain, using a circle theorem, why the angle at the third vertex (opposite that side) must be 90 degrees.
- 20th September 2022Here are the first four terms of a sequence: 7, 11, 15, 19. Find an expression for the nth term.
- 21st September 2022Find the mean of 14, 18, 22, 16 and 20.
- 22nd September 2022A meal out costs 68 pounds before a 12.5% service charge is added. Calculate the total cost including the service charge.
- 23rd September 2022On a microscope, the eyepiece lens has a magnification of x10 and the objective lens in use has a magnification of x40. Calculate the total magnification.
- 24th September 2022In the disappearing cross experiment, a student times how long it takes for a cross under the flask to disappear from view. Explain why a shorter time indicates a faster reaction.
- 25th September 2022A skateboarder travels at a constant speed of 4 m/s for 6 seconds. Use acceleration = change in velocity / time taken to state his acceleration during this time, and explain what an acceleration of zero means about his motion.
- 26th September 2022A hand warmer gets hot when a chemical reaction inside it takes place. State whether this reaction is exothermic or endothermic.
- 27th September 2022A solid is heated until it turns directly into a gas without becoming a liquid first. Name this change of state.
- 28th September 2022State the approximate time it takes for light from the Sun to reach the Earth.
- 29th September 2022In the sentence "The exhausted runner collapsed across the finish line," what word class is "exhausted"?
- 30th September 2022A question asks you to 'find and copy one word which shows that the workshop was untidy.' What kind of question is this, and how should you answer it?