Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
December 2022 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in December 2022, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in December 2022
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 2022State the method used to extract aluminium from its ore, and explain why this method is needed rather than reduction with carbon.
- 2nd December 2022Name the organs whose main job is to filter waste products out of the blood and produce urine.
- 3rd December 2022Name the continuous process by which rocks are broken down, transported, deposited, and can eventually reform into new rock types.
- 4th December 2022A pupil measures the volume of a gas produced in a reaction every 30 seconds. State whether the volume of gas is the independent or the dependent variable.
- 5th December 2022A student reads the volume of liquid in a measuring cylinder. The bottom of the meniscus lines up exactly halfway between the 22 cm^3 and 24 cm^3 graduation marks. State the volume of liquid.
- 6th December 2022A non-fiction text about volcanoes uses the heading "How an Eruption Happens." What is the purpose of this heading?
- 7th December 2022What is the name for a poem written in three-line stanzas?
- 8th December 2022A poem has four-line stanzas with an ABAB rhyme scheme throughout. What effect might this regular structure have on the reader?
- 9th December 2022Insert a colon in the correct place: The kit list included the following items a torch, a compass and a whistle.
- 10th December 2022Correct the subject-verb agreement error: The team of swimmers were training every morning.
- 11th December 2022A poem compares the fox's eyes to 'two small, cold coins.' Name this technique.
- 12th December 2022You are asked to summarise a paragraph in one sentence. What is the biggest risk to avoid?
- 13th December 2022A conversion graph shows that 5 miles is equivalent to 8 kilometres. Using this scale, convert 20 miles to kilometres.
- 14th December 2022A survey asked 20 people how many pets they own: 5 people own 0 pets, 8 own 1 pet, 4 own 2 pets, and 3 own 3 pets. Work out the mean number of pets owned.
- 15th December 2022Write 3/5 as a decimal.
- 16th December 2022A recipe for 8 people uses flour, sugar and butter in the ratio 4 : 3 : 1 by weight, totalling 800 g. Work out how many grams of sugar are needed to make the recipe for 12 people.
- 17th December 2022A circle has a radius of 10 cm. Work out the area of a sector with an angle of 72 degrees at the centre, giving your answer to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 18th December 2022Expand and simplify (x + 5)(x - 3).
- 19th December 2022Simplify sqrt(75) - sqrt(12), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(3).
- 20th December 2022Work out 9.6 divided by 0.4.
- 21st December 2022Calculate 47 + 36.
- 22nd December 2022Name the male gamete and the female gamete involved in human reproduction.
- 23rd December 2022Name the acid that produces nitrate salts.
- 24th December 2022Name the circuit component whose symbol is a circle with a cross inside it.
- 25th December 2022Name the process by which digested food molecules pass from the small intestine into the blood.
- 26th December 2022An old-style filament light bulb transfers 100 J of electrical energy. Of this, 20 J is transferred usefully as light, and the rest is wasted as heat. Calculate the energy wasted as heat.
- 27th December 2022A pupil applies a force of 10 N to move an object 2 m in the direction of the force. Use work done = force x distance to calculate the work done.
- 28th December 2022A student wears safety goggles when heating a test tube of liquid over a Bunsen burner. State the hazard that the goggles help protect against.
- 29th December 2022A guide tells the group "we're nearly there" in a steady voice, but keeps glancing anxiously at the darkening sky. Explain what the contrast between his words and his glances suggests.
- 30th December 2022You are asked to summarise a paragraph in one sentence. What is the biggest risk to avoid?
- 31st December 2022Give one feature, other than headings, that a factual magazine article might use to help organise information for the reader.