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April 2023 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day

Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in April 2023, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.

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April 2023

30 sheets · 150 questions · Years 7-8

Every sheet in April 2023

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 2023Choose the correct homophone: ___ going to be late if the bus does not arrive soon. (Whose / Who's)
  2. 2nd April 2023Identify the subordinate clause in this sentence: Because the fire alarm sounded, everyone left the building calmly.
  3. 3rd April 2023What is the term for a poem that continues a sentence or idea from one line to the next without a pause?
  4. 4th April 2023What do the letters PAF stand for when analysing a non-fiction text?
  5. 5th April 2023Find the gradient of the line joining (1, 4) and (5, 16).
  6. 6th April 2023A phone contract costs 18.50 pounds per month for 24 months, plus an upfront cost of 49 pounds. Work out the total cost of the contract.
  7. 7th April 2023Find 3/8 of 64.
  8. 8th April 2023Solve 3(2x - 1) = x + 17.
  9. 9th April 2023Describe the locus of points that are equidistant from two fixed points, A and B.
  10. 10th April 2023In a right-angled triangle, the hypotenuse is 13 cm and one other side is 5 cm. Work out the size of the angle opposite the 5 cm side, to 1 decimal place.
  11. 11th April 2023A triangle has sides 7 cm and 9 cm with an included angle of 50 degrees. Work out its area, to 1 decimal place.
  12. 12th April 2023Work out the mean of 8, 12, 15, 9 and 11.
  13. 13th April 2023Find 25% of 84 pounds.
  14. 14th April 2023A doctor records that a foetus is 38 weeks old. Given that human gestation lasts approximately 40 weeks, state approximately how many weeks of pregnancy remain.
  15. 15th April 2023A student adds a piece of unknown grey solid to dilute acid and no bubbles are produced, even after several minutes. Suggest whether the solid is a metal or a non-metal, and explain your reasoning.
  16. 16th April 2023A student doubles the frequency of a wave while keeping its speed the same. State what happens to the wavelength.
  17. 17th April 2023Two identical bulbs are each connected on their own to an identical battery. State how the brightness of a bulb connected on its own compares with an identical bulb connected in series with a second bulb to the same type of battery.
  18. 18th April 2023State how long it takes, approximately, for the Moon to orbit the Earth once.
  19. 19th April 2023Name the gas needed by the body for aerobic respiration to take place.
  20. 20th April 2023A student investigates how the mass of five different metal samples affects their volume, with mass as a continuous numerical variable. State whether a bar chart or a line graph is the more appropriate way to display these results.
  21. 21st April 2023A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how the writer builds a sense of danger across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
  22. 22nd April 2023A travel article is written for a general newspaper audience rather than for expert climbers. How might its vocabulary and level of detail differ from a specialist mountaineering magazine?
  23. 23rd April 2023In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The submersible's hull must withstand immense pressure at such depths, where a single flaw could prove catastrophic.' What does 'catastrophic' mean here?
  24. 24th April 2023Name the technique used in this slogan: Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.
  25. 25th April 2023Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for 'the alleyway at dusk.'
  26. 26th April 2023Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: "The station was BUSY."
  27. 27th April 2023Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for "the fruit stall."
  28. 28th April 2023Two coins are flipped at the same time. List all the possible outcomes, and find the probability of getting exactly one head.
  29. 29th April 2023A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 5 cm and 12 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
  30. 30th April 2023The nth term of a sequence is 4n + 3. Work out the 20th term.