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

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

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July 2023

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 7-8

Every sheet in July 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 July 2023Find and copy one word from 'the anvil's patient, unmoving weight' that gives the anvil a human quality.
  2. 2nd July 2023Which word class is 'desperately' in 'He desperately searched for a handhold'?
  3. 3rd July 2023Choose the correct homophone to complete the sentence: The dog wagged ___ tail happily. (its / it's)
  4. 4th July 2023A question asks you to "find and copy one phrase" meaning "completely dark." Which of these fits: "pitch black", "faintly lit", "clear blue" or "softly glowing"?
  5. 5th July 2023A rectangle has length 9 cm and width 6 cm. Work out its area and its perimeter.
  6. 6th July 2023Convert 2 hours 15 minutes into minutes.
  7. 7th July 2023Find 2/9 of 63.
  8. 8th July 2023Write 5.4 x 10^4 as an ordinary number.
  9. 9th July 2023A recipe needs 250 g of flour to make 8 muffins. Work out how much flour is needed to make 20 muffins at the same recipe strength.
  10. 10th July 2023Write 0.72 as a fraction in its simplest form.
  11. 11th July 2023A floor is tiled with a repeating pattern of identical regular hexagonal tiles, with no gaps or overlaps. State the size of each interior angle of a regular hexagon, and explain why regular hexagons can tile a flat floor exactly.
  12. 12th July 2023A cuboid has dimensions 6 cm by 4 cm by 3 cm. Calculate its volume.
  13. 13th July 2023A pattern of dots grows so that pattern 1 has 4 dots, pattern 2 has 7 dots, and pattern 3 has 10 dots. How many dots will pattern 6 have?
  14. 14th July 2023State one way the alveoli are adapted for efficient gas exchange.
  15. 15th July 2023Explain why attaching a block of zinc to the hull of a steel ship helps to protect the ship from rusting.
  16. 16th July 2023Explain how a person is able to see a book resting on a table in a well-lit room, in terms of light rays.
  17. 17th July 2023Explain one way in which a polar bear's thick white fur helps it survive in the Arctic.
  18. 18th July 2023Name the gas that makes up approximately 78% of the Earth's atmosphere.
  19. 19th July 2023Which piece of apparatus should be used to measure the temperature of a liquid in an experiment?
  20. 20th July 2023In the same text, is the sentence "There is nothing more thrilling than floating silently above the countryside" a fact or an opinion?
  21. 21st July 2023Find and copy one word from 'the tide dragged its heavy silver chain across the sand' that gives the tide a human or animal-like quality.
  22. 22nd July 2023Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The wind whispered through the willow'?
  23. 23rd July 2023Add the missing apostrophe: The three teachers offices were being redecorated. (There are three teachers, each with their own office.)
  24. 24th July 2023Add a semicolon in the correct place: The bus was late the queue grew longer by the minute.
  25. 25th July 2023Explain why a poet might choose soft, hissing sounds, sibilance, to describe a fox moving at night, rather than harsh, hard sounds.
  26. 26th July 2023A newspaper report about a school's new library states: 'The library, funded entirely by a single anonymous donation, opened its doors last Tuesday.' What retrieval detail answers the question, how was the library funded?
  27. 27th July 2023A straight line passes through (0, 5) and has a gradient of -2. Write down its equation.
  28. 28th July 2023The nth term of a sequence is 5n - 2. Work out the 15th term.
  29. 29th July 2023Convert the recurring decimal 0.3636... (where the digits 36 recur) to a fraction in its simplest form.
  30. 30th July 20233/4 of a number is 54. Work out 5/6 of the same number.
  31. 31st July 2023Work out the size of each interior angle of a regular decagon (10 sides).