Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
September 2023 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in September 2023, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in September 2023
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 2023Name the two products of photosynthesis.
- 2nd September 2023A pupil adds universal indicator to a solution and it turns red. State whether the solution is acidic, alkaline or neutral.
- 3rd September 2023Add an apostrophe in the correct place: The two teams kits were both muddy after the match. (There is one kit set per team, and two teams in total.)
- 4th September 2023In the sentence 'The old clock in the hallway ticked with the patience of a watchman,' which word gives the clock a human quality?
- 5th September 2023A character mutters "It's nothing" while quickly hiding a letter in his pocket. Explain what the contrast between his words and actions suggests.
- 6th September 2023Explain one way an ending can 'connect back' to the opening of a story.
- 7th September 2023Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: Although the fair had closed years ago, the carousel still turned.
- 8th September 2023Give one example of emotive language a speaker might use to persuade pupils that public speaking is worth the risk.
- 9th September 2023A speech opens with the line: 'Imagine losing your home in a single night.' What technique is this, and why is it an effective opening?
- 10th September 2023Round 4826 to the nearest hundred.
- 11th September 2023Solve x^2 + 3x - 10 = 0.
- 12th September 2023Without a calculator, work out 35% of 220.
- 13th September 2023Solve x^2 + 4x - 21 = 0.
- 14th September 2023A motorbike valued at 5,500 pounds depreciates by 18% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 15th September 2023Work out 4.7 x 3.6, giving your answer to 1 decimal place.
- 16th September 2023A car travels 189 miles using 7 gallons of fuel. Work out the miles per gallon.
- 17th September 2023A pair of trainers costs 45 pounds. The price increases by 20%. Work out the new price.
- 18th September 2023A bag contains 5 red counters and 7 blue counters. Two counters are taken from the bag at random, one after the other, without replacement. Find the probability that both counters are the same colour.
- 19th September 2023Put these organs in the order food passes through them during digestion: large intestine, mouth, stomach, small intestine, oesophagus.
- 20th September 2023A pupil finds the volume of an irregular stone using a measuring cylinder. The water level rises from 35 cm^3 to 52 cm^3 when the stone is added. The stone has a mass of 42.5 g. Calculate the density of the stone, giving your answer to 2 significant figures.
- 21st September 2023State whether the main force acting when a compass needle points north is a contact force or a non-contact force.
- 22nd September 2023State whether burning magnesium ribbon in air to form magnesium oxide is a physical change or a chemical change, and give a reason.
- 23rd September 2023Using the reactivity series, state whether iron would react with a solution of copper sulfate, given that iron is more reactive than copper.
- 24th September 2023Name the piece of equipment used to separate an insoluble solid from a liquid.
- 25th September 2023A pupil uses a stopwatch to measure how long a candle takes to burn down by 1 cm, but forgets to shield the candle from a draught in the room. State whether this makes the result less reliable or less valid, and explain your answer.
- 26th September 2023Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: dont go any further whispered grace something isnt right down here
- 27th September 2023Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The fog rolled in, and the harbour lights dimmed to a blur.'
- 28th September 2023A five-mark question asks you to explain how the writer builds a sense of frustration across the whole extract. What should your answer cover?
- 29th September 2023A question is worth 3 marks and asks you to explain the effect of a description. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
- 30th September 2023If a poem's rhythm becomes short and broken in its final stanza after being steady throughout, what might this suggest?