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

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

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November 2023

30 sheets · 150 questions · Years 7-8

Every sheet in November 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 November 2023In a class of 30 pupils, 18 play football, 14 play tennis, and 7 play both football and tennis. How many pupils play neither football nor tennis?
  2. 2nd November 2023Convert 4.2 metres into centimetres.
  3. 3rd November 2023Write the first four terms of the sequence with nth term 2n^2.
  4. 4th November 2023Name the enzyme that digests starch, and state the product it is broken down into.
  5. 5th November 2023Name the gas released when fossil fuels are burned that is the main cause of the enhanced greenhouse effect.
  6. 6th November 2023A pupil measures a length as 250 mm. State this length in metres.
  7. 7th November 2023State how many natural moons orbit the Earth.
  8. 8th November 2023Name the force that opposes the motion of an object moving through air.
  9. 9th November 2023A thermometer has graduations every 1 degree C. A student takes a single temperature reading of 40 degrees C. Calculate the percentage uncertainty in this reading.
  10. 10th November 2023A text about coral reefs moves from explaining what coral is, to how reefs form, to why they are under threat. What is this structure called?
  11. 11th November 2023Explain why a poet might use short, one-word lines to describe a sudden event, such as an accident.
  12. 12th November 2023A poem compares grief to 'a stone carried in the pocket, never quite forgotten.' Name this technique.
  13. 13th November 2023Correct the tense error: Last week, the choir practises for two hours every evening.
  14. 14th November 2023Punctuate this exchange between two speakers, starting a new line for each: are you ready asked sam almost said priya
  15. 15th November 2023Which two poetic techniques appear in the line 'The streetlamp's silver stare slid over its fur'?
  16. 16th November 2023In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The expedition team faced constant attrition - illness, injury and exhaustion wore down their numbers day by day.' What does 'attrition' mean here?
  17. 17th November 2023A train travels 90 km in 1.5 hours at a constant speed, shown as a straight line on a distance-time graph. Calculate the gradient of this line, and state what it represents.
  18. 18th November 2023A cylindrical water butt has a radius of 35 cm and a height of 120 cm. Work out its volume, giving your answer in cm^3 to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
  19. 19th November 2023Find 35% of 180.
  20. 20th November 2023Two numbers are in the ratio 4 : 7. Their sum is 66. Work out the difference between the two numbers.
  21. 21st November 2023A shape is made from a rectangle measuring 12 cm by 8 cm, with a right-angled triangle of base 6 cm and height 8 cm removed from one corner. Work out the area of the remaining shape.
  22. 22nd November 2023Simplify sqrt(45) + sqrt(20), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(5).
  23. 23rd November 2023A chord subtends an angle of 76 degrees at the centre of a circle. Work out the angle it subtends at the circumference, on the major arc.
  24. 24th November 2023A journey of 84 km takes 1 hour 45 minutes. Work out the average speed in km/h.
  25. 25th November 2023A car travels 210 km in 3.5 hours at a constant speed. Calculate how far it would travel in 5 hours at the same speed.
  26. 26th November 2023State the name of the structure that allows oxygen and nutrients to pass from a mother's blood to her developing foetus.
  27. 27th November 2023Name the salt produced when zinc reacts with sulfuric acid.
  28. 28th November 2023A wave has a frequency of 50 Hz and a wavelength of 4 m. Use wave speed = frequency x wavelength to calculate its speed.
  29. 29th November 2023State the pH of a neutral solution such as pure water.
  30. 30th November 2023State whether the Earth casting a shadow that blocks sunlight from reaching the Moon is called a solar eclipse or a lunar eclipse.