Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
December 2023 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in December 2023, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in December 2023
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 2023Name the type of teeth used mainly for cutting food.
- 2nd December 2023State why it is good practice to run a quick preliminary (trial) experiment before starting the main investigation.
- 3rd December 2023A writer describes the wind as "clawing at their jackets, determined to drag them off the mountain." Name the technique used here.
- 4th December 2023What do the letters PAF stand for when analysing a non-fiction text?
- 5th December 2023A newspaper report about a restored pier states: 'Engineers replaced over eleven thousand individual timbers during the two-year project.' What retrieval detail answers the question, how many timbers were replaced?
- 6th December 2023Give one example of a statistic a writer might use to persuade readers to use fewer plastic bags.
- 7th December 2023Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The wind howled, and the shutters rattled.'
- 8th December 2023Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "The train arrived late."
- 9th December 2023Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: fresh bread the baker called still warm from the oven
- 10th December 2023A coin is flipped 200 times and lands on heads 118 times. Calculate the relative frequency of landing on heads.
- 11th December 2023In a right-angled triangle, the angle at A is 32 degrees and the adjacent side is 9 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse, to 1 decimal place.
- 12th December 2023A cylindrical tin has radius 4 cm and height 15 cm. Work out its volume, to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 13th December 2023Simplify the ratio 32:12.
- 14th December 2023Two hockey teams recorded the number of goals they scored in their last 5 matches. Team A: 2, 3, 2, 4, 4. Team B: 0, 1, 5, 6, 3. Compare the two teams by working out the mean and the range for each.
- 15th December 2023Simplify sqrt(50) - sqrt(8), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(2).
- 16th December 2023Factorise fully 10x + 15.
- 17th December 2023Work out 2^5 - 3^3.
- 18th December 2023Write 3/8 as a percentage.
- 19th December 2023A pupil views onion cells under a microscope after adding a drop of iodine solution to the slide. State why the iodine solution was added.
- 20th December 2023A student dissolves ammonium nitrate in water and the temperature of the solution falls. State whether this process is exothermic or endothermic.
- 21st December 2023State one reason, other than cost, why a country might want to reduce its reliance on non-renewable energy resources such as coal and oil.
- 22nd December 2023State whether a frog is classified as a vertebrate or an invertebrate, and give a reason.
- 23rd December 2023Name the process by which plants lose water vapour from their leaves.
- 24th December 2023Name the process used to neutralise an acid using an alkali.
- 25th December 2023This sentence contains a comma splice: The match ended in a draw, both teams were happy. Correct it in one way.
- 26th December 2023A writer describes sawdust as 'settling like a light snowfall over every surface.' Name the technique used.
- 27th December 2023In an extract, a character "kept glancing at the door and twisting the strap of her bag." What does this suggest about the character's feelings?
- 28th December 2023Write one short sentence (no more than five words) suitable for a moment of sudden shock in a story.
- 29th December 2023Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: The gates creaked open.
- 30th December 2023What is the effect of directly addressing an audience as 'you' in a speech?
- 31st December 2023A campaign letter opens with a short, true story about one family affected by flooding, before giving any statistics. What is this technique called, and why might a writer use it first?