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February 2024 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day

Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in February 2024, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.

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February 2024

29 sheets · 145 questions · Years 7-8

Every sheet in February 2024

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st February 2024A journey of 240 km takes 4 hours at a constant speed. Work out the speed in km/h.
  2. 2nd February 2024In the food chain 'grass, rabbit, fox', name the primary consumer.
  3. 3rd February 2024State one physical property that distinguishes a typical non-metal from a typical metal.
  4. 4th February 2024State the law of reflection.
  5. 5th February 2024A student shouts and hears an echo 0.6 s later off a distant wall. Given the speed of sound in air is 340 m/s, calculate the total distance travelled by the sound (there and back).
  6. 6th February 2024State one function of the human skeleton, other than support.
  7. 7th February 2024Name the enzyme found in saliva that begins the digestion of starch in the mouth.
  8. 8th February 2024A question is worth 4 marks and asks you to explain the effect of a writer's language in a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
  9. 9th February 2024Which punctuation mark correctly joins these two related sentences into one: 'The rain finally stopped ___ the match could go ahead after all.'
  10. 10th February 2024Add a hyphen where needed: a ten year old girl won the competition.
  11. 11th February 2024Explain why a poet might end a poem about autumn with a single short line, such as 'Then, silence.'
  12. 12th February 2024A poem has three-line stanzas with no rhyme at all. What effect might this irregular structure create?
  13. 13th February 2024A climber 'gripped the rope until his knuckles turned white, then made himself let go, one finger at a time.' What does this suggest about the difficulty of what he is doing?
  14. 14th February 2024Add an apostrophe in the correct place: The three girls coats were left on the bus. (There is one coat per girl, and three girls in total.)
  15. 15th February 2024Which word means the same as "enormous" in a sentence describing a huge shipwreck: "colossal", "tiny", "narrow" or "shallow"?
  16. 16th February 2024A cinema charges 6.50 pounds for an adult ticket and 4.20 pounds for a child ticket. A family buys tickets for 2 adults and 3 children. Work out the total cost, without using a calculator.
  17. 17th February 2024Work out 9 x 8.
  18. 18th February 2024Work out (4 + 3) x (9 - 5).
  19. 19th February 2024y is directly proportional to x^2. When x = 4, y = 32. Work out y when x = 6.
  20. 20th February 2024Write the ratio 18:24 in its simplest form.
  21. 21st February 2024Work out 8.4 x 6, using a written method.
  22. 22nd February 2024A dice has its six faces numbered 1 to 6, arranged so opposite faces always add up to 7. The face showing 2 is on top, and the face showing 3 is facing you. Work out which number is on the bottom face, and which number is on the face directly opposite the one facing you.
  23. 23rd February 2024State the order of rotational symmetry and the number of lines of symmetry of a regular pentagon.
  24. 24th February 2024Write the next two terms of the sequence: 3, 7, 11, 15, ...
  25. 25th February 2024State one way bile helps with the digestion of fats.
  26. 26th February 2024In the reactivity series, state which is more reactive: zinc or copper.
  27. 27th February 2024Write the number 0.048706 to 2 significant figures.
  28. 28th February 2024State the name of the rock type formed when magma cools and solidifies underground.
  29. 29th February 2024Write the word equation for photosynthesis.