Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
May 2024 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in May 2024, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in May 2024
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2024Five pupils recorded the number of minutes they spent reading yesterday: 9, 13, 20, 11, 17. Find the mean number of minutes.
- 2nd May 2024Name the organelle found in both plant and animal cells that is the site of aerobic respiration.
- 3rd May 2024A block of wood has a mass of 60 g and a volume of 80 cm^3. Calculate its density.
- 4th May 2024A farmer weighing 900 N stands on the ground. Her boots have a total sole area of 0.03 m^2. Use pressure = force / area to calculate the pressure she exerts on the ground, giving your answer in Pa.
- 5th May 2024A ray of light travels from air into a glass block and bends towards the normal at the boundary. Name this effect.
- 6th May 2024Name one structure found in a plant cell that is not found in an animal cell.
- 7th May 2024A wave has a wavelength of 2 m and a frequency of 5 Hz. Use wave speed = frequency x wavelength to calculate its speed.
- 8th May 2024A pupil's results table is missing units for one column, headed only 'Volume'. State why it is important to always include a unit in a column heading or with a numerical answer.
- 9th May 2024Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "Although the handle was rusted solid, the door creaked open at last."
- 10th May 2024Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: hurry up whispered Kofi we havent got much time
- 11th May 2024A question asks you to 'state one reason why the train was delayed, using evidence from the text.' What kind of answer is required?
- 12th May 2024A diver notices 'a single brass buckle winking in the torchlight.' Which word suggests the buckle is briefly catching and reflecting the light?
- 13th May 2024In the phrase "silent, secret snow", which technique is being used?
- 14th May 2024What is a counter-argument, and why might a writer include one?
- 15th May 2024In the phrase "silent, snow-hushed streets", which technique is being used?
- 16th May 2024Calculate the perimeter of a rectangle measuring 14 cm by 8.5 cm.
- 17th May 2024A pack of 24 pencils costs 3.60 pounds. Work out the cost of one pencil.
- 18th May 2024Write 0.35 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 19th May 2024A parallelogram has base 12 cm and perpendicular height 5 cm. Work out its area.
- 20th May 20243 workers can paint a fence in 8 hours, working at the same constant rate. How long would it take 4 workers to paint the same fence?
- 21st May 2024Find 10% of 95 pounds.
- 22nd May 2024Work out 9 x 8.
- 23rd May 2024A coat costs 80 pounds. It is reduced by 35% in a sale. Work out the sale price.
- 24th May 2024Work out 15% of 60.
- 25th May 2024Complete the word equation for photosynthesis: carbon dioxide + water produces ___ + ___.
- 26th May 2024Explain why a pencil, not a pen, must be used to draw the baseline on chromatography paper.
- 27th May 2024Put these bodies in order of their distance from the Sun, starting with the closest: Mars, Mercury, Earth, Venus.
- 28th May 2024State whether elements in the same group of the periodic table have similar or very different chemical properties.
- 29th May 2024Give the chemical symbol for the element sodium.
- 30th May 2024State the name of a reaction in which a more reactive metal displaces a less reactive metal from a compound.
- 31st May 2024A question asks you to 'summarise the passage in your own words.' What must you avoid doing when answering it?