Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
December 2024 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in December 2024, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in December 2024
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 2024Identify the four stages of a well-structured short narrative.
- 2nd December 2024Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: dont go near the big wheel warned tom its not safe
- 3rd December 2024A speaker opens with a short, true story about one shy pupil who became the club's best speaker. What is this technique called?
- 4th December 2024Name the persuasive technique used in this slogan: 'Save money. Save time. Save the planet.'
- 5th December 2024List all the factors of 30, and state the highest common factor (HCF) of 30 and 45.
- 6th December 2024The three angles of a triangle are in the ratio 2 : 3 : 4. Work out the size of the largest angle.
- 7th December 2024Simplify 7x - 3y + 2x + 8y.
- 8th December 2024A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 7 cm and 24 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 9th December 2024A bag contains 9 red, 8 blue and 7 green counters only. A counter is picked at random. Work out the probability it is green, giving your answer as a decimal to 3 significant figures.
- 10th December 2024Work out 15% of 340 pounds.
- 11th December 2024Work out 8.3 x 5.2, giving your answer to 1 decimal place.
- 12th December 2024Simplify the ratio 45:60.
- 13th December 2024A netball team played 20 matches. The table shows goals scored per match. Goals: 0, 1, 2, 3. Frequency: 4, 7, 6, 3. Calculate the mean number of goals per match.
- 14th December 2024A slice of toast contains 12 g of carbohydrate, 4 g of protein and 3 g of fat. Each gram of carbohydrate and each gram of protein provides 4 kcal of energy, and each gram of fat provides 9 kcal. Calculate the total energy content of the toast.
- 15th December 2024Name the technique used to separate sand from a mixture of sand and water.
- 16th December 2024Ben has a mass of 12 kg. Calculate his weight on Earth. Use weight = mass x gravitational field strength, with g = 10 N/kg.
- 17th December 2024State the name given to a substance that speeds up a chemical reaction without being permanently used up itself.
- 18th December 2024State one advantage of using solar power to generate electricity, compared with burning fossil fuels.
- 19th December 2024State the name of the process by which oxygen moves from the air in the lungs into the blood.
- 20th December 2024A pupil wants to find out whether increasing the concentration of a salt solution affects the boiling point of water. Suggest one variable, other than salt concentration, that should be kept the same for this to be a fair test.
- 21st December 2024Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: "The cellar was DARK."
- 22nd December 2024Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'Although the fog was thick, the fishermen still set out.'
- 23rd December 2024In an extract, the writer moves from describing the busy platform to focusing closely on one child crying by the ticket barrier. What effect might this shift in focus create?
- 24th December 2024Find and copy one word from 'the corridor swallowed the beam of her torch' that gives the corridor a human or animal-like quality.
- 25th December 2024A poem describes a train as having a "rattling, roaring, rumbling" journey. Name the technique shown by these three words together.
- 26th December 2024An article opens with a short story about one pupil who found a favourite book by accident, before making any wider argument. What is this technique called?
- 27th December 2024A poem has six lines in each stanza with no regular rhyme pattern. What is this style called?
- 28th December 2024Calculate the area of a circle with a diameter of 20 cm. Use pi = 3.14.
- 29th December 2024Work out 12 x 7.
- 30th December 2024Work out 7 x 8 + 6 x 3.
- 31st December 2024Without a calculator, work out 45% of 160.