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February 2025 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day

Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in February 2025, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.

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February 2025

28 sheets · 140 questions · Years 7-8

Every sheet in February 2025

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 2025Name the force that causes objects to fall towards the ground when dropped.
  2. 2nd February 2025A pupil measures the volume of a gas produced in a reaction every 30 seconds. State whether the volume of gas is the independent or the dependent variable.
  3. 3rd February 2025A cylinder of gas is labelled with a diamond-shaped symbol showing a black flame on an orange background. State what hazard this symbol represents.
  4. 4th February 2025A writer describes rising ocean temperatures as "a slow-burning threat to one of the planet's most colourful ecosystems." Explain what effect the phrase "slow-burning" has on the reader.
  5. 5th February 2025A poem compares loneliness to 'an empty chair at a crowded table.' Name this technique.
  6. 6th February 2025Explain why a poet might choose an irregular, unpredictable rhythm to describe a storm, rather than a steady, regular one.
  7. 7th February 2025Choose the correct homophone: ___ going to be late if the bus does not arrive soon. (Whose / Who's)
  8. 8th February 2025Identify the subordinate clause in this sentence: Because the fire alarm sounded, everyone left the building calmly.
  9. 9th February 2025What is the term for a poem that continues a sentence or idea from one line to the next without a pause?
  10. 10th February 2025A travel article is written for a general newspaper audience rather than for expert climbers. How might its vocabulary and level of detail differ from a specialist mountaineering magazine?
  11. 11th February 2025On a distance-time graph, a cyclist's journey is shown as a horizontal line for 15 minutes. What does this tell you about the cyclist during this time?
  12. 12th February 2025A survey asked 20 people how many pets they own: 5 people own 0 pets, 8 own 1 pet, 4 own 2 pets, and 3 own 3 pets. Work out the mean number of pets owned.
  13. 13th February 2025Find 3/8 of 64.
  14. 14th February 2025A recipe for 8 people uses flour, sugar and butter in the ratio 4 : 3 : 1 by weight, totalling 800 g. Work out how many grams of sugar are needed to make the recipe for 12 people.
  15. 15th February 2025A circle has a radius of 10 cm. Work out the area of a sector with an angle of 72 degrees at the centre, giving your answer to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
  16. 16th February 2025In a right-angled triangle, the hypotenuse is 13 cm and one other side is 5 cm. Work out the size of the angle opposite the 5 cm side, to 1 decimal place.
  17. 17th February 2025A triangle has sides 7 cm and 9 cm with an included angle of 50 degrees. Work out its area, to 1 decimal place.
  18. 18th February 2025Work out the mean of 8, 12, 15, 9 and 11.
  19. 19th February 2025Find 25% of 84 pounds.
  20. 20th February 2025Name the male gamete and the female gamete involved in human reproduction.
  21. 21st February 2025Name the acid that produces nitrate salts.
  22. 22nd February 2025A torch bulb has a resistance of 15 ohms and a current of 0.2 A flows through it. Use V = I x R to calculate the voltage across the bulb.
  23. 23rd February 2025Name the salt formed when hydrochloric acid reacts with sodium hydroxide.
  24. 24th February 2025A pupil wants to measure the current flowing through a lamp in a circuit. Name the piece of apparatus she needs, and state whether it should be connected in series or in parallel with the lamp.
  25. 25th February 2025A pupil applies a force of 10 N to move an object 2 m in the direction of the force. Use work done = force x distance to calculate the work done.
  26. 26th February 2025A student wears safety goggles when heating a test tube of liquid over a Bunsen burner. State the hazard that the goggles help protect against.
  27. 27th February 2025A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how the writer builds a sense of danger across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
  28. 28th February 2025A travel article is written for a general newspaper audience rather than for expert climbers. How might its vocabulary and level of detail differ from a specialist mountaineering magazine?