Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
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.
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.
- 1st February 2025Name the force that causes objects to fall towards the ground when dropped.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 5th February 2025A poem compares loneliness to 'an empty chair at a crowded table.' Name this technique.
- 6th February 2025Explain why a poet might choose an irregular, unpredictable rhythm to describe a storm, rather than a steady, regular one.
- 7th February 2025Choose the correct homophone: ___ going to be late if the bus does not arrive soon. (Whose / Who's)
- 8th February 2025Identify the subordinate clause in this sentence: Because the fire alarm sounded, everyone left the building calmly.
- 9th February 2025What is the term for a poem that continues a sentence or idea from one line to the next without a pause?
- 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?
- 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?
- 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.
- 13th February 2025Find 3/8 of 64.
- 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.
- 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.)
- 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.
- 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.
- 18th February 2025Work out the mean of 8, 12, 15, 9 and 11.
- 19th February 2025Find 25% of 84 pounds.
- 20th February 2025Name the male gamete and the female gamete involved in human reproduction.
- 21st February 2025Name the acid that produces nitrate salts.
- 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.
- 23rd February 2025Name the salt formed when hydrochloric acid reacts with sodium hydroxide.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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?