Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
May 2025 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in May 2025, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in May 2025
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2025A cliff is 170 m from a person who claps and hears the echo. Use distance = speed x time and a speed of sound of 340 m/s to calculate how long after the clap the echo is heard.
- 2nd May 2025State the number of protons found in an atom of oxygen, given that oxygen's atomic number is 8.
- 3rd May 2025Calculate the mean of these three repeat readings of a force: 4.2 N, 4.6 N, 4.4 N.
- 4th May 2025A circuit has a total resistance of 12 ohm and a current of 0.5 A flowing through it. Use V = I x R to calculate the voltage across the circuit.
- 5th May 2025In an extract, a character 'chewed his lip and stared at his shoes.' What does this suggest about the character's feelings?
- 6th May 2025Add a colon to this sentence in the correct place: The expedition needed three things warm clothing enough food and a reliable map.
- 7th May 2025Choose the correct word: There were ___ people at the concert than last year. (less / fewer)
- 8th May 2025Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The branches creaked and clawed at the window'?
- 9th May 2025Find and copy one word from 'the anvil's patient, unmoving weight' that gives the anvil a human quality.
- 10th May 2025Which word class is 'desperately' in 'He desperately searched for a handhold'?
- 11th May 2025Correct the punctuation in this sentence, which reports direct speech: she shouted watch out and pulled her brother back from the road
- 12th May 2025A question asks you to "find and copy one phrase" meaning "completely dark." Which of these fits: "pitch black", "faintly lit", "clear blue" or "softly glowing"?
- 13th May 2025The probability that a spinner lands on red is 0.35. Work out the probability that it does not land on red.
- 14th May 2025Convert 2 hours 15 minutes into minutes.
- 15th May 2025Find 2/9 of 63.
- 16th May 2025Write 5.4 x 10^4 as an ordinary number.
- 17th May 2025A recipe needs 250 g of flour to make 8 muffins. Work out how much flour is needed to make 20 muffins at the same recipe strength.
- 18th May 2025Write 0.72 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 19th May 2025A cube with side length 4 cm is built from 64 unit cubes, each 1 cm x 1 cm x 1 cm. The outside of the large cube is painted red, then it is taken apart into the 64 unit cubes again. How many of the unit cubes have exactly two faces painted red?
- 20th May 2025A cuboid has dimensions 6 cm by 4 cm by 3 cm. Calculate its volume.
- 21st May 2025The nth term of a sequence is 5n - 2. Find the 12th term.
- 22nd May 2025Complete the word equation for aerobic respiration: glucose + oxygen produces ___ + ___.
- 23rd May 2025State one way that painting a garden gate helps to prevent it from rusting.
- 24th May 2025Name the organs whose main job is to filter waste products out of the blood and produce urine.
- 25th May 2025Name the continuous process by which rocks are broken down, transported, deposited, and can eventually reform into new rock types.
- 26th May 2025Name the organ in the human body that produces insulin.
- 27th May 2025Which piece of apparatus should be used to measure the temperature of a liquid in an experiment?
- 28th May 2025In the same text, is the sentence "There is nothing more thrilling than floating silently above the countryside" a fact or an opinion?
- 29th May 2025Find and copy one word from 'the tide dragged its heavy silver chain across the sand' that gives the tide a human or animal-like quality.
- 30th May 2025Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The wind whispered through the willow'?
- 31st May 2025Add the missing apostrophe: The three teachers offices were being redecorated. (There are three teachers, each with their own office.)