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

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

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July 2025

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 7-8

Every sheet in July 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 July 2025A drawer contains 4 black socks and 6 white socks only. Two socks are taken out at random, one after another, without replacement. Work out the probability that both socks are white.
  2. 2nd July 2025A two-digit number is 7 times the sum of its digits. The digit in the tens place is one more than the digit in the units place. Find the two-digit number.
  3. 3rd July 2025Expand 4(3x + 2).
  4. 4th July 2025Work out 12.6 divided by 0.3.
  5. 5th July 2025Find 35% of 160 pounds.
  6. 6th July 2025State one way a red blood cell is adapted to carry oxygen efficiently.
  7. 7th July 2025A reaction between magnesium ribbon and hydrochloric acid gives off heat, and the temperature of the acid rises from 20 degrees C to 35 degrees C. State whether this reaction is exothermic or endothermic, and explain how you know.
  8. 8th July 2025A runner covers 400 m in 50 seconds at a constant speed. Use speed = distance / time to calculate her speed.
  9. 9th July 2025Some endothermic reactions cause the temperature of their surroundings to fall. Explain, in terms of energy, why this happens.
  10. 10th July 2025State whether respiration in muscle cells during hard exercise, when oxygen supply cannot keep up with demand, is aerobic or anaerobic.
  11. 11th July 2025Name the layer of gases surrounding the Earth that contains the oxygen needed for respiration.
  12. 12th July 2025Choose the correct homophone to complete the sentence: The team celebrated ___ victory together. (their / there / they're)
  13. 13th July 2025In the sentence 'The old clock in the hallway ticked with the patience of a watchman,' which word gives the clock a human quality?
  14. 14th July 2025A character mutters "It's nothing" while quickly hiding a letter in his pocket. Explain what the contrast between his words and actions suggests.
  15. 15th July 2025Explain one way an ending can 'connect back' to the opening of a story.
  16. 16th July 2025Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: Although the fair had closed years ago, the carousel still turned.
  17. 17th July 2025Give one example of emotive language a speaker might use to persuade pupils that public speaking is worth the risk.
  18. 18th July 2025What is a rhetorical question, and why do persuasive writers use them?
  19. 19th July 2025Round 4826 to the nearest hundred.
  20. 20th July 2025In a right-angled triangle, the angle at A is 40 degrees and the side opposite A is 8 cm. Use trigonometry to find the length of the hypotenuse, giving your answer to 1 decimal place.
  21. 21st July 2025Without a calculator, work out 35% of 220.
  22. 22nd July 2025Solve x^2 + 4x - 21 = 0.
  23. 23rd July 2025A motorbike valued at 5,500 pounds depreciates by 18% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
  24. 24th July 2025Work out 4.7 x 3.6, giving your answer to 1 decimal place.
  25. 25th July 2025A car travels 189 miles using 7 gallons of fuel. Work out the miles per gallon.
  26. 26th July 2025A pair of trainers costs 45 pounds. The price increases by 20%. Work out the new price.
  27. 27th July 2025A bag contains 5 red counters and 7 blue counters. Two counters are taken from the bag at random, one after the other, without replacement. Find the probability that both counters are the same colour.
  28. 28th July 2025Put these organs in the order food passes through them during digestion: large intestine, mouth, stomach, small intestine, oesophagus.
  29. 29th July 2025A pupil finds the volume of an irregular stone using a measuring cylinder. The water level rises from 35 cm^3 to 52 cm^3 when the stone is added. The stone has a mass of 42.5 g. Calculate the density of the stone, giving your answer to 2 significant figures.
  30. 30th July 2025State whether the main force acting when a compass needle points north is a contact force or a non-contact force.
  31. 31st July 2025Name the process by which cells release energy from glucose using oxygen.