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

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

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October 2025

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 7-8

Every sheet in October 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 October 2025A chord subtends an angle of 76 degrees at the centre of a circle. Work out the angle it subtends at the circumference, on the major arc.
  2. 2nd October 2025A journey of 84 km takes 1 hour 45 minutes. Work out the average speed in km/h.
  3. 3rd October 2025A car travels 210 km in 3.5 hours at a constant speed. Calculate how far it would travel in 5 hours at the same speed.
  4. 4th October 2025Name the joint type found in the hip, and state one other place in the body where this same joint type is found.
  5. 5th October 2025Complete the word equation: hydrochloric acid + sodium hydroxide produces ___ + ___.
  6. 6th October 2025A student doubles the frequency of a wave while keeping its speed the same. State what happens to the wavelength.
  7. 7th October 2025Two identical bulbs are each connected on their own to an identical battery. State how the brightness of a bulb connected on its own compares with an identical bulb connected in series with a second bulb to the same type of battery.
  8. 8th October 2025State how long it takes, approximately, for the Moon to orbit the Earth once.
  9. 9th October 2025State whether an acid has a pH value above or below 7.
  10. 10th October 2025A hazard symbol shows a skull and crossbones on an orange background. State what hazard this represents.
  11. 11th October 2025A writer describes the wind as "clawing at their jackets, determined to drag them off the mountain." Name the technique used here.
  12. 12th October 2025What do the letters PAF stand for when analysing a non-fiction text?
  13. 13th October 2025A newspaper report about a restored pier states: 'Engineers replaced over eleven thousand individual timbers during the two-year project.' What retrieval detail answers the question, how many timbers were replaced?
  14. 14th October 2025Give one example of a statistic a writer might use to persuade readers to use fewer plastic bags.
  15. 15th October 2025Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The wind howled, and the shutters rattled.'
  16. 16th October 2025Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "The train arrived late."
  17. 17th October 2025Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: fresh bread the baker called still warm from the oven
  18. 18th October 2025Two coins are flipped at the same time. List all the possible outcomes, and find the probability of getting exactly one head.
  19. 19th October 2025In a right-angled triangle, the angle at A is 32 degrees and the adjacent side is 9 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse, to 1 decimal place.
  20. 20th October 2025A cylindrical tin has radius 4 cm and height 15 cm. Work out its volume, to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
  21. 21st October 2025Simplify the ratio 32:12.
  22. 22nd October 2025A class recorded how many books each of 25 students read in a month: 5 students read 0-2 books, 12 students read 3-5 books, and 8 students read 6-8 books. Using midpoints 1, 4 and 7, estimate the mean number of books read.
  23. 23rd October 2025Prove that the sum of any three consecutive integers is always a multiple of 3.
  24. 24th October 2025Factorise fully 10x + 15.
  25. 25th October 2025Work out 2^5 - 3^3.
  26. 26th October 2025A 750 gram box of cereal costs 2.40 pounds, and a 500 gram box of the same cereal costs 1.70 pounds. Which box offers better value for money? Show your working.
  27. 27th October 2025In pea plants, the allele for tall (T) is dominant over the allele for short (t). State the possible genotype(s) of a tall pea plant.
  28. 28th October 2025State two factors, other than using a catalyst, that increase the rate of a reaction between a solid and a solution.
  29. 29th October 2025State whether solar power is a renewable or a non-renewable energy resource.
  30. 30th October 2025A book rests on a table and does not move. Name the force from the table that balances the book's weight.
  31. 31st October 2025Name the two products of photosynthesis.