Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
January 2026 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in January 2026, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in January 2026
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2026State the order of rotational symmetry and the number of lines of symmetry of a regular pentagon.
- 2nd January 2026A pattern of dots grows so that pattern 1 has 4 dots, pattern 2 has 7 dots, and pattern 3 has 10 dots. How many dots will pattern 6 have?
- 3rd January 2026Name the enzyme that digests starch, and state the product it is broken down into.
- 4th January 2026Name the gas released when fossil fuels are burned that is the main cause of the enhanced greenhouse effect.
- 5th January 2026Explain how a person is able to see a book resting on a table in a well-lit room, in terms of light rays.
- 6th January 2026Explain one way in which a polar bear's thick white fur helps it survive in the Arctic.
- 7th January 2026Name the force that opposes the motion of an object moving through air.
- 8th January 2026Amara is investigating how the mass of a paper cone affects how long it takes to fall from a fixed height. State the independent variable and the dependent variable in this investigation.
- 9th January 2026In a factual text, is the sentence "Hot air balloons were first flown in France in 1783" a fact or an opinion?
- 10th January 2026A poem repeats the phrase 'and still it climbed' at the end of every stanza. What is this technique called, and what might its effect be?
- 11th January 2026Find and copy one word from the phrase 'the old clock ticked its patient rhythm' that gives the clock a human quality.
- 12th January 2026Which punctuation mark correctly joins these two sentences without adding a joining word: 'The coach was late the pupils waited in the hall.'?
- 13th January 2026Choose the correct word: I'm not sure ___ my umbrella is. (where / were / we're)
- 14th January 2026A poem is written in a single, unbroken stanza with no rhyme. What effect might this create?
- 15th January 2026A newspaper report about a school's new library states: 'The library, funded entirely by a single anonymous donation, opened its doors last Tuesday.' What retrieval detail answers the question, how was the library funded?
- 16th January 2026A straight line passes through (0, 5) and has a gradient of -2. Write down its equation.
- 17th January 2026A cylindrical water butt has a radius of 35 cm and a height of 120 cm. Work out its volume, giving your answer in cm^3 to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 18th January 2026Write 0.72 as a percentage.
- 19th January 2026Two numbers are in the ratio 4 : 7. Their sum is 66. Work out the difference between the two numbers.
- 20th January 2026A shape is made from a rectangle measuring 12 cm by 8 cm, with a right-angled triangle of base 6 cm and height 8 cm removed from one corner. Work out the area of the remaining shape.
- 21st January 2026A chord divides a circle so that the angle at the centre is 130 degrees. Work out the angle at the circumference subtended by the same chord, on the major arc.
- 22nd January 2026Factorise 2x^2 + 7x + 3.
- 23rd January 2026A recipe uses 3 eggs for every 240 g of flour. Work out how many grams of flour are needed for 7 eggs, at the same ratio.
- 24th January 2026Work out 5 + 4 x 3 - 2.
- 25th January 2026State the name of the structure that allows oxygen and nutrients to pass from a mother's blood to her developing foetus.
- 26th January 2026Name the salt produced when zinc reacts with sulfuric acid.
- 27th January 2026In a series circuit, an ammeter placed before a bulb reads 0.6 A. State the current a second ammeter, placed elsewhere in the same series circuit, would read.
- 28th January 2026Name the enzyme, found in saliva, that begins the digestion of starch in the mouth.
- 29th January 2026State the standard unit used for density in physics and chemistry.
- 30th January 2026Name the type of teeth used mainly for cutting food.
- 31st January 2026State why it is good practice to run a quick preliminary (trial) experiment before starting the main investigation.