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April 2026 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day

Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in April 2026, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.

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April 2026

30 sheets · 150 questions · Years 7-8

Every sheet in April 2026

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st April 2026A coat costs 80 pounds. It is reduced by 35% in a sale. Work out the sale price.
  2. 2nd April 2026Work out 15% of 60.
  3. 3rd April 2026In the food chain 'grass, rabbit, fox', name the primary consumer.
  4. 4th April 2026State one physical property that distinguishes a typical non-metal from a typical metal.
  5. 5th April 2026State whether the Earth's day (one full rotation on its axis) or the Earth's year (one full orbit of the Sun) takes longer.
  6. 6th April 2026A sound wave has a high frequency. State whether this means it has a high pitch or a low pitch.
  7. 7th April 2026State one function of the human skeleton, other than support.
  8. 8th April 2026Name the enzyme found in saliva that begins the digestion of starch in the mouth.
  9. 9th April 2026A question asks you to 'summarise the passage in your own words.' What must you avoid doing when answering it?
  10. 10th April 2026Is the relative clause in this sentence defining or non-defining, and should it have commas: 'The teacher who marked our essays gave detailed feedback' (assume there are several teachers)?
  11. 11th April 2026Which sentence is correct if you mean you carried your umbrella with you: 'I brought my umbrella yesterday' or 'I bought my umbrella yesterday'?
  12. 12th April 2026Find and copy one word from 'the wind stripped the last brave leaves from the oak' that suggests the leaves were trying to resist the wind.
  13. 13th April 2026A poem compares old age to 'a coat grown heavy with wear.' Name this technique.
  14. 14th April 2026A question worth 4 marks asks you to explain the effect of a writer's description. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
  15. 15th April 2026Which sentence uses a semicolon correctly? A) I like tennis; and swimming. B) I like tennis; my sister prefers swimming.
  16. 16th April 2026In an extract, a diver "checked her air gauge twice in under a minute." What does this suggest about how she is feeling?
  17. 17th April 2026A cinema charges 6.50 pounds for an adult ticket and 4.20 pounds for a child ticket. A family buys tickets for 2 adults and 3 children. Work out the total cost, without using a calculator.
  18. 18th April 2026Simplify the ratio 45:30.
  19. 19th April 2026Write 5:20 as a ratio in its simplest form.
  20. 20th April 2026A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 9 cm and 40 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
  21. 21st April 2026A jacket costs 64 pounds. It is reduced by 15% in a sale. Work out the sale price.
  22. 22nd April 2026A jug holds 1.8 litres. Work out how many millilitres this is.
  23. 23rd April 2026A dice has its six faces numbered 1 to 6, arranged so opposite faces always add up to 7. The face showing 2 is on top, and the face showing 3 is facing you. Work out which number is on the bottom face, and which number is on the face directly opposite the one facing you.
  24. 24th April 2026A triangle has a base of 14 cm and a perpendicular height of 5 cm. Calculate its area.
  25. 25th April 2026Write the first four terms of the sequence with nth term 2n^2.
  26. 26th April 2026State one way bile helps with the digestion of fats.
  27. 27th April 2026In the reactivity series, state which is more reactive: zinc or copper.
  28. 28th April 2026A pupil measures a length as 250 mm. State this length in metres.
  29. 29th April 2026State how many natural moons orbit the Earth.
  30. 30th April 2026Write the word equation for photosynthesis.