Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
May 2026 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in May 2026, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in May 2026
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2026A student measures the length of a metal rod five times: 62.1 cm, 62.4 cm, 62.0 cm, 62.5 cm, 62.2 cm. Calculate the mean length of the rod.
- 2nd May 2026Which word means the same as "ascend" in a sentence about a balloon rising into the sky: "climb", "sink", "hover" or "spin"?
- 3rd May 2026Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The waves whispered along the shingle shore'?
- 4th May 2026What is the name for a poem written without a regular rhyme scheme or fixed rhythm?
- 5th May 2026Choose the correct homophone: You should always ___ your times tables before a test. (practice / practise)
- 6th May 2026Choose the correct word: ___ leaving their bags by the door. (Their / There / They're)
- 7th May 2026Find and copy one word from 'the fox paused, listening to the city's held breath' that gives the city a human quality.
- 8th May 2026In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The expedition team faced constant attrition - illness, injury and exhaustion wore down their numbers day by day.' What does 'attrition' mean here?
- 9th May 2026A train travels 90 km in 1.5 hours at a constant speed, shown as a straight line on a distance-time graph. Calculate the gradient of this line, and state what it represents.
- 10th May 2026Find the midpoint of the line segment joining A(-3, 5) and B(7, -1).
- 11th May 2026Work out 3/4 + 1/6, giving your answer as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 12th May 2026A shop increases a price by 25%, then later reduces the new price by 20%. Work out the overall percentage change from the original price.
- 13th May 2026An open-top fish tank, with no lid, is a cuboid with length 50 cm, width 30 cm and height 25 cm. Work out the total area of glass needed to make the tank.
- 14th May 2026Solve x^2 = 7x - 12.
- 15th May 2026Solve x^2 + 3x - 18 = 0.
- 16th May 2026Find 3^3 + sqrt(64).
- 17th May 2026120 pounds is shared between Leo and Maya in the ratio 3:5. Work out how much Maya receives.
- 18th May 2026Name the organelle in a plant cell that contains chlorophyll and is the site of photosynthesis.
- 19th May 2026State the colour universal indicator turns in a strong alkali.
- 20th May 2026A wave has a frequency of 50 Hz and a wavelength of 4 m. Use wave speed = frequency x wavelength to calculate its speed.
- 21st May 2026State the pH of a neutral solution such as pure water.
- 22nd May 2026State whether the Earth casting a shadow that blocks sunlight from reaching the Moon is called a solar eclipse or a lunar eclipse.
- 23rd May 2026State the word equation for aerobic respiration.
- 24th May 2026State the name given to a value read from a graph beyond the range of the data that was actually measured.
- 25th May 2026In an extract, a climber "kept checking the rope, tugging it twice before every step." What does this suggest about the climber?
- 26th May 2026In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The team faced constant setbacks - equipment failure, bad weather and dwindling supplies chipped away at morale.' What does 'dwindling' mean here?
- 27th May 2026A biography states that a scientist 'spent every evening after his factory shift teaching himself chemistry from borrowed textbooks.' What can a reader infer about this person from these facts?
- 28th May 2026An article opens with a short story about one seabird found tangled in plastic, before giving any wider statistics. What is this technique called?
- 29th May 2026Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: watch your step said the warden the path is icy
- 30th May 2026Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "Although the platform was crowded, Amara found a seat by the window."
- 31st May 2026Identify the fronted adverbial in this sentence: "Slowly, the shutters were raised one by one."