Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
August 2026 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in August 2026, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in August 2026
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2026Add the correct negative prefix to make this word mean 'not legal': legal.
- 2nd August 2026Choose the correct word: We had ___ time to finish the test than we expected. (less / fewer)
- 3rd August 2026What is the name for a poem written in stanzas of two lines each?
- 4th August 2026Explain why a poet might choose short, one-syllable words to describe the strike of a hammer, rather than longer, softer words.
- 5th August 2026A climber notices 'his fingers had gone from cold to strangely warm.' What might this detail suggest to an alert reader?
- 6th August 2026Add an apostrophe in the correct place: The three girls coats were left on the bus. (There is one coat per girl, and three girls in total.)
- 7th August 2026A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how a writer builds a sense of danger across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 8th August 2026Without a calculator, work out 15% of 180.
- 9th August 2026Work out 40% of 65.
- 10th August 2026A jacket costs 65 pounds. Work out the cost after a 20% discount.
- 11th August 2026p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 8, p = 9. Work out p when q = 6.
- 12th August 2026Write 0.35 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 13th August 2026Work out 5/6 of 90.
- 14th August 2026A rectangular field measuring 60 m by 40 m is to be divided into identical square plots, as large as possible, with no land left over. Work out the side length of each square plot, and the total number of plots.
- 15th August 2026A rectangle has length 9.2 cm and width 6.8 cm. Calculate its perimeter.
- 16th August 2026Write the next two terms of the sequence: 3, 7, 11, 15, ...
- 17th August 2026Put these structures in the order air passes through them when breathing in, starting from the windpipe: alveoli, bronchi, trachea, bronchioles.
- 18th August 2026A piece of magnesium ribbon is added to silver nitrate solution. State whether a displacement reaction would occur, and explain why.
- 19th August 2026Write the number 0.048706 to 2 significant figures.
- 20th August 2026State the name of the rock type formed when magma cools and solidifies underground.
- 21st August 2026State the pH value of a neutral solution, such as pure water.
- 22nd August 2026A student reads the volume of liquid in a measuring cylinder. The bottom of the meniscus lines up exactly halfway between the 22 cm^3 and 24 cm^3 graduation marks. State the volume of liquid.
- 23rd August 2026A non-fiction text about volcanoes uses the heading "How an Eruption Happens." What is the purpose of this heading?
- 24th August 2026What is the name for a poem written in three-line stanzas?
- 25th August 2026A poem has four-line stanzas with an ABAB rhyme scheme throughout. What effect might this regular structure have on the reader?
- 26th August 2026Insert a colon in the correct place: The kit list included the following items a torch, a compass and a whistle.
- 27th August 2026Correct the subject-verb agreement error: The team of swimmers were training every morning.
- 28th August 2026A poem compares the fox's eyes to 'two small, cold coins.' Name this technique.
- 29th August 2026A magazine article about volcanoes is broken into sections titled 'How volcanoes form', 'Famous eruptions' and 'Living near a volcano'. What are these called, and what is their purpose?
- 30th August 2026Write down the coordinates of the point 3 units to the left of the origin and 5 units up.
- 31st August 2026A bag contains 12 red counters, 15 blue counters and 9 green counters only. A counter is picked at random. Work out the probability that it is blue, giving your answer as a decimal to 3 significant figures.