Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
March 1959 5-a-day
Every sheet in March 1959
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 1959Work out (4 + 3) x (9 - 5).
- 2nd March 1959y is directly proportional to x^2. When x = 4, y = 32. Work out y when x = 6.
- 3rd March 1959Write the ratio 18:24 in its simplest form.
- 4th March 1959Work out 8.4 x 6, using a written method.
- 5th March 1959A 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.
- 6th March 1959State the order of rotational symmetry and the number of lines of symmetry of a regular pentagon.
- 7th March 1959A 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?
- 8th March 1959State one way bile helps with the digestion of fats.
- 9th March 1959In the reactivity series, state which is more reactive: zinc or copper.
- 10th March 1959Explain how a person is able to see a book resting on a table in a well-lit room, in terms of light rays.
- 11th March 1959Explain one way in which a polar bear's thick white fur helps it survive in the Arctic.
- 12th March 1959Write the word equation for photosynthesis.
- 13th March 1959Amara 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.
- 14th March 1959In a factual text, is the sentence "Hot air balloons were first flown in France in 1783" a fact or an opinion?
- 15th March 1959A 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?
- 16th March 1959Find and copy one word from the phrase 'the old clock ticked its patient rhythm' that gives the clock a human quality.
- 17th March 1959Which punctuation mark correctly joins these two sentences without adding a joining word: 'The coach was late the pupils waited in the hall.'?
- 18th March 1959Choose the correct word: I'm not sure ___ my umbrella is. (where / were / we're)
- 19th March 1959A poem is written in a single, unbroken stanza with no rhyme. What effect might this create?
- 20th March 1959A 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?
- 21st March 1959A straight line passes through (0, 5) and has a gradient of -2. Write down its equation.
- 22nd March 1959Find the midpoint of the line segment joining A(-3, 5) and B(7, -1).
- 23rd March 1959Write 0.72 as a percentage.
- 24th March 1959A shop increases a price by 25%, then later reduces the new price by 20%. Work out the overall percentage change from the original price.
- 25th March 1959An 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.
- 26th March 1959A 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.
- 27th March 1959Factorise 2x^2 + 7x + 3.
- 28th March 1959A 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.
- 29th March 1959Work out 5 + 4 x 3 - 2.
- 30th March 1959Name the organelle in a plant cell that contains chlorophyll and is the site of photosynthesis.
- 31st March 1959State the colour universal indicator turns in a strong alkali.