Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
March 1971 5-a-day
Every sheet in March 1971
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 1971Work out 12 x 7.
- 2nd March 1971Work out 7 x 8 + 6 x 3.
- 3rd March 1971Without a calculator, work out 45% of 160.
- 4th March 1971Ade and Bo share 56 sweets in the ratio 3:4. How many sweets does Bo receive?
- 5th March 1971108 pounds is shared between Amir and Bea in the ratio 4:5.
- 6th March 1971Write 0.4 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 7th March 1971Write 5/8 as a decimal.
- 8th March 1971Work out 7 x 9 - 4 x 5.
- 9th March 1971Name the food group that provides the body with the most energy per gram.
- 10th March 1971State the property used to arrange the elements in order in the modern periodic table.
- 11th March 1971A ray of light travels from air into a glass block. State whether the ray bends towards the normal or away from the normal as it enters the glass.
- 12th March 1971Write the word equation for photosynthesis.
- 13th March 1971Calculate the mean of these three repeat readings of a force: 4.2 N, 4.6 N, 4.4 N.
- 14th March 1971A circuit has a total resistance of 12 ohm and a current of 0.5 A flowing through it. Use V = I x R to calculate the voltage across the circuit.
- 15th March 1971Which word means the same as 'ancient' in a sentence describing an old, crumbling castle: 'timeworn', 'modern', 'spacious' or 'lively'?
- 16th March 1971Choose the correct word to complete the sentence: Regular ___ at the piano will improve your technique. (practice / practise)
- 17th March 1971Identify and correct the pronoun error: 'The dog wagged their tail happily.'
- 18th March 1971A poem compares old age to 'a candle guttering low, still giving light.' Name this technique.
- 19th March 1971Which two poetic techniques appear in the line 'The fire hissed and spat its sparks'?
- 20th March 1971Find and copy one word from 'the mist swallowed the path ahead of him' that gives the mist a human or animal-like quality.
- 21st March 1971Find and correct the tense error in this sentence: Yesterday, Priya walks to school and meets her friend Tom.
- 22nd March 1971A diver signals "all clear" with a steady hand, but his eyes keep darting towards the wreck's dark entrance. Explain what the contrast between his signal and his eyes suggests.
- 23rd March 1971The probability that a spinner lands on red is 0.35. Work out the probability that it does not land on red.
- 24th March 1971Find 1/3 of 96.
- 25th March 1971Work out -12 + 4 x 3.
- 26th March 1971Solve x^2 - 2x - 24 = 0.
- 27th March 1971Work out 207 divided by 9, showing your written method.
- 28th March 1971Work out 143 divided by 11.
- 29th March 1971A cube with side length 4 cm is built from 64 unit cubes, each 1 cm x 1 cm x 1 cm. The outside of the large cube is painted red, then it is taken apart into the 64 unit cubes again. How many of the unit cubes have exactly two faces painted red?
- 30th March 1971A right-angled triangle has hypotenuse 17 cm and one leg of 8 cm. Calculate the length of the other leg.
- 31st March 1971The first three terms of the triangular numbers are 1, 3, 6. If the pattern continues in the same way, what is the next term after 6?