Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
March 1997 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every sheet in March 1997
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 1997Write 0.4 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 2nd March 1997Write 5/8 as a decimal.
- 3rd March 1997Work out 7 x 9 - 4 x 5.
- 4th March 1997Name the food group that provides the body with the most energy per gram.
- 5th March 1997State the property used to arrange the elements in order in the modern periodic table.
- 6th March 1997Put these bodies in order of their distance from the Sun, starting with the closest: Mars, Mercury, Earth, Venus.
- 7th March 1997State whether elements in the same group of the periodic table have similar or very different chemical properties.
- 8th March 1997Calculate the mean of these three repeat readings of a force: 4.2 N, 4.6 N, 4.4 N.
- 9th March 1997A 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.
- 10th March 1997Which word means the same as 'ancient' in a sentence describing an old, crumbling castle: 'timeworn', 'modern', 'spacious' or 'lively'?
- 11th March 1997Choose the correct word to complete the sentence: Regular ___ at the piano will improve your technique. (practice / practise)
- 12th March 1997Identify and correct the pronoun error: 'The dog wagged their tail happily.'
- 13th March 1997A poem compares old age to 'a candle guttering low, still giving light.' Name this technique.
- 14th March 1997Which two poetic techniques appear in the line 'The fire hissed and spat its sparks'?
- 15th March 1997Find and copy one word from 'the mist swallowed the path ahead of him' that gives the mist a human or animal-like quality.
- 16th March 1997This sentence contains a comma splice: The rain started early, we cancelled the picnic. Correct it in one way.
- 17th March 1997A 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.
- 18th March 1997The probability that a spinner lands on red is 0.35. Work out the probability that it does not land on red.
- 19th March 1997Find 1/3 of 96.
- 20th March 1997Work out -12 + 4 x 3.
- 21st March 1997Solve x^2 - 2x - 24 = 0.
- 22nd March 1997Work out 207 divided by 9, showing your written method.
- 23rd March 1997Work out 143 divided by 11.
- 24th March 1997A 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?
- 25th March 1997A right-angled triangle has hypotenuse 17 cm and one leg of 8 cm. Calculate the length of the other leg.
- 26th March 1997Using the formula v = u + at, find v when u = 5, a = 3 and t = 4.
- 27th March 1997Complete the word equation for aerobic respiration: glucose + oxygen produces ___ + ___.
- 28th March 1997State one way that painting a garden gate helps to prevent it from rusting.
- 29th March 1997A pupil rubs a plastic rod with a cloth, giving the rod a negative electric charge. She then holds the rod near small pieces of paper on a table. State what she would observe, and explain why, in terms of electric charge.
- 30th March 1997In the food chain grass, rabbit, fox, where grass is eaten by rabbits and rabbits are eaten by foxes, name the organism that is the producer.
- 31st March 1997Name the organ in the human body that produces insulin.