Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
March 1998 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every sheet in March 1998
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 1998State one way bile helps with the digestion of fats.
- 2nd March 1998In the reactivity series, state which is more reactive: zinc or copper.
- 3rd March 1998Name the organs whose main job is to filter waste products out of the blood and produce urine.
- 4th March 1998Name the continuous process by which rocks are broken down, transported, deposited, and can eventually reform into new rock types.
- 5th March 1998Write the word equation for photosynthesis.
- 6th March 1998Amara 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.
- 7th March 1998In a factual text, is the sentence "Hot air balloons were first flown in France in 1783" a fact or an opinion?
- 8th March 1998A 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?
- 9th March 1998Find and copy one word from the phrase 'the old clock ticked its patient rhythm' that gives the clock a human quality.
- 10th March 1998Which punctuation mark correctly joins these two sentences without adding a joining word: 'The coach was late the pupils waited in the hall.'?
- 11th March 1998Choose the correct word: I'm not sure ___ my umbrella is. (where / were / we're)
- 12th March 1998A poem is written in a single, unbroken stanza with no rhyme. What effect might this create?
- 13th March 1998You are asked to summarise a paragraph in one sentence. What is the biggest risk to avoid?
- 14th March 1998A conversion graph shows that 5 miles is equivalent to 8 kilometres. Using this scale, convert 20 miles to kilometres.
- 15th March 1998Find the midpoint of the line segment joining A(-3, 5) and B(7, -1).
- 16th March 1998Write 0.72 as a percentage.
- 17th March 1998A shop increases a price by 25%, then later reduces the new price by 20%. Work out the overall percentage change from the original price.
- 18th March 1998An 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.
- 19th March 1998A 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.
- 20th March 1998Factorise 2x^2 + 7x + 3.
- 21st March 1998A 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.
- 22nd March 1998Work out 5 + 4 x 3 - 2.
- 23rd March 1998Name the organelle in a plant cell that contains chlorophyll and is the site of photosynthesis.
- 24th March 1998State the colour universal indicator turns in a strong alkali.
- 25th March 1998Name the circuit component whose symbol is a circle with a cross inside it.
- 26th March 1998Name the process by which digested food molecules pass from the small intestine into the blood.
- 27th March 1998An old-style filament light bulb transfers 100 J of electrical energy. Of this, 20 J is transferred usefully as light, and the rest is wasted as heat. Calculate the energy wasted as heat.
- 28th March 1998State the word equation for aerobic respiration.
- 29th March 1998State the name given to a value read from a graph beyond the range of the data that was actually measured.
- 30th March 1998A question asks you to "find and copy one word" meaning "extremely cold." Which of these fits: "freezing", "mild", "warm" or "humid"?
- 31st March 1998A factual article about volcanic islands is broken into sections titled 'How islands form', 'Life on the slopes' and 'Living with the risk'. What are these called, and what is their purpose?