Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
March 2002 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in March 2002, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in March 2002
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 2002Simplify the ratio 45:30.
- 2nd March 2002Write 5:20 as a ratio in its simplest form.
- 3rd March 2002A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 9 cm and 40 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 4th March 2002A jacket costs 64 pounds. It is reduced by 15% in a sale. Work out the sale price.
- 5th March 2002A jug holds 1.8 litres. Work out how many millilitres this is.
- 6th March 2002In a class of 30 pupils, 18 play football, 14 play tennis, and 7 play both football and tennis. How many pupils play neither football nor tennis?
- 7th March 2002A triangle has a base of 14 cm and a perpendicular height of 5 cm. Calculate its area.
- 8th March 2002Using the formula v = u + at, find v when u = 5, a = 3 and t = 4.
- 9th March 2002Name the enzyme that digests starch, and state the product it is broken down into.
- 10th March 2002Name the gas released when fossil fuels are burned that is the main cause of the enhanced greenhouse effect.
- 11th March 2002A 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.
- 12th March 2002In 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.
- 13th March 2002Name the force that opposes the motion of an object moving through air.
- 14th March 2002A student measures the length of a metal rod five times: 62.1 cm, 62.4 cm, 62.0 cm, 62.5 cm, 62.2 cm. Calculate the mean length of the rod.
- 15th March 2002Which word means the same as "ascend" in a sentence about a balloon rising into the sky: "climb", "sink", "hover" or "spin"?
- 16th March 2002Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The waves whispered along the shingle shore'?
- 17th March 2002What is the name for a poem written without a regular rhyme scheme or fixed rhythm?
- 18th March 2002Choose the correct homophone: You should always ___ your times tables before a test. (practice / practise)
- 19th March 2002Choose the correct word: ___ leaving their bags by the door. (Their / There / They're)
- 20th March 2002Find and copy one word from 'the fox paused, listening to the city's held breath' that gives the city a human quality.
- 21st March 2002Give one feature, other than headings, that a factual magazine article might use to help organise information for the reader.
- 22nd March 2002Find the midpoint of the line segment joining (-4, 2) and (6, -8).
- 23rd March 2002A cylindrical water butt has a radius of 35 cm and a height of 120 cm. Work out its volume, giving your answer in cm^3 to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 24th March 2002Work out 3/4 + 1/6, giving your answer as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 25th March 2002Two numbers are in the ratio 4 : 7. Their sum is 66. Work out the difference between the two numbers.
- 26th March 2002A shape is made from a rectangle measuring 12 cm by 8 cm, with a right-angled triangle of base 6 cm and height 8 cm removed from one corner. Work out the area of the remaining shape.
- 27th March 2002Solve x^2 = 7x - 12.
- 28th March 2002Solve x^2 + 3x - 18 = 0.
- 29th March 2002Find 3^3 + sqrt(64).
- 30th March 2002120 pounds is shared between Leo and Maya in the ratio 3:5. Work out how much Maya receives.
- 31st March 2002State the name of the structure that allows oxygen and nutrients to pass from a mother's blood to her developing foetus.