Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
March 2003 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in March 2003, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in March 2003
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 2003Factorise x^2 - 9x + 20.
- 2nd March 2003Expand and simplify (2x - 3)(x + 4).
- 3rd March 2003A car's value depreciates from 18,000 pounds to 14,400 pounds in one year. Work out the percentage decrease.
- 4th March 2003Work out 9 x 7.
- 5th March 2003State two functions of the human skeleton.
- 6th March 2003Describe the test for carbon dioxide gas, and state the positive result.
- 7th March 2003Name the circuit component whose symbol is a circle with a cross inside it.
- 8th March 2003Name the process by which digested food molecules pass from the small intestine into the blood.
- 9th March 2003An 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.
- 10th March 2003A pupil measures the resultant force on an object as 0 N even though several forces are acting on it. State the term used to describe forces in this situation.
- 11th March 2003State the name given to a value read from a graph that lies between two points that were actually measured.
- 12th March 2003Which word means the same as "exhausted" in a sentence describing tired climbers: "drained", "energetic", "cheerful" or "restless"?
- 13th March 2003A biography states that a person 'taught herself to read at six using her grandfather's newspapers, and published her first book by twenty.' What can a reader infer about this person's character from these facts?
- 14th March 2003A travel brochure and a science textbook both describe coral reefs. Which is more likely to use exaggerated, emotive language, and why?
- 15th March 2003A leaflet states 'You could help save a hundred bottles a year.' Which word directly addresses the reader?
- 16th March 2003Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The rain fell steadily.'
- 17th March 2003Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for "the suitcase on the platform."
- 18th March 2003Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "Crates of fruit lined the pavement."
- 19th March 2003Find the mean of these test scores: 14, 18, 12, 20, 16.
- 20th March 2003Solve x^2 - 5x + 6 = 0.
- 21st March 2003A survey asked 25 people how many books they read last month: 6 people read 0, 10 read 1, 6 read 2, 3 read 3. Work out the mean number of books read.
- 22nd March 2003Work out 60% of 45.
- 23rd March 2003A researcher wants to find the average pocket money received by pupils at a school, so she surveys only the pupils waiting outside the head teacher's office. Give one reason this is likely to produce a biased sample.
- 24th March 2003A triangle is inscribed in a circle so that one of its sides is a diameter of the circle. Explain, using a circle theorem, why the angle at the third vertex (opposite that side) must be 90 degrees.
- 25th March 2003Expand 4(3x + 2).
- 26th March 2003Work out 12.6 divided by 0.3.
- 27th March 2003Find 35% of 160 pounds.
- 28th March 2003On a microscope, the eyepiece lens has a magnification of x10 and the objective lens in use has a magnification of x40. Calculate the total magnification.
- 29th March 2003In the disappearing cross experiment, a student times how long it takes for a cross under the flask to disappear from view. Explain why a shorter time indicates a faster reaction.
- 30th March 2003A runner covers 400 m in 50 seconds at a constant speed. Use speed = distance / time to calculate her speed.
- 31st March 2003Some endothermic reactions cause the temperature of their surroundings to fall. Explain, in terms of energy, why this happens.