Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
March 2006 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in March 2006, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in March 2006
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 2006Add the correct negative prefix to make this word mean 'not legal': legal.
- 2nd March 2006Choose the correct word: We had ___ time to finish the test than we expected. (less / fewer)
- 3rd March 2006What is the name for a poem written in stanzas of two lines each?
- 4th March 2006Explain why a poet might choose short, one-syllable words to describe the strike of a hammer, rather than longer, softer words.
- 5th March 2006A climber notices 'his fingers had gone from cold to strangely warm.' What might this detail suggest to an alert reader?
- 6th March 2006Choose the correct homophone to complete the sentence: The dog wagged ___ tail happily. (its / it's)
- 7th March 2006A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how a writer builds a sense of danger across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 8th March 2006A rectangle has length 9 cm and width 6 cm. Work out its area and its perimeter.
- 9th March 2006Work out 40% of 65.
- 10th March 2006A jacket costs 65 pounds. Work out the cost after a 20% discount.
- 11th March 2006p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 8, p = 9. Work out p when q = 6.
- 12th March 2006Write 0.35 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 13th March 2006Work out 5/6 of 90.
- 14th March 2006A floor is tiled with a repeating pattern of identical regular hexagonal tiles, with no gaps or overlaps. State the size of each interior angle of a regular hexagon, and explain why regular hexagons can tile a flat floor exactly.
- 15th March 2006A rectangle has length 9.2 cm and width 6.8 cm. Calculate its perimeter.
- 16th March 2006A pattern of dots grows so that pattern 1 has 4 dots, pattern 2 has 7 dots, and pattern 3 has 10 dots. How many dots will pattern 6 have?
- 17th March 2006State one way the alveoli are adapted for efficient gas exchange.
- 18th March 2006Explain why attaching a block of zinc to the hull of a steel ship helps to protect the ship from rusting.
- 19th March 2006Explain how a person is able to see a book resting on a table in a well-lit room, in terms of light rays.
- 20th March 2006Explain one way in which a polar bear's thick white fur helps it survive in the Arctic.
- 21st March 2006Name the gas that makes up approximately 78% of the Earth's atmosphere.
- 22nd March 2006A student reads the volume of liquid in a measuring cylinder. The bottom of the meniscus lines up exactly halfway between the 22 cm^3 and 24 cm^3 graduation marks. State the volume of liquid.
- 23rd March 2006A non-fiction text about volcanoes uses the heading "How an Eruption Happens." What is the purpose of this heading?
- 24th March 2006What is the name for a poem written in three-line stanzas?
- 25th March 2006A poem has four-line stanzas with an ABAB rhyme scheme throughout. What effect might this regular structure have on the reader?
- 26th March 2006Insert a colon in the correct place: The kit list included the following items a torch, a compass and a whistle.
- 27th March 2006Correct the subject-verb agreement error: The team of swimmers were training every morning.
- 28th March 2006A poem compares the fox's eyes to 'two small, cold coins.' Name this technique.
- 29th March 2006A newspaper report about a school's new library states: 'The library, funded entirely by a single anonymous donation, opened its doors last Tuesday.' What retrieval detail answers the question, how was the library funded?
- 30th March 2006A straight line passes through (0, 5) and has a gradient of -2. Write down its equation.
- 31st March 2006The nth term of a sequence is 5n - 2. Work out the 15th term.