Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
March 2009 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in March 2009, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in March 2009
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 2009A machine produces 480 items in a day that lasts 7.5 hours. Work out the number of items produced per hour.
- 2nd March 2009Work out 6^2 - sqrt(49).
- 3rd March 2009Write 0.6 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 4th March 2009Two fair coins are tossed together. Find the probability of getting at least one tail.
- 5th March 2009Which of the seven life processes describes an organism getting rid of waste products made inside its body?
- 6th March 2009State the name of the change of state when a solid changes directly into a liquid.
- 7th March 2009A trolley of mass 20 kg is pushed with a resultant force of 60 N. Use force = mass x acceleration to calculate its acceleration.
- 8th March 2009Name the process by which plants lose water vapour from their leaves through tiny pores called stomata.
- 9th March 2009Name the structure inside a plant cell where photosynthesis takes place.
- 10th March 2009A wave has a wavelength of 2 m and a frequency of 5 Hz. Use wave speed = frequency x wavelength to calculate its speed.
- 11th March 2009A pupil is choosing between two thermometers to measure a temperature change of about 5 degrees C: one has markings every 2 degrees C, and the other has markings every 0.2 degrees C. State which thermometer would give the more precise reading, and explain why.
- 12th March 2009Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for "the map in the drawer."
- 13th March 2009Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The fog rolled in from the sea.'
- 14th March 2009A character 'checked her watch for the third time in a minute and sighed.' What does this suggest about how she is feeling?
- 15th March 2009Which word class is 'cautiously' in the sentence 'She cautiously ran her glove along the rusted rail'?
- 16th March 2009A question asks you to "compare how the two poets present the sea." What is the best way to structure your answer?
- 17th March 2009Give one example of emotive language a writer might use to persuade pupils that reading is enjoyable rather than a chore.
- 18th March 2009In the line "Icicles hang like daggers from the eaves", which technique is used?
- 19th March 2009A triangular prism has a cross-sectional area of 15 cm^2 and a length of 12 cm. Calculate its volume.
- 20th March 2009Find 30% of 150.
- 21st March 2009Work out 13^2.
- 22nd March 2009Find 5/6 of 72.
- 23rd March 2009A recipe for 4 people uses 200g of butter. How much butter is needed for 10 people?
- 24th March 2009A tap fills a bucket at a constant rate of 3 litres every 2 minutes. Work out how many litres it fills in 10 minutes.
- 25th March 2009Calculate 74 - 38.
- 26th March 2009Work out -7 + 15.
- 27th March 2009A journey of 240 km takes 4 hours at a constant speed. Work out the speed in km/h.
- 28th March 2009Complete the word equation for photosynthesis: carbon dioxide + water produces ___ + ___.
- 29th March 2009Explain why a pencil, not a pen, must be used to draw the baseline on chromatography paper.
- 30th March 2009State the law of reflection.
- 31st March 2009A student shouts and hears an echo 0.6 s later off a distant wall. Given the speed of sound in air is 340 m/s, calculate the total distance travelled by the sound (there and back).