Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
March 2011 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in March 2011, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in March 2011
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 2011Explain how a person is able to see a book resting on a table in a well-lit room, in terms of light rays.
- 2nd March 2011Explain one way in which a polar bear's thick white fur helps it survive in the Arctic.
- 3rd March 2011Write the word equation for photosynthesis.
- 4th March 2011Amara 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.
- 5th March 2011In a factual text, is the sentence "Hot air balloons were first flown in France in 1783" a fact or an opinion?
- 6th March 2011A 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?
- 7th March 2011Find and copy one word from the phrase 'the old clock ticked its patient rhythm' that gives the clock a human quality.
- 8th March 2011Which punctuation mark correctly joins these two sentences without adding a joining word: 'The coach was late the pupils waited in the hall.'?
- 9th March 2011Choose the correct word: I'm not sure ___ my umbrella is. (where / were / we're)
- 10th March 2011A poem is written in a single, unbroken stanza with no rhyme. What effect might this create?
- 11th March 2011A 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?
- 12th March 2011A straight line passes through (0, 5) and has a gradient of -2. Write down its equation.
- 13th March 2011Find the midpoint of the line segment joining A(-3, 5) and B(7, -1).
- 14th March 2011Write 0.72 as a percentage.
- 15th March 2011A shop increases a price by 25%, then later reduces the new price by 20%. Work out the overall percentage change from the original price.
- 16th March 2011An 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.
- 17th March 2011A 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.
- 18th March 2011Factorise 2x^2 + 7x + 3.
- 19th March 2011A 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.
- 20th March 2011Work out 5 + 4 x 3 - 2.
- 21st March 2011Name the organelle in a plant cell that contains chlorophyll and is the site of photosynthesis.
- 22nd March 2011State the colour universal indicator turns in a strong alkali.
- 23rd March 2011In a series circuit, an ammeter placed before a bulb reads 0.6 A. State the current a second ammeter, placed elsewhere in the same series circuit, would read.
- 24th March 2011Name the enzyme, found in saliva, that begins the digestion of starch in the mouth.
- 25th March 2011State the standard unit used for density in physics and chemistry.
- 26th March 2011State the word equation for aerobic respiration.
- 27th March 2011State the name given to a value read from a graph beyond the range of the data that was actually measured.
- 28th March 2011A question asks you to "find and copy one word" meaning "extremely cold." Which of these fits: "freezing", "mild", "warm" or "humid"?
- 29th March 2011A 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?
- 30th March 2011You are asked to summarise a whole article in two sentences. What should you prioritise including?
- 31st March 2011Is the claim 'recycling is clearly the most important thing you can do for the planet' a fact or an opinion?