Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
March 2013 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in March 2013, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in March 2013
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 2013Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: The lights flickered, and the music started on its own.
- 2nd March 2013Name the technique used in this line: New voices. New ideas. New confidence.
- 3rd March 2013What is a rhetorical question, and why do persuasive writers use them?
- 4th March 2013Calculate the value of 7 + 2 x (6 - 3) x 2, showing your method.
- 5th March 2013A right-angled triangle has two shorter sides of length 9 cm and 12 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 6th March 2013A prize fund of 150 pounds is shared between two clubs in the ratio 2:3. Work out the larger share.
- 7th March 2013In a right-angled triangle, the angle at A is 50 degrees and the hypotenuse is 14 cm. Work out the length of the side opposite angle A, to 1 decimal place.
- 8th March 2013Find the midpoint of the line segment joining A(-5, -2) and B(9, 6).
- 9th March 2013A rectangle has an area of 84 cm^2 and a length of 9.6 cm. Work out its width, to 1 decimal place.
- 10th March 2013Decrease 350 pounds by 18%.
- 11th March 2013Work out 2/5 of 65.
- 12th March 2013Five pupils recorded the number of minutes they spent reading yesterday: 9, 13, 20, 11, 17. Find the mean number of minutes.
- 13th March 2013Name the organelle found in both plant and animal cells that is the site of aerobic respiration.
- 14th March 2013A block of wood has a mass of 60 g and a volume of 80 cm^3. Calculate its density.
- 15th March 2013A farmer weighing 900 N stands on the ground. Her boots have a total sole area of 0.03 m^2. Use pressure = force / area to calculate the pressure she exerts on the ground, giving your answer in Pa.
- 16th March 2013Name the process by which cells release energy from glucose using oxygen.
- 17th March 2013Name one renewable energy resource.
- 18th March 2013A pupil doubles the concentration of acid used in a reaction with a metal, keeping everything else the same. State what happens to the rate of the reaction.
- 19th March 2013A pupil's teacher suggests using a data logger to measure temperature every second during an experiment, instead of a pupil reading a thermometer every minute. Suggest one advantage of using a data logger in this experiment.
- 20th March 2013Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "Although the handle was rusted solid, the door creaked open at last."
- 21st March 2013Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: hurry up whispered Kofi we havent got much time
- 22nd March 2013A question asks you to 'state one reason why the train was delayed, using evidence from the text.' What kind of answer is required?
- 23rd March 2013A diver notices 'a single brass buckle winking in the torchlight.' Which word suggests the buckle is briefly catching and reflecting the light?
- 24th March 2013In the phrase "silent, secret snow", which technique is being used?
- 25th March 2013What is a counter-argument, and why might a writer include one?
- 26th March 2013In the phrase "silent, snow-hushed streets", which technique is being used?
- 27th March 2013Calculate the area of a triangle with base 12 cm and height 9 cm.
- 28th March 2013A pack of 24 pencils costs 3.60 pounds. Work out the cost of one pencil.
- 29th March 2013Write 0.35 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 30th March 2013A parallelogram has base 12 cm and perpendicular height 5 cm. Work out its area.
- 31st March 20133 workers can paint a fence in 8 hours, working at the same constant rate. How long would it take 4 workers to paint the same fence?