Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
March 2014 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in March 2014, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in March 2014
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 2014A triangular prism has a cross-sectional area of 15 cm^2 and a length of 12 cm. Calculate its volume.
- 2nd March 2014Work out -4 - 7.
- 3rd March 2014Find the highest common factor of 24 and 36.
- 4th March 2014Simplify 6x + 4 - 2x - 9.
- 5th March 2014A basket contains 15 lemons and 25 limes. Write the ratio of lemons to limes in its simplest form.
- 6th March 2014Calculate 56 + 29.
- 7th March 2014Work out 20 - 3 x 4.
- 8th March 2014A number is tripled and then 5 is added, giving 32. Form an equation and find the number.
- 9th March 2014Simplify the ratio 18:24 to its simplest form.
- 10th March 2014Name the green pigment, found in chloroplasts, that absorbs light energy for photosynthesis.
- 11th March 2014Name the group of the periodic table that contains elements which are almost completely unreactive because their outer electron shell is full.
- 12th March 2014State the law of reflection.
- 13th March 2014A 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).
- 14th March 2014Name the blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart.
- 15th March 2014Name the small intestine's main job in the digestive system.
- 16th March 2014In an extract, a character 'chewed his lip and stared at his shoes.' What does this suggest about the character's feelings?
- 17th March 2014Add a colon to this sentence in the correct place: The expedition needed three things warm clothing enough food and a reliable map.
- 18th March 2014Choose the correct word: There were ___ people at the concert than last year. (less / fewer)
- 19th March 2014Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The branches creaked and clawed at the window'?
- 20th March 2014Find and copy one word from 'the anvil's patient, unmoving weight' that gives the anvil a human quality.
- 21st March 2014Which word class is 'desperately' in 'He desperately searched for a handhold'?
- 22nd March 2014Add an apostrophe in the correct place: The three girls coats were left on the bus. (There is one coat per girl, and three girls in total.)
- 23rd March 2014A question asks you to "find and copy one phrase" meaning "completely dark." Which of these fits: "pitch black", "faintly lit", "clear blue" or "softly glowing"?
- 24th March 2014Simplify 5x + 3y - 2x + 7y.
- 25th March 2014Convert 2 hours 15 minutes into minutes.
- 26th March 2014Find 2/9 of 63.
- 27th March 2014Write 5.4 x 10^4 as an ordinary number.
- 28th March 2014A recipe needs 250 g of flour to make 8 muffins. Work out how much flour is needed to make 20 muffins at the same recipe strength.
- 29th March 2014Write 0.72 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 30th March 2014At a small maths club meeting, every one of the 8 members shakes hands with every other member exactly once. Work out the total number of handshakes.
- 31st March 2014A cuboid has dimensions 6 cm by 4 cm by 3 cm. Calculate its volume.