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March 2015 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day

Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in March 2015, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.

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March 2015

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 7-8

Every sheet in March 2015

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st March 2015A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 9 cm and 40 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
  2. 2nd March 2015A jacket costs 64 pounds. It is reduced by 15% in a sale. Work out the sale price.
  3. 3rd March 2015A jug holds 1.8 litres. Work out how many millilitres this is.
  4. 4th March 2015In a class of 30 pupils, 18 play football, 14 play tennis, and 7 play both football and tennis. How many pupils play neither football nor tennis?
  5. 5th March 2015A triangle has a base of 14 cm and a perpendicular height of 5 cm. Calculate its area.
  6. 6th March 2015Rearrange the formula P = 2l + 2w to make w the subject.
  7. 7th March 2015Name the enzyme that digests starch, and state the product it is broken down into.
  8. 8th March 2015Name the gas released when fossil fuels are burned that is the main cause of the enhanced greenhouse effect.
  9. 9th March 2015Define the terms 'solute' and 'solvent'.
  10. 10th March 2015Name the force that causes objects to fall towards the ground when dropped.
  11. 11th March 2015Name the force that opposes the motion of an object moving through air.
  12. 12th March 2015A student measures the length of a metal rod five times: 62.1 cm, 62.4 cm, 62.0 cm, 62.5 cm, 62.2 cm. Calculate the mean length of the rod.
  13. 13th March 2015Which word means the same as "ascend" in a sentence about a balloon rising into the sky: "climb", "sink", "hover" or "spin"?
  14. 14th March 2015Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The waves whispered along the shingle shore'?
  15. 15th March 2015What is the name for a poem written without a regular rhyme scheme or fixed rhythm?
  16. 16th March 2015Choose the correct homophone: You should always ___ your times tables before a test. (practice / practise)
  17. 17th March 2015Choose the correct word: ___ leaving their bags by the door. (Their / There / They're)
  18. 18th March 2015Find and copy one word from 'the fox paused, listening to the city's held breath' that gives the city a human quality.
  19. 19th March 2015A travel article is written for a general newspaper audience rather than for expert climbers. How might its vocabulary and level of detail differ from a specialist mountaineering magazine?
  20. 20th March 2015On a distance-time graph, a cyclist's journey is shown as a horizontal line for 15 minutes. What does this tell you about the cyclist during this time?
  21. 21st March 2015A cylindrical water butt has a radius of 35 cm and a height of 120 cm. Work out its volume, giving your answer in cm^3 to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
  22. 22nd March 2015Work out 3/4 + 1/6, giving your answer as a fraction in its simplest form.
  23. 23rd March 2015Two numbers are in the ratio 4 : 7. Their sum is 66. Work out the difference between the two numbers.
  24. 24th March 2015A shape is made from a rectangle measuring 12 cm by 8 cm, with a right-angled triangle of base 6 cm and height 8 cm removed from one corner. Work out the area of the remaining shape.
  25. 25th March 2015Solve x^2 = 7x - 12.
  26. 26th March 2015Solve x^2 + 3x - 18 = 0.
  27. 27th March 2015Find 3^3 + sqrt(64).
  28. 28th March 2015120 pounds is shared between Leo and Maya in the ratio 3:5. Work out how much Maya receives.
  29. 29th March 2015State the name of the structure that allows oxygen and nutrients to pass from a mother's blood to her developing foetus.
  30. 30th March 2015Name the salt produced when zinc reacts with sulfuric acid.
  31. 31st March 2015A torch bulb has a resistance of 15 ohms and a current of 0.2 A flows through it. Use V = I x R to calculate the voltage across the bulb.