Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
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.
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.
- 1st March 2015A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 9 cm and 40 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 2nd March 2015A jacket costs 64 pounds. It is reduced by 15% in a sale. Work out the sale price.
- 3rd March 2015A jug holds 1.8 litres. Work out how many millilitres this is.
- 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?
- 5th March 2015A triangle has a base of 14 cm and a perpendicular height of 5 cm. Calculate its area.
- 6th March 2015Rearrange the formula P = 2l + 2w to make w the subject.
- 7th March 2015Name the enzyme that digests starch, and state the product it is broken down into.
- 8th March 2015Name the gas released when fossil fuels are burned that is the main cause of the enhanced greenhouse effect.
- 9th March 2015Define the terms 'solute' and 'solvent'.
- 10th March 2015Name the force that causes objects to fall towards the ground when dropped.
- 11th March 2015Name the force that opposes the motion of an object moving through air.
- 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.
- 13th March 2015Which word means the same as "ascend" in a sentence about a balloon rising into the sky: "climb", "sink", "hover" or "spin"?
- 14th March 2015Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The waves whispered along the shingle shore'?
- 15th March 2015What is the name for a poem written without a regular rhyme scheme or fixed rhythm?
- 16th March 2015Choose the correct homophone: You should always ___ your times tables before a test. (practice / practise)
- 17th March 2015Choose the correct word: ___ leaving their bags by the door. (Their / There / They're)
- 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.
- 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?
- 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?
- 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.)
- 22nd March 2015Work out 3/4 + 1/6, giving your answer as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 23rd March 2015Two numbers are in the ratio 4 : 7. Their sum is 66. Work out the difference between the two numbers.
- 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.
- 25th March 2015Solve x^2 = 7x - 12.
- 26th March 2015Solve x^2 + 3x - 18 = 0.
- 27th March 2015Find 3^3 + sqrt(64).
- 28th March 2015120 pounds is shared between Leo and Maya in the ratio 3:5. Work out how much Maya receives.
- 29th March 2015State the name of the structure that allows oxygen and nutrients to pass from a mother's blood to her developing foetus.
- 30th March 2015Name the salt produced when zinc reacts with sulfuric acid.
- 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.