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March 2019 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day

Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in March 2019, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.

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March 2019

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 7-8

Every sheet in March 2019

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 2019What is the name for a poem written in stanzas of two lines each?
  2. 2nd March 2019Explain why a poet might choose short, one-syllable words to describe the strike of a hammer, rather than longer, softer words.
  3. 3rd March 2019A climber notices 'his fingers had gone from cold to strangely warm.' What might this detail suggest to an alert reader?
  4. 4th March 2019Add 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.)
  5. 5th March 2019A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how a writer builds a sense of danger across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
  6. 6th March 2019A rectangle has length 9 cm and width 6 cm. Work out its area and its perimeter.
  7. 7th March 2019Work out 40% of 65.
  8. 8th March 2019A jacket costs 65 pounds. Work out the cost after a 20% discount.
  9. 9th March 2019p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 8, p = 9. Work out p when q = 6.
  10. 10th March 2019Write 0.35 as a fraction in its simplest form.
  11. 11th March 2019Work out 5/6 of 90.
  12. 12th March 2019A floor is tiled with a repeating pattern of identical regular hexagonal tiles, with no gaps or overlaps. State the size of each interior angle of a regular hexagon, and explain why regular hexagons can tile a flat floor exactly.
  13. 13th March 2019A rectangle has length 9.2 cm and width 6.8 cm. Calculate its perimeter.
  14. 14th March 2019Write the next two terms of the sequence: 3, 7, 11, 15, ...
  15. 15th March 2019State one way the alveoli are adapted for efficient gas exchange.
  16. 16th March 2019Explain why attaching a block of zinc to the hull of a steel ship helps to protect the ship from rusting.
  17. 17th March 2019Write the number 0.048706 to 2 significant figures.
  18. 18th March 2019State the name of the rock type formed when magma cools and solidifies underground.
  19. 19th March 2019Name the gas that makes up approximately 78% of the Earth's atmosphere.
  20. 20th March 2019A student reads the volume of liquid in a measuring cylinder. The bottom of the meniscus lines up exactly halfway between the 22 cm^3 and 24 cm^3 graduation marks. State the volume of liquid.
  21. 21st March 2019A non-fiction text about volcanoes uses the heading "How an Eruption Happens." What is the purpose of this heading?
  22. 22nd March 2019What is the name for a poem written in three-line stanzas?
  23. 23rd March 2019A poem has four-line stanzas with an ABAB rhyme scheme throughout. What effect might this regular structure have on the reader?
  24. 24th March 2019Insert a colon in the correct place: The kit list included the following items a torch, a compass and a whistle.
  25. 25th March 2019Correct the subject-verb agreement error: The team of swimmers were training every morning.
  26. 26th March 2019A poem compares the fox's eyes to 'two small, cold coins.' Name this technique.
  27. 27th March 2019A magazine article about volcanoes is broken into sections titled 'How volcanoes form', 'Famous eruptions' and 'Living near a volcano'. What are these called, and what is their purpose?
  28. 28th March 2019Write down the coordinates of the point 3 units to the left of the origin and 5 units up.
  29. 29th March 2019The nth term of a sequence is 5n - 2. Work out the 15th term.
  30. 30th March 2019Write 3/5 as a decimal.
  31. 31st March 20193/4 of a number is 54. Work out 5/6 of the same number.