Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
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.
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.
- 1st March 2019What is the name for a poem written in stanzas of two lines each?
- 2nd March 2019Explain why a poet might choose short, one-syllable words to describe the strike of a hammer, rather than longer, softer words.
- 3rd March 2019A climber notices 'his fingers had gone from cold to strangely warm.' What might this detail suggest to an alert reader?
- 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.)
- 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?
- 6th March 2019A rectangle has length 9 cm and width 6 cm. Work out its area and its perimeter.
- 7th March 2019Work out 40% of 65.
- 8th March 2019A jacket costs 65 pounds. Work out the cost after a 20% discount.
- 9th March 2019p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 8, p = 9. Work out p when q = 6.
- 10th March 2019Write 0.35 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 11th March 2019Work out 5/6 of 90.
- 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.
- 13th March 2019A rectangle has length 9.2 cm and width 6.8 cm. Calculate its perimeter.
- 14th March 2019Write the next two terms of the sequence: 3, 7, 11, 15, ...
- 15th March 2019State one way the alveoli are adapted for efficient gas exchange.
- 16th March 2019Explain why attaching a block of zinc to the hull of a steel ship helps to protect the ship from rusting.
- 17th March 2019Write the number 0.048706 to 2 significant figures.
- 18th March 2019State the name of the rock type formed when magma cools and solidifies underground.
- 19th March 2019Name the gas that makes up approximately 78% of the Earth's atmosphere.
- 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.
- 21st March 2019A non-fiction text about volcanoes uses the heading "How an Eruption Happens." What is the purpose of this heading?
- 22nd March 2019What is the name for a poem written in three-line stanzas?
- 23rd March 2019A poem has four-line stanzas with an ABAB rhyme scheme throughout. What effect might this regular structure have on the reader?
- 24th March 2019Insert a colon in the correct place: The kit list included the following items a torch, a compass and a whistle.
- 25th March 2019Correct the subject-verb agreement error: The team of swimmers were training every morning.
- 26th March 2019A poem compares the fox's eyes to 'two small, cold coins.' Name this technique.
- 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?
- 28th March 2019Write down the coordinates of the point 3 units to the left of the origin and 5 units up.
- 29th March 2019The nth term of a sequence is 5n - 2. Work out the 15th term.
- 30th March 2019Write 3/5 as a decimal.
- 31st March 20193/4 of a number is 54. Work out 5/6 of the same number.