Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
March 2020 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in March 2020, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in March 2020
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 2020On 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?
- 2nd March 2020A bag contains 12 red counters, 15 blue counters and 9 green counters only. A counter is picked at random. Work out the probability that it is blue, giving your answer as a decimal to 3 significant figures.
- 3rd March 2020Find 35% of 180.
- 4th March 2020Two joggers start together at a park gate. One returns to the gate every 18 minutes, the other every 24 minutes. After how many minutes will they next be at the gate together?
- 5th March 2020Two parallel lines are cut by a transversal. One of the angles formed is 63 degrees. State the size of the co-interior (allied) angle on the same side of the transversal, and explain why.
- 6th March 2020Simplify sqrt(45) + sqrt(20), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(5).
- 7th March 2020A chord subtends an angle of 76 degrees at the centre of a circle. Work out the angle it subtends at the circumference, on the major arc.
- 8th March 2020A journey of 84 km takes 1 hour 45 minutes. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 9th March 2020A car travels 210 km in 3.5 hours at a constant speed. Calculate how far it would travel in 5 hours at the same speed.
- 10th March 2020Explain why muscles must work in antagonistic pairs rather than alone.
- 11th March 2020State whether a solution with pH 3 is acidic, neutral, or alkaline.
- 12th March 2020A 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.
- 13th March 2020Name the salt formed when hydrochloric acid reacts with sodium hydroxide.
- 14th March 2020A pupil wants to measure the current flowing through a lamp in a circuit. Name the piece of apparatus she needs, and state whether it should be connected in series or in parallel with the lamp.
- 15th March 2020Name the force that pulls all objects with mass towards each other, keeping planets in orbit.
- 16th March 2020On a graph of temperature (y-axis) against time (x-axis), a straight line rises from (0 s, 20 degrees C) to (40 s, 60 degrees C). Calculate the gradient of this line, and state what it represents.
- 17th March 2020A writer describes the wind as "clawing at their jackets, determined to drag them off the mountain." Name the technique used here.
- 18th March 2020What do the letters PAF stand for when analysing a non-fiction text?
- 19th March 2020A newspaper report about a restored pier states: 'Engineers replaced over eleven thousand individual timbers during the two-year project.' What retrieval detail answers the question, how many timbers were replaced?
- 20th March 2020Give one example of a statistic a writer might use to persuade readers to use fewer plastic bags.
- 21st March 2020Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The wind howled, and the shutters rattled.'
- 22nd March 2020Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "The train arrived late."
- 23rd March 2020Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: fresh bread the baker called still warm from the oven
- 24th March 2020Find the median and the range of this data set: 7, 3, 9, 3, 12, 5.
- 25th March 2020In a right-angled triangle, the angle at A is 32 degrees and the adjacent side is 9 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse, to 1 decimal place.
- 26th March 2020A cylindrical tin has radius 4 cm and height 15 cm. Work out its volume, to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 27th March 2020Simplify the ratio 32:12.
- 28th March 2020A scatter graph plots the number of hours 10 students spent revising against their test scores. The points show that more hours of revision is generally associated with a higher test score, though not perfectly. Describe the type of correlation shown, and state one thing this correlation does not prove.
- 29th March 2020Simplify (3x^2 y^3)^2 divided by 9x^3 y^4, giving your answer as simply as possible.
- 30th March 2020Factorise fully 10x + 15.
- 31st March 2020Work out 2^5 - 3^3.