Daily Practice · GCSE
January 1955 5-a-day
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Every sheet in January 1955
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1955Which is more likely to create impact at the end of a tense paragraph: a long complex sentence or a short simple sentence?
- 2nd January 1955Identify the relative pronoun in: 'The book, which was on the table, belonged to my sister.'
- 3rd January 1955Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang.'
- 4th January 1955How many marks in Section B are for technical accuracy in spelling, punctuation and grammar?
- 5th January 1955Where does Victor first create and reject the Creature?
- 6th January 1955Name Jane's close friend at Lowood school, who dies of consumption/typhus.
- 7th January 1955Name three themes in Macbeth other than ambition, and give one moment in the play where each is most visible.
- 8th January 1955How does Austen use Mr Collins for satire?
- 9th January 1955Explain in one sentence why a single-word sentence such as 'Gone.' can be effective.
- 10th January 1955Is 'When the bell rang' a main clause or a subordinate clause?
- 11th January 1955Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang, and the students filed out.'
- 12th January 1955What should the structure question track across the whole extract?
- 13th January 1955Who is wrongly executed for the murder of Victor's brother William?
- 14th January 1955Why does Jane leave Thornfield Hall on what should have been her wedding day?
- 15th January 1955Explain why a thematic essay should not be organised character by character.
- 16th January 1955What changes Elizabeth's view of Darcy, and in what order?
- 17th January 1955Rewrite these two short sentences as one varied complex sentence: 'The rain fell. The streets flooded.'
- 18th January 1955Underline (state) the main clause: 'Because it was raining, the match was postponed.'
- 19th January 1955Rewrite 'It was raining. We stayed inside.' as one compound sentence.
- 20th January 1955How many sections does Paper 1 have?
- 21st January 1955True or false: Victor completes the female companion the Creature demands.
- 22nd January 1955Who mistreats Jane at Gateshead Hall before she is sent away to school?
- 23rd January 1955How does the natural world reflect the disorder Macbeth causes?
- 24th January 1955Why does Elizabeth refuse Mr Collins, and what does the refusal show?
- 25th January 1955Identify the sentence opening technique used here: 'Slowly, the door creaked open.'
- 26th January 1955In 'The man who lives next door, although he is quiet, works nights,' how many subordinate clauses are there?
- 27th January 1955Identify the sentence type: 'Although the bell rang, nobody moved.'
- 28th January 1955What does the four-mark question at the start of Section A test?
- 29th January 1955Who is the recipient of the letters that frame the novel?
- 30th January 1955True or false: Jane marries St John Rivers.
- 31st January 1955Why is the sleepwalking scene written in prose when Lady Macbeth speaks in verse elsewhere?