Daily Practice · GCSE
December 1975 5-a-day
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The batch download puts all 5 tiers' December 1975 sheets in a single PDF, each tier behind its own divider page - 155 sheets in one file.
Every sheet in December 1975
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1975Why does Elizabeth refuse Mr Collins, and what does the refusal show?
- 2nd December 1975Explain in one sentence why a single-word sentence such as 'Gone.' can be effective.
- 3rd December 1975Is 'When the bell rang' a main clause or a subordinate clause?
- 4th December 1975Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang, and the students filed out.'
- 5th December 1975What should the structure question track across the whole extract?
- 6th December 1975Who is wrongly executed for the murder of Victor's brother William?
- 7th December 1975Why does Jane leave Thornfield Hall on what should have been her wedding day?
- 8th December 1975Why is the sleepwalking scene written in prose when Lady Macbeth speaks in verse elsewhere?
- 9th December 1975Explain what the entail is and why it drives the plot.
- 10th December 1975Rewrite these two short sentences as one varied complex sentence: 'The rain fell. The streets flooded.'
- 11th December 1975Underline (state) the main clause: 'Because it was raining, the match was postponed.'
- 12th December 1975Rewrite 'It was raining. We stayed inside.' as one compound sentence.
- 13th December 1975How many sections does Paper 1 have?
- 14th December 1975True or false: Victor completes the female companion the Creature demands.
- 15th December 1975Who mistreats Jane at Gateshead Hall before she is sent away to school?
- 16th December 1975What is the effect of ending the play with Macbeth's severed head displayed on a pole?
- 17th December 1975Why is the opening sentence ironic?
- 18th December 1975Identify the sentence opening technique used here: 'Slowly, the door creaked open.'
- 19th December 1975In 'The man who lives next door, although he is quiet, works nights,' how many subordinate clauses are there?
- 20th December 1975Identify the sentence type: 'Although the bell rang, nobody moved.'
- 21st December 1975What does the four-mark question at the start of Section A test?
- 22nd December 1975Who is the recipient of the letters that frame the novel?
- 23rd December 1975True or false: Jane marries St John Rivers.
- 24th December 1975Give one way to bring in context on witchcraft without simply reciting a fact.
- 25th December 1975Give one way the novel presents the limits placed on women.
- 26th December 1975Write a two-sentence pair, one long and one short, describing a sudden silence after a loud crash.
- 27th December 1975Combine into one complex sentence using a subordinating conjunction: 'The team trained hard. They wanted to win the final.'
- 28th December 1975Explain why a writer might follow three long sentences with one very short sentence.
- 29th December 1975In 'the lift doors had jammed half-open,' identify one language technique.
- 30th December 1975Identify the technique in Victor's description of the Alps: 'the immense mountains and precipices...the palaces of nature.'
- 31st December 1975Identify the technique in the description of Bertha Mason as a figure locked in the attic at Thornfield.