Daily Practice · GCSE
July 1985 5-a-day
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Every sheet in July 1985
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- 1st July 1985How many marks in Section B are for technical accuracy in spelling, punctuation and grammar?
- 2nd July 1985Where does Victor first create and reject the Creature?
- 3rd July 1985Name Jane's close friend at Lowood school, who dies of consumption/typhus.
- 4th July 1985Explain what equivocation means in the play and why it matters to the theme of appearance and reality.
- 5th July 1985Define free indirect discourse and give one moment where Austen's use of it misleads the reader.
- 6th July 1985Explain in one sentence why a single-word sentence such as 'Gone.' can be effective.
- 7th July 1985Is 'When the bell rang' a main clause or a subordinate clause?
- 8th July 1985Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang, and the students filed out.'
- 9th July 1985What should the structure question track across the whole extract?
- 10th July 1985Who is wrongly executed for the murder of Victor's brother William?
- 11th July 1985Why does Jane leave Thornfield Hall on what should have been her wedding day?
- 12th July 1985Name three themes in Macbeth other than ambition, and give one moment in the play where each is most visible.
- 13th July 1985How does Austen use Mr Collins for satire?
- 14th July 1985Rewrite these two short sentences as one varied complex sentence: 'The rain fell. The streets flooded.'
- 15th July 1985Underline (state) the main clause: 'Because it was raining, the match was postponed.'
- 16th July 1985Rewrite 'It was raining. We stayed inside.' as one compound sentence.
- 17th July 1985How many sections does Paper 1 have?
- 18th July 1985True or false: Victor completes the female companion the Creature demands.
- 19th July 1985Who mistreats Jane at Gateshead Hall before she is sent away to school?
- 20th July 1985Explain why a thematic essay should not be organised character by character.
- 21st July 1985What changes Elizabeth's view of Darcy, and in what order?
- 22nd July 1985Identify the sentence opening technique used here: 'Slowly, the door creaked open.'
- 23rd July 1985In 'The man who lives next door, although he is quiet, works nights,' how many subordinate clauses are there?
- 24th July 1985Identify the sentence type: 'Although the bell rang, nobody moved.'
- 25th July 1985What does the four-mark question at the start of Section A test?
- 26th July 1985Who is the recipient of the letters that frame the novel?
- 27th July 1985True or false: Jane marries St John Rivers.
- 28th July 1985How does the natural world reflect the disorder Macbeth causes?
- 29th July 1985Why does Elizabeth refuse Mr Collins, and what does the refusal show?
- 30th July 1985Write a two-sentence pair, one long and one short, describing a sudden silence after a loud crash.
- 31st July 1985Combine into one complex sentence using a subordinating conjunction: 'The team trained hard. They wanted to win the final.'