Daily Practice · GCSE
October 1985 5-a-day
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Every sheet in October 1985
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1985Explain what the entail is and why it drives the plot.
- 2nd October 1985Which is more likely to create impact at the end of a tense paragraph: a long complex sentence or a short simple sentence?
- 3rd October 1985Identify the relative pronoun in: 'The book, which was on the table, belonged to my sister.'
- 4th October 1985Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang.'
- 5th October 1985How many marks in Section B are for technical accuracy in spelling, punctuation and grammar?
- 6th October 1985Where does Victor first create and reject the Creature?
- 7th October 1985Name Jane's close friend at Lowood school, who dies of consumption/typhus.
- 8th October 1985What is the effect of ending the play with Macbeth's severed head displayed on a pole?
- 9th October 1985Why is the opening sentence ironic?
- 10th October 1985Explain in one sentence why a single-word sentence such as 'Gone.' can be effective.
- 11th October 1985Is 'When the bell rang' a main clause or a subordinate clause?
- 12th October 1985Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang, and the students filed out.'
- 13th October 1985What should the structure question track across the whole extract?
- 14th October 1985Who is wrongly executed for the murder of Victor's brother William?
- 15th October 1985Why does Jane leave Thornfield Hall on what should have been her wedding day?
- 16th October 1985Give one way to bring in context on witchcraft without simply reciting a fact.
- 17th October 1985Give one way the novel presents the limits placed on women.
- 18th October 1985Rewrite these two short sentences as one varied complex sentence: 'The rain fell. The streets flooded.'
- 19th October 1985Underline (state) the main clause: 'Because it was raining, the match was postponed.'
- 20th October 1985Rewrite 'It was raining. We stayed inside.' as one compound sentence.
- 21st October 1985How many sections does Paper 1 have?
- 22nd October 1985True or false: Victor completes the female companion the Creature demands.
- 23rd October 1985Who mistreats Jane at Gateshead Hall before she is sent away to school?
- 24th October 1985Explain what equivocation means in the play and why it matters to the theme of appearance and reality.
- 25th October 1985Define free indirect discourse and give one moment where Austen's use of it misleads the reader.
- 26th October 1985Identify the sentence opening technique used here: 'Slowly, the door creaked open.'
- 27th October 1985In 'The man who lives next door, although he is quiet, works nights,' how many subordinate clauses are there?
- 28th October 1985Identify the sentence type: 'Although the bell rang, nobody moved.'
- 29th October 1985What does the four-mark question at the start of Section A test?
- 30th October 1985Who is the recipient of the letters that frame the novel?
- 31st October 1985True or false: Jane marries St John Rivers.