Daily Practice · GCSE
December 1996 - GCSE 5-a-day
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The batch download puts all 5 tiers' December 1996 sheets in a single PDF, each tier behind its own divider page - 155 sheets in one file.
Every sheet in December 1996
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1996How does the natural world reflect the disorder Macbeth causes?
- 2nd December 1996Why does Elizabeth refuse Mr Collins, and what does the refusal show?
- 3rd December 1996Which is more likely to create impact at the end of a tense paragraph: a long complex sentence or a short simple sentence?
- 4th December 1996Identify the relative pronoun in: 'The book, which was on the table, belonged to my sister.'
- 5th December 1996Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang.'
- 6th December 1996How many marks in Section B are for technical accuracy in spelling, punctuation and grammar?
- 7th December 1996Where does Victor first create and reject the Creature?
- 8th December 1996Name Jane's close friend at Lowood school, who dies of consumption/typhus.
- 9th December 1996Why is the sleepwalking scene written in prose when Lady Macbeth speaks in verse elsewhere?
- 10th December 1996Explain what the entail is and why it drives the plot.
- 11th December 1996Explain in one sentence why a single-word sentence such as 'Gone.' can be effective.
- 12th December 1996Is 'When the bell rang' a main clause or a subordinate clause?
- 13th December 1996Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang, and the students filed out.'
- 14th December 1996What should the structure question track across the whole extract?
- 15th December 1996Who is wrongly executed for the murder of Victor's brother William?
- 16th December 1996Why does Jane leave Thornfield Hall on what should have been her wedding day?
- 17th December 1996What is the effect of ending the play with Macbeth's severed head displayed on a pole?
- 18th December 1996Why is the opening sentence ironic?
- 19th December 1996Rewrite these two short sentences as one varied complex sentence: 'The rain fell. The streets flooded.'
- 20th December 1996Underline (state) the main clause: 'Because it was raining, the match was postponed.'
- 21st December 1996Rewrite 'It was raining. We stayed inside.' as one compound sentence.
- 22nd December 1996How many sections does Paper 1 have?
- 23rd December 1996True or false: Victor completes the female companion the Creature demands.
- 24th December 1996Who mistreats Jane at Gateshead Hall before she is sent away to school?
- 25th December 1996Give one way to bring in context on witchcraft without simply reciting a fact.
- 26th December 1996Give one way the novel presents the limits placed on women.
- 27th December 1996Identify the sentence opening technique used here: 'Slowly, the door creaked open.'
- 28th December 1996In 'The man who lives next door, although he is quiet, works nights,' how many subordinate clauses are there?
- 29th December 1996Identify the sentence type: 'Although the bell rang, nobody moved.'
- 30th December 1996What does the four-mark question at the start of Section A test?
- 31st December 1996Who is the recipient of the letters that frame the novel?