Daily Practice · GCSE
March 1999 - GCSE 5-a-day
Every GCSE sheet published in March 1999, with answers. GCSE - language techniques, structure, comparison and exam-style writing.
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Every sheet in March 1999
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 1999Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang.'
- 2nd March 1999How many marks in Section B are for technical accuracy in spelling, punctuation and grammar?
- 3rd March 1999Where does Victor first create and reject the Creature?
- 4th March 1999Name Jane's close friend at Lowood school, who dies of consumption/typhus.
- 5th March 1999Name three themes in Macbeth other than ambition, and give one moment in the play where each is most visible.
- 6th March 1999How does Austen use Mr Collins for satire?
- 7th March 1999Explain in one sentence why a single-word sentence such as 'Gone.' can be effective.
- 8th March 1999Is 'When the bell rang' a main clause or a subordinate clause?
- 9th March 1999Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang, and the students filed out.'
- 10th March 1999What should the structure question track across the whole extract?
- 11th March 1999Who is wrongly executed for the murder of Victor's brother William?
- 12th March 1999Why does Jane leave Thornfield Hall on what should have been her wedding day?
- 13th March 1999Explain why a thematic essay should not be organised character by character.
- 14th March 1999What changes Elizabeth's view of Darcy, and in what order?
- 15th March 1999Rewrite these two short sentences as one varied complex sentence: 'The rain fell. The streets flooded.'
- 16th March 1999Underline (state) the main clause: 'Because it was raining, the match was postponed.'
- 17th March 1999Rewrite 'It was raining. We stayed inside.' as one compound sentence.
- 18th March 1999How many sections does Paper 1 have?
- 19th March 1999True or false: Victor completes the female companion the Creature demands.
- 20th March 1999Who mistreats Jane at Gateshead Hall before she is sent away to school?
- 21st March 1999How does the natural world reflect the disorder Macbeth causes?
- 22nd March 1999Why does Elizabeth refuse Mr Collins, and what does the refusal show?
- 23rd March 1999Identify the sentence opening technique used here: 'Slowly, the door creaked open.'
- 24th March 1999In 'The man who lives next door, although he is quiet, works nights,' how many subordinate clauses are there?
- 25th March 1999Identify the sentence type: 'Although the bell rang, nobody moved.'
- 26th March 1999What does the four-mark question at the start of Section A test?
- 27th March 1999Who is the recipient of the letters that frame the novel?
- 28th March 1999True or false: Jane marries St John Rivers.
- 29th March 1999Why is the sleepwalking scene written in prose when Lady Macbeth speaks in verse elsewhere?
- 30th March 1999Explain what the entail is and why it drives the plot.
- 31st March 1999Write a two-sentence pair, one long and one short, describing a sudden silence after a loud crash.