Daily Practice · GCSE
May 2001 - GCSE 5-a-day
Every GCSE sheet published in May 2001, with answers. GCSE - language techniques, structure, comparison and exam-style writing.
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Every sheet in May 2001
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2001Identify the sentence type: 'Although the bell rang, nobody moved.'
- 2nd May 2001What does the four-mark question at the start of Section A test?
- 3rd May 2001Who is the recipient of the letters that frame the novel?
- 4th May 2001True or false: Jane marries St John Rivers.
- 5th May 2001Explain why a thematic essay should not be organised character by character.
- 6th May 2001What changes Elizabeth's view of Darcy, and in what order?
- 7th May 2001Write a two-sentence pair, one long and one short, describing a sudden silence after a loud crash.
- 8th May 2001Combine into one complex sentence using a subordinating conjunction: 'The team trained hard. They wanted to win the final.'
- 9th May 2001Explain why a writer might follow three long sentences with one very short sentence.
- 10th May 2001In 'the lift doors had jammed half-open,' identify one language technique.
- 11th May 2001Identify the technique in Victor's description of the Alps: 'the immense mountains and precipices...the palaces of nature.'
- 12th May 2001Identify the technique in the description of Bertha Mason as a figure locked in the attic at Thornfield.
- 13th May 2001How does the natural world reflect the disorder Macbeth causes?
- 14th May 2001Why does Elizabeth refuse Mr Collins, and what does the refusal show?
- 15th May 2001True or false: using only long, complex sentences throughout a piece creates strong sentence variety.
- 16th May 2001Identify the subordinating conjunction in: 'She left early because she felt unwell.'
- 17th May 2001Rewrite 'The dog barked loudly.' starting with an -ing clause instead of the subject.
- 18th May 2001In Section B, name one way to vary your writing for effect.
- 19th May 2001Give one piece of evidence that Victor abandons responsibility for his creation.
- 20th May 2001Give one piece of evidence that Jane and Rochester marry as equals rather than as master and servant.
- 21st May 2001Why is the sleepwalking scene written in prose when Lady Macbeth speaks in verse elsewhere?
- 22nd May 2001Explain what the entail is and why it drives the plot.
- 23rd May 2001Which is more likely to create impact at the end of a tense paragraph: a long complex sentence or a short simple sentence?
- 24th May 2001Identify the relative pronoun in: 'The book, which was on the table, belonged to my sister.'
- 25th May 2001Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang.'
- 26th May 2001How many marks in Section B are for technical accuracy in spelling, punctuation and grammar?
- 27th May 2001Where does Victor first create and reject the Creature?
- 28th May 2001Name Jane's close friend at Lowood school, who dies of consumption/typhus.
- 29th May 2001What is the effect of ending the play with Macbeth's severed head displayed on a pole?
- 30th May 2001Why is the opening sentence ironic?
- 31st May 2001Explain in one sentence why a single-word sentence such as 'Gone.' can be effective.