Daily Practice · GCSE

September 2010 - GCSE 5-a-day

Every GCSE sheet published in September 2010, with answers. GCSE - language techniques, structure, comparison and exam-style writing.

← Today's GCSE sheet

September 2010

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

Printing for a group?

The batch download puts all 5 tiers' September 2010 sheets in a single PDF, each tier behind its own divider page - 150 sheets in one file.

Every sheet in September 2010

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st September 2010Who is the recipient of the letters that frame the novel?
  2. 2nd September 2010True or false: Jane marries St John Rivers.
  3. 3rd September 2010Name three themes in Macbeth other than ambition, and give one moment in the play where each is most visible.
  4. 4th September 2010How does Austen use Mr Collins for satire?
  5. 5th September 2010Write a two-sentence pair, one long and one short, describing a sudden silence after a loud crash.
  6. 6th September 2010Combine into one complex sentence using a subordinating conjunction: 'The team trained hard. They wanted to win the final.'
  7. 7th September 2010Explain why a writer might follow three long sentences with one very short sentence.
  8. 8th September 2010In 'the lift doors had jammed half-open,' identify one language technique.
  9. 9th September 2010Identify the technique in Victor's description of the Alps: 'the immense mountains and precipices...the palaces of nature.'
  10. 10th September 2010Identify the technique in the description of Bertha Mason as a figure locked in the attic at Thornfield.
  11. 11th September 2010Explain why a thematic essay should not be organised character by character.
  12. 12th September 2010What changes Elizabeth's view of Darcy, and in what order?
  13. 13th September 2010True or false: using only long, complex sentences throughout a piece creates strong sentence variety.
  14. 14th September 2010Identify the subordinating conjunction in: 'She left early because she felt unwell.'
  15. 15th September 2010Rewrite 'The dog barked loudly.' starting with an -ing clause instead of the subject.
  16. 16th September 2010In Section B, name one way to vary your writing for effect.
  17. 17th September 2010Give one piece of evidence that Victor abandons responsibility for his creation.
  18. 18th September 2010Give one piece of evidence that Jane and Rochester marry as equals rather than as master and servant.
  19. 19th September 2010How does the natural world reflect the disorder Macbeth causes?
  20. 20th September 2010Why does Elizabeth refuse Mr Collins, and what does the refusal show?
  21. 21st September 2010Which is more likely to create impact at the end of a tense paragraph: a long complex sentence or a short simple sentence?
  22. 22nd September 2010Identify the relative pronoun in: 'The book, which was on the table, belonged to my sister.'
  23. 23rd September 2010Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang.'
  24. 24th September 2010How many marks in Section B are for technical accuracy in spelling, punctuation and grammar?
  25. 25th September 2010Where does Victor first create and reject the Creature?
  26. 26th September 2010Name Jane's close friend at Lowood school, who dies of consumption/typhus.
  27. 27th September 2010Why is the sleepwalking scene written in prose when Lady Macbeth speaks in verse elsewhere?
  28. 28th September 2010Explain what the entail is and why it drives the plot.
  29. 29th September 2010Explain in one sentence why a single-word sentence such as 'Gone.' can be effective.
  30. 30th September 2010Is 'When the bell rang' a main clause or a subordinate clause?

The same month at another level