Daily Practice · GCSE
December 2014 - GCSE 5-a-day
Every GCSE sheet published in December 2014, with answers. GCSE - language techniques, structure, comparison and exam-style writing.
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Every sheet in December 2014
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 2014Give one piece of evidence that Victor abandons responsibility for his creation.
- 2nd December 2014Give one piece of evidence that Jane and Rochester marry as equals rather than as master and servant.
- 3rd December 2014Give one way to bring in context on witchcraft without simply reciting a fact.
- 4th December 2014Give one way the novel presents the limits placed on women.
- 5th December 2014Which is more likely to create impact at the end of a tense paragraph: a long complex sentence or a short simple sentence?
- 6th December 2014Identify the relative pronoun in: 'The book, which was on the table, belonged to my sister.'
- 7th December 2014Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang.'
- 8th December 2014How many marks in Section B are for technical accuracy in spelling, punctuation and grammar?
- 9th December 2014Where does Victor first create and reject the Creature?
- 10th December 2014Name Jane's close friend at Lowood school, who dies of consumption/typhus.
- 11th December 2014Explain what equivocation means in the play and why it matters to the theme of appearance and reality.
- 12th December 2014Define free indirect discourse and give one moment where Austen's use of it misleads the reader.
- 13th December 2014Explain in one sentence why a single-word sentence such as 'Gone.' can be effective.
- 14th December 2014Is 'When the bell rang' a main clause or a subordinate clause?
- 15th December 2014Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang, and the students filed out.'
- 16th December 2014What should the structure question track across the whole extract?
- 17th December 2014Who is wrongly executed for the murder of Victor's brother William?
- 18th December 2014Why does Jane leave Thornfield Hall on what should have been her wedding day?
- 19th December 2014Name three themes in Macbeth other than ambition, and give one moment in the play where each is most visible.
- 20th December 2014How does Austen use Mr Collins for satire?
- 21st December 2014Rewrite these two short sentences as one varied complex sentence: 'The rain fell. The streets flooded.'
- 22nd December 2014Underline (state) the main clause: 'Because it was raining, the match was postponed.'
- 23rd December 2014Rewrite 'It was raining. We stayed inside.' as one compound sentence.
- 24th December 2014How many sections does Paper 1 have?
- 25th December 2014True or false: Victor completes the female companion the Creature demands.
- 26th December 2014Who mistreats Jane at Gateshead Hall before she is sent away to school?
- 27th December 2014Explain why a thematic essay should not be organised character by character.
- 28th December 2014What changes Elizabeth's view of Darcy, and in what order?
- 29th December 2014Identify the sentence opening technique used here: 'Slowly, the door creaked open.'
- 30th December 2014In 'The man who lives next door, although he is quiet, works nights,' how many subordinate clauses are there?
- 31st December 2014Identify the sentence type: 'Although the bell rang, nobody moved.'