Daily Practice · GCSE
May 2015 - GCSE 5-a-day
Every GCSE sheet published in May 2015, with answers. GCSE - language techniques, structure, comparison and exam-style writing.
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Every sheet in May 2015
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2015How many marks in Section B are for technical accuracy in spelling, punctuation and grammar?
- 2nd May 2015Where does Victor first create and reject the Creature?
- 3rd May 2015Name Jane's close friend at Lowood school, who dies of consumption/typhus.
- 4th May 2015Why is the sleepwalking scene written in prose when Lady Macbeth speaks in verse elsewhere?
- 5th May 2015Explain what the entail is and why it drives the plot.
- 6th May 2015Explain in one sentence why a single-word sentence such as 'Gone.' can be effective.
- 7th May 2015Is 'When the bell rang' a main clause or a subordinate clause?
- 8th May 2015Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang, and the students filed out.'
- 9th May 2015What should the structure question track across the whole extract?
- 10th May 2015Who is wrongly executed for the murder of Victor's brother William?
- 11th May 2015Why does Jane leave Thornfield Hall on what should have been her wedding day?
- 12th May 2015What is the effect of ending the play with Macbeth's severed head displayed on a pole?
- 13th May 2015Why is the opening sentence ironic?
- 14th May 2015Rewrite these two short sentences as one varied complex sentence: 'The rain fell. The streets flooded.'
- 15th May 2015Underline (state) the main clause: 'Because it was raining, the match was postponed.'
- 16th May 2015Rewrite 'It was raining. We stayed inside.' as one compound sentence.
- 17th May 2015How many sections does Paper 1 have?
- 18th May 2015True or false: Victor completes the female companion the Creature demands.
- 19th May 2015Who mistreats Jane at Gateshead Hall before she is sent away to school?
- 20th May 2015Give one way to bring in context on witchcraft without simply reciting a fact.
- 21st May 2015Give one way the novel presents the limits placed on women.
- 22nd May 2015Identify the sentence opening technique used here: 'Slowly, the door creaked open.'
- 23rd May 2015In 'The man who lives next door, although he is quiet, works nights,' how many subordinate clauses are there?
- 24th May 2015Identify the sentence type: 'Although the bell rang, nobody moved.'
- 25th May 2015What does the four-mark question at the start of Section A test?
- 26th May 2015Who is the recipient of the letters that frame the novel?
- 27th May 2015True or false: Jane marries St John Rivers.
- 28th May 2015Explain what equivocation means in the play and why it matters to the theme of appearance and reality.
- 29th May 2015Define free indirect discourse and give one moment where Austen's use of it misleads the reader.
- 30th May 2015Write a two-sentence pair, one long and one short, describing a sudden silence after a loud crash.
- 31st May 2015Combine into one complex sentence using a subordinating conjunction: 'The team trained hard. They wanted to win the final.'