Daily Practice · GCSE
September 2016 - GCSE 5-a-day
Every GCSE sheet published in September 2016, with answers. GCSE - language techniques, structure, comparison and exam-style writing.
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Every sheet in September 2016
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 2016Who is wrongly executed for the murder of Victor's brother William?
- 2nd September 2016Why does Jane leave Thornfield Hall on what should have been her wedding day?
- 3rd September 2016Explain why a thematic essay should not be organised character by character.
- 4th September 2016What changes Elizabeth's view of Darcy, and in what order?
- 5th September 2016Rewrite these two short sentences as one varied complex sentence: 'The rain fell. The streets flooded.'
- 6th September 2016Underline (state) the main clause: 'Because it was raining, the match was postponed.'
- 7th September 2016Rewrite 'It was raining. We stayed inside.' as one compound sentence.
- 8th September 2016How many sections does Paper 1 have?
- 9th September 2016True or false: Victor completes the female companion the Creature demands.
- 10th September 2016Who mistreats Jane at Gateshead Hall before she is sent away to school?
- 11th September 2016How does the natural world reflect the disorder Macbeth causes?
- 12th September 2016Why does Elizabeth refuse Mr Collins, and what does the refusal show?
- 13th September 2016Identify the sentence opening technique used here: 'Slowly, the door creaked open.'
- 14th September 2016In 'The man who lives next door, although he is quiet, works nights,' how many subordinate clauses are there?
- 15th September 2016Identify the sentence type: 'Although the bell rang, nobody moved.'
- 16th September 2016What does the four-mark question at the start of Section A test?
- 17th September 2016Who is the recipient of the letters that frame the novel?
- 18th September 2016True or false: Jane marries St John Rivers.
- 19th September 2016Why is the sleepwalking scene written in prose when Lady Macbeth speaks in verse elsewhere?
- 20th September 2016Explain what the entail is and why it drives the plot.
- 21st September 2016Write a two-sentence pair, one long and one short, describing a sudden silence after a loud crash.
- 22nd September 2016Combine into one complex sentence using a subordinating conjunction: 'The team trained hard. They wanted to win the final.'
- 23rd September 2016Explain why a writer might follow three long sentences with one very short sentence.
- 24th September 2016In 'the lift doors had jammed half-open,' identify one language technique.
- 25th September 2016Identify the technique in Victor's description of the Alps: 'the immense mountains and precipices...the palaces of nature.'
- 26th September 2016Identify the technique in the description of Bertha Mason as a figure locked in the attic at Thornfield.
- 27th September 2016What is the effect of ending the play with Macbeth's severed head displayed on a pole?
- 28th September 2016Why is the opening sentence ironic?
- 29th September 2016True or false: using only long, complex sentences throughout a piece creates strong sentence variety.
- 30th September 2016Identify the subordinating conjunction in: 'She left early because she felt unwell.'