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February 2024 - GCSE 5-a-day
Every GCSE sheet published in February 2024, with answers. GCSE - language techniques, structure, comparison and exam-style writing.
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Every sheet in February 2024
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 2024Combine into one complex sentence using a subordinating conjunction: 'The team trained hard. They wanted to win the final.'
- 2nd February 2024Explain why a writer might follow three long sentences with one very short sentence.
- 3rd February 2024In 'the lift doors had jammed half-open,' identify one language technique.
- 4th February 2024Identify the technique in Victor's description of the Alps: 'the immense mountains and precipices...the palaces of nature.'
- 5th February 2024Identify the technique in the description of Bertha Mason as a figure locked in the attic at Thornfield.
- 6th February 2024What is the effect of ending the play with Macbeth's severed head displayed on a pole?
- 7th February 2024Why is the opening sentence ironic?
- 8th February 2024True or false: using only long, complex sentences throughout a piece creates strong sentence variety.
- 9th February 2024Identify the subordinating conjunction in: 'She left early because she felt unwell.'
- 10th February 2024Rewrite 'The dog barked loudly.' starting with an -ing clause instead of the subject.
- 11th February 2024In Section B, name one way to vary your writing for effect.
- 12th February 2024Give one piece of evidence that Victor abandons responsibility for his creation.
- 13th February 2024Give one piece of evidence that Jane and Rochester marry as equals rather than as master and servant.
- 14th February 2024Give one way to bring in context on witchcraft without simply reciting a fact.
- 15th February 2024Give one way the novel presents the limits placed on women.
- 16th February 2024Which is more likely to create impact at the end of a tense paragraph: a long complex sentence or a short simple sentence?
- 17th February 2024Identify the relative pronoun in: 'The book, which was on the table, belonged to my sister.'
- 18th February 2024Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang.'
- 19th February 2024How many marks in Section B are for technical accuracy in spelling, punctuation and grammar?
- 20th February 2024Where does Victor first create and reject the Creature?
- 21st February 2024Name Jane's close friend at Lowood school, who dies of consumption/typhus.
- 22nd February 2024Explain what equivocation means in the play and why it matters to the theme of appearance and reality.
- 23rd February 2024Define free indirect discourse and give one moment where Austen's use of it misleads the reader.
- 24th February 2024Explain in one sentence why a single-word sentence such as 'Gone.' can be effective.
- 25th February 2024Is 'When the bell rang' a main clause or a subordinate clause?
- 26th February 2024Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang, and the students filed out.'
- 27th February 2024What should the structure question track across the whole extract?
- 28th February 2024Who is wrongly executed for the murder of Victor's brother William?
- 29th February 2024Why does Jane leave Thornfield Hall on what should have been her wedding day?