A comprehension about Caroline Norton who successfully campaigned to improve the lives of women in Victorian times. Questions include vocabulary, information retrieval and language analysis. Suggested answers are provided too! Although now virtually unknown, she was quite a celebrity in her lifetime and her achievements are, I think, worth celebrating. Written for KS3 students, it might also be a useful introduction to KS4 students looking at the situation of Victorian women or as a resource for International Women’s Day.

For CIE literature, 24 practice papers on To Kill A Mockingbird, part 1. Each paper has an extract-based question, with the extract reference, and a general question on character or theme as in the sample exam paper. it is not possible to give the extract in full

For CIE Literature, 31 practice papers on To Kill A Mockingbird, part 2. Each paper has an extract-based question with the extract reference. (It is not possible to provide the full extract.) Each paper also has a second question on character or theme as in the sample paper.

For CIE Literature, these 24 exam papers on The Mill on the Floss, books 1 & 2, each have an extract question, with the extract provided, and a second question on character or theme, as in sample papers.

For CIE Literature, these 20 exam papers each have an extract and extract question, and a second question on character or theme, as in sample papers.

For CIE literature, these 20 exam papers on Eliot’s Mill on the Floss, each have an extract and extract question, and a second question on character or theme, as in sample papers

For CIE literature revision, these 26 exam papers each have an extract and extract-based question, plus a second general question on characters or themes in the play, based on previous sample papers.

For CIE War of the Worlds, these 31 practice papers have one extract-based question, (but due to copyright only references to the required extract, not the full extract,) and one question on the novel as a whole, in the style of past CIE exam papers. This resource is on book 1 of the novel only.

For CIE literature, these 25 exam papers each have 2 questions. The first, as in the sample paper, is based on an extract, but due to copyright restrictions, only a reference to the extract can be provided, not the extract itself. (The edition used is the New Longmans Literature series(2000) ISBN 0 582 93446 7. ) The second question is a general question on character or theme. Ideal for exam practice or revision.