Henry Nicholas Lee SMK Kolombong

OUTLINE
y Introduction to Paper 2 y Marking Scheme y Answering Techniques y Mistakes done by students

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Section A Objective Question Question 1 to 8 Types of Questions - Graph - Proverbs or Idioms - Labels - Advertisement - signs

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How to find the Clue? Graph Keywords are: Lowest - Highest Increase - Decrease Constant - Mostly preferred More - Less

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Proverbs and Idiom How to find the clue? It is actually very hard to find the clue if the students are not familiar with the situation. What they can do is to make sense of the proverb or idiom or to find the logical meaning of them through the answers.

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Labels Advertisement signs How to find the clue? Search for the keywords!! Examples: The answer contains the same word mentioned in the question. Questions normally ask True or False statements

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Malacca Hotel Promotion RM100 applicable to all rooms per day Inclusive of breakfast and lunch during stay Question Malacca Hotel is promoting its hotel by a) Offering Dinner per stay b) Lowering its rate to RM200 per stay c) Offering breakfast and lunch upon stay

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Section A - Question 9 15 Types of Questions - Vocabulary - Tenses

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How to Answer? Look for the keyword. What is the keyword? The Tenses. If the sentence uses present tense then the answer should be in present tense.

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Examples: The bear ______ the leaves of the tree. It is very hungry. Choices of answers . a) Eat b) Eating c) Ate d) eats

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Example 2 The number of accidents (7)_____increased in the past seven years. The government has yet to overcome this (8)_____. Choices of answers.. 7. 8. a) Has a) Blessing b) Have b) accidents c) Was c) problem d) Are d) agenda

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Section B Information Transfer Clues What Anything Where Place, Venue When Date, Day, Month, Year, Time Why Because, For Who Name Which Choose one

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Section B Remember not to change anything from the text given. If You Change even 1 letter then the whole answer is considered incorrect!! Students may lift the whole sentence as the answer. This is not accepted as the question asks only for specific detail not the whole explanation!

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Section C - Reading Comprehension How to Answer? Remember that the questions are in order. It means that question 1 will be in paragraph 1 and so on.

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How to answer? Normally, the keyword is in the question. Example. Mountain climbing has always been his passion. For the records, he has climbed up more than 30 times around the world. To make his activity more challenging, he would climb alone until three to four days at the peak.

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Question How many times has he climbed mountains? He has climbed mountains more than 30 times.

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Other types of questions: 1. Meaning of words 2. Steps/ Procedures / 3. Opinions

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For meaning of words, student may take words that are found in the passage only. 2. Normally, questions that ask for steps or procedures or two answers at one time, the sequences (a & b) will be provided. One mark for one correct answer. Students who provide both correct answers in one sequence will only be awarded one mark. 3. For opinion-based question, answers should be personal and NOT taken from the text. As long as the answer is accepted then marks should be accepted.
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Section C Summary 1. Check for the given lines Examples Write your summary from lines 5 to 45. It means that your summary must not be elsewhere from these given lines.

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2. Only take the main points not the elaborations. Question: Write a summary on flowers.. Examples: Flowers like daisies, roses and carnations are beautiful. Answer: Flowers are beautiful.

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3. If possible, students need to use their own words because marks are allocated based on the use of their own words. Examples: Flowers like daisies, roses and carnations are beautiful. Their petals are red, yellow and white. Answers: Flowers are beautiful. They have many colours.

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4. For those who do not understand the passage at all.. Try this . a) Take the first sentence from each paragraph. b) Take out the a, an, the c) Add firstly, secondly, next and etc at every beginning of a sentence

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Remember to use the sentence given in the question and count the number of words. There are marks given for this

Marking Criteria
Section C Reading Comprehension Normally, all questions should carry 1 mark and the overall marks should be 10 marks. At the end, the last question should be an opinionbased question that carries 2 marks.

Marking Criteria
Section C Summary 10 points Language Rephrase - 10 marks - 5 marks - 5 marks

Rules: Even if the students provide more than 10 points, still, marks awarded are 10 marks. The marks for language and rephrase are divided by two.

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Can the students lift the whole sentences and how many marks are awarded for this style? Yes! However, there are two types of lifting: 1. Intelligent lifting (3 marks) 2. Whole lifting (1 mark)

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Will the marks be deducted if the students write more than the required number of words? No. However, marks will not be counted after the required number of words. A double slash is marked at the end of the required number of words to indicate the end of the counting of points.

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Are there any specific marking symbols to mark Summary? Yes: C1, C2, C3 to C10. C - Content Some students may jumble up all the points. Teachers still need to put the marking symbol accordingly.

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Section D Literature In Literature, there is no RIGHT and WRONG! Students must give the evidence or proof from the text.

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Types of question in Literature for question 32 and 33. (POEM and SHORT STORY) The questions may have different types of format, for example: 1,1,1,2 OR 1,2,2, The last question is always opinion-based question and as usual, as long as students provide answers, they are awarded marks. However, if the students contradict their answers, no marks are awarded! For example, Yes and No question.

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Can the students take words or lines from the text to support their answers? Yes, they can. However, they need to put the inverted commas.

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How many sentences, the least, that students can give to get the desired marks? 1 mark 2marks - One sentence only. - One answer in one sentence and One evidence in one new sentence

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Example: Poem (In The Midst Of Hardship) Why do you think the people in the poem do not complain even though their life is tough? this? Answer: The people do not complain because they are used to hardship. They are born in and grow up with hardship.

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Short story No questions for short stories in 2011.

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No marks awarded for language in Questions 32. However, there are 5 marks awarded for language in question 33.

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Example Novel (The Curse) Which character that you like and why? The character that I like is Azreen. (1 mark) Azreen is a responsible daughter (1 mark) She decided to take care of her sick mother before she went for further study (1 mark). She is envious (1 mark) of her sister Madhuri as Madhuri embodies the true characters of a Malay lady(1 mark). In the novel, Azreen is portrayed as being a helpful friend (1 mark) when she took the blame of Asraf in the bull incident.

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Novel There are 15 marks given 10 marks - points 5 marks - language

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What happens when students provide the points in incorrect grammar but the answers make sense? Marks for points are always awarded as long as the meaning is there. Students will only loose marks in the language section.

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Is it accepted for students to write the answers in point form? Marks will still be awarded for points but marks for language will be deducted.

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Are there any specific marking symbols to mark question 33? Yes. C E

- content - Elaborations

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Points 5 marks for your answers 5 marks to support your answer 5 marks for language