CERTIFICATE for GENERAL EDUCATION
SEMESTER ONE — 2006/ 2007 — SAMPLE QUESTIONS
READING (20 mks)
READING 1 (8 mks)
1. E (a mobile phone)
2. C (a dictionary)
3. A (a compass)
4. G (a souvenir)
Notes: Two marks each.
Letters must be clearly
legible.
READING 2 (12 mks)
5. trees/ colony
6. the red ants
7. the queen
8. 15,000 kinds
9. a quarter a million or 250
thousands
10. They live in societies. /
live together/ in groups
Notes: Two marks each.
Ignore spelling or grammar
mistakes, if answer is
otherwise correct.
WRITING 1 (10 mks)
– Provides relevant information
10 effectively and in an interesting
way.
– Provides relevant information
8 with reasonable success.
– Manages to provide some
6 relevant information, but only in
a limited way.
– An attempt is made to provide
4 some information, but the result
is obviously inadequate.
– A very feeble attempt at the
2 task, providing very little
relevant information.
No attempt at the task: EITHER Irrelevant. (Not related to the instructions, topic or pictures)
0 OR No writing at all, or not written in English
ELECTIVE ENGLISH MARKING GUIDE
TOTAL: 70 marks 1 page only
WRITING 2 (20 mks) WRITING 3 (20 mks)
– Tells the story fully and clearly, in a
lively, interesting way, providing
Description is complete, clear,
appropriate details.
20 well-organised and mostly – The narrative is coherent and easy to
correct.
follow.
– Not many language errors.
– Tells the story reasonably well,
attempting to provide some appropriate
Conveys the information with
details.
reasonable coherence, but
16 with some noticeable
– The narrative is mostly easy to follow,
despite occasional weaknesses in
language errors.
coherence.
– Some noticeable language errors.
– Manages to convey the main outline of
Manages to convey most of the story, but only in a very limited way.
the information, but there are – The narrative shows reasonable
12 quite frequent language errors coherence but is, in parts, not easy to
and some problems with follow.
coherence. – Language is limited in range and/or
contains frequent errors
– An attempt is made to tell the story, but
Important information is important points are either missing or
missing or unclear. There are unclear.
8 many serious language errors – The narrative obviously lacks coherence
and writing obviously lacks and is generally difficult to follow.
coherence. – Language used is very limited and/or
contains many serious errors.
– A very feeble attempt to tell the story,
Conveys very little information; with very little relevant content.
language is very limited, – The narrative is largely incoherent and
4 disjointed and seriously extremely difficult to follow.
flawed. – Language used is extremely limited
and/or seriously distorted.
OR Just copied from the exam paper OR Complete nonsense.