Grade 11/12
Compulsory English: Eng. 003 (Grade 11), Eng.
004 (Grade 12) Test Specification Chart for
External Evaluation
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Reading (35
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1. Reading Comprehension Test (15 marks) One unseen prose text of about 500 words like;
book/film reviews, news reports, articles, stories, reports, letters or emails, essays,
biographies/auto-biographies, product guides, blogs, brochures, travelogues/memoirs, etc. followed by comprehension
questions targeting the testing of the following skills involved in reading: ·
understanding the general content of paragraphs or sections ·
identifying
and understanding specific information in the passage ·
scanning and understanding information ·
understanding
the opinions of the writer ·
understanding
words in context ·
identifying the
aims of a passage ·
understanding
details and order
of information a.
Number of test items: 15 b. Types of test items:
any three; Multiple Choice,
True/False/Not Given, Sentence Completion, Matching, Ordering, Summary Completion, and Short
Answer Questions. One type of question
should test the vocabulary in
context. c. The questions should have a mixture of different types
of comprehension: literal
comprehension, reorganization, inferential, and evaluation. 2. Text-Based questions knowledge questions short questions (20 marks) This section
contains the questions from the texts in literature section. This follows
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Knowledge
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Higher Ability |
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Genres |
Short answer questions |
Long answer questions |
Short answer questions |
Long answer questions |
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Short stories |
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2 |
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Poems |
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Essays |
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One act plays |
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Total |
Short Answer Questions = 5x2 = 10 Long
Answer Questions = 2x5 = 10 |
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Writing (25 marks) |
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Three Writing Tasks
will be given: 1. Task 1 (1X7=7) Any one of the paragraph question paragraph questions writing, summary writing, interpreting the graphic graphic, text,
news story writing,
note taking, and skeleton stories. Word limit: 150 nerds. 2. Task 2 (1X8=8) Any on of personal letter, job application letter, letter to the editor,
business letter, email,
writing a CV. Word limit:
180 words. 3. Task 3 (1X10=10) Any
one essay, travelogue/memoir, book/film review, biography, diary entry,
communiq us, ee and press release. Word limit:
300 words. |
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Grammar and
vocabulary (15 marks) |
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1. Grammar (10X1=10 marks) The test item on grammar will cover the following contents. a.
Adjectives and adverbs b. Concord/subject verb
agreement c.
Prepositions d. Modal auxiliaries e. Tense and aspects f.
Infinitives
and gerunds g. Conjunctions h.
Relative clause i. Voice j. Reported speech 2. Vocabulary: 5 marks This section covers
the following contents. The task can be asked
from any of them. a.
Sound system
of English: consonants and vowels b.
Vocabulary
study - Stem/root
- Suffixes - Prefixes
- Derivation - Inflexion
- Synonyms/antonyms - Parts of speech
- Idioms and phrases -
Nouns-number - Verb
conjugation - Spelling
- Punctuation c.
Dictionary use d. Idioms
and phrasal verbs (Note: Any two items should
be included . Sound System
of English will be tested in grade 12 only) |
1.
Read the text and
do the tasks 15
Mt Everest grows
by nearly meters to a new height
The world's highest mountain Mount Everest is 0.86m
higher than had been previously officially calculated, Nepal and China have jointly announced. Until now the countries differed over whether to add the snow cap on top. The
new height is 8,848.86m (29,032 ft). China's previous official measurement of 8,844.43m had put the mountain nearly four meters lower than Nepal's.
5 Everest stands on the border
between China and Nepal and mountaineers climb it from both sides. Officials at Nepal's foreign
ministry and department of the survey said surveyors from both countriescoordinatede, to agree on the
new height. The agreement to jointly announce the new measurement of the Earth's highest point was made during
Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu last year.
10 Chinese authorities had said
previously Mount Everest should be measured to its rock height, while Nepalese authorities argued the snow
on top of the summit should be included. The
Chinese surveyors had calculated their figure after they measured
the mountain in 2005. Nepal's government officials told the
BBC in 2012 that they were under pressure from China to accept the Chinese height and therefore they had decided to go for a fresh measurement to "set
15 the record straight once and for all". The 8,848m height,
Nepal had been using for Mount Everest was
determined by the Survey of India in 1954, but for the first time the country
has now conducted its own
measurement of the summit. Four Nepalese land surveyors spent two years training for the mission, before heading
to the summit. "Before this, we had never done the measurement ourselves," Damodar
Dhakal, spokesman at Nepal's department of the survey, told
20 the BBC. "Now that we have
a young, technical team [who could also go to the Everest summit], we could do it on our own,". Mr
Dhakal said. Nepal's lead surveyor Khimlal Gautam lost his toe due to
frostbite while on the summit to install height-measuring equipment
last year. "For
summiteers, scaling the highest peak means a great accomplishment. For
us, it was just the beginning," Mr Gautam had told BBC Nepali after his return.
"Unlike other surveys
of the
25 Everest in the past, we chose 03:00
tominimizedaytimee errors that could have been caused because of sunlight
in the day time."
Some geologists
have suggested a major earthquake in 2015
may have had an impact on Mount Everest's height. The 7.8 magnitude
earthquake killed nearly 9,000 people in Nepal and caused an aavatarthatto buryavatar ththatarts of the base camp at the mountain. At least 18 climbers
30 were killed. Some geologists said
the earthquake may have caused Everest's snow cap to shrink. Scientists found that some other Himalayan peaks
such as Langtang Himal, mostly to the
north of Kathmandu and close to the epicepicenter.d reduced in height by
approximately a metre after the earthquake. Others have argued that Mount Everest, like other Himalayan peaks, may have actually grown over time because of the shifting
tectonic plates it sits on. But
35 experts say major earthquakes
can result in that process being reversed. "The 2015 earthquake is also a
major reason why we re-measured the mountain," said Mr
Dhakal.
A. Choose the best answer (5x1=5)
a. The word 'announce' in the 7th line means:
i. utter words to convey information.
ii. make a formal statement about a fact.
iii. communicate information to someone.
b.
The word 'fresh'
in the phrase 'fresh measurement' in the second paragraph means:
i.
having its original
qualities unimpaired.
ii.
not frozen, tinned,
or otherwise preserved.
iii.
not previously
done, new or different.
c.
The word 'accomplishment' in the 23rd line means:
i.
the omission
of expected action.
ii.
an act or
instance of falling.
iii.
something that has been achieved
successfully.
d.
The word 'shrink' in the 29th line is
opposite in meaning to:
i.
expand.
ii.
contract.
iii.
reduce.
e.
The word approximately in the 31st line means:
i.
exactly.
ii.
nearly.
iii. precisely
B. Complete the following sentences in NOT MORE THAN FOUR WORDS. (5X1=5)
a.
Nepal and China previously had different views about adding the ........................
to the height of Mt. Everest.
b. Surveyors from both Nepal and China had worked together to come up with the same view on the.................................... of Mt. Everest.
c.
China's earlier official
measurement of 8844.43 m was based on the measurement done in
.........................
d.
The team leader
of Nepal's surveyors
lost his toe during the installment of
........................ on the top.
e. Some geologists also had their view that the change in........... under Mt. Everest may have increased its height.
C. Answer the following questions. 5x1=5
a. a. What did the surveyors from both Nepal and China agree on to come up with the same height as Mt. Everest?
b. Why did both countries determine to carry out the new measurement of Mt. Everest?
c. c. Which sentence in the text indicates that it was the first time for Nepal to measure the height of Mt. Everest?
d. Why did the Nepali team take 3:00 as a reference in measuring the summit?
e. What covered the parts of the base camp in the mountains during the 2015 earthquake
2. Write short answers to the following questions. (5X2=10)
a. Why is the speaker saying that 'the children are the most beautiful flowersallall'?(The Selfish Giant)
b. What were the circumstances that led to Aksionov's imprisonment? God Sees the Truth)
c. What is the speaker's attitude toward war? (The Gift in War Time)
d. What do you think is the main idea of the essay 'What is Poverty?'? Is the main idea of the essay explicit or implicit?
e. Why are Don Gonzalo and Laura annoyed with each other? (A Sunny Morning)
3. Write long answers to the following questions. (2X5=10)
a. Jobs contends that you need to love what you do to be great at it. Do you agree or disagree? Why?(How to Live Before You Die)
b. Write the summary of the poem 'All the World's a Stage'.
4. The following bar graph shows the total cases of COVID-19 infection in Nepal from 2020-01-01 to 2021-01-20. Write an interpretation of it in about 150 words. 7
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5. Suppose you are the coordinator of the organizing committee for 'Sports Week' at your school. Write an email inviting the other members of the committee to the first meeting. 8
6. Is the use of smartphones useful for the students of secondary level? Write an essay discussing the advantages and disadvantages of smartphones in about 300 words.
7. Do as indicated in brackets and rewrite the sentences. (10X1=10)
a.
The good boy behaved well. (Underline the adverb in the sentence)
b.
Many of the houses in this neighborhood (don't/does/ didn't ) have garages.
(Choose one form from the bracket)
c.
We insist ............. punctuality in this office. (Put the correct
preposition in the blank)
d.
It ............. be Anton's car. I saw him driving
the car yesterday. (Put the correct modal
in the blank)
e.
She............... (write) three books and she is working on another one. (Put the verb
from the bracket in correct tense)
f.
I need to stop (doing/to do) my homework late at night. I keep making terrible mistakes. (Choose one form from the bracket to complete the sentence)
g.
The minister stood still................ the master of ceremony's request to take her seat.
(Put the correct conjunction in the blank)
h.
Marie Curie is the woman. She discovered radium. (Join the sentences with a relative pronoun)
i.
She said, "Would you like me to help you?" (Use the reporting
verb offer to change the sentence into indirect speech)
j. I hate people laughing at me. (Change into passive)
8. Write the word class of the underlined words in the following sentences. (5X1=5)
a. a. While you can sometimes ascribe these symptoms to allergies, I'm pretty sure you have a full-fledged cold.
b.
The police have all the evidence necessary to convict the young criminal
now.
c.
We have been frantically trying to save her life.
d.
I'm glad she got
the job – she needed something to boost her ego.
e.
The art of producing beautiful
writing with a special pen or brush is called
calligraphy.
(This is just one
sample of the test of the specification chart.)