READING 40 Marks

The assessment of reading skill follows the following structure:Reading 1: One short reading text from the textbook with one type of comprehension question [5]Reading 2: One short reading text from the textbook with two types of comprehension questions [10]Reading 3: One short reading text not given in the textbook with two types of comprehension questions [10]Reading 4: One short reading text not given in the textbook with three types of comprehension questions [15]Note:

•  Text types for reading 3 and 4: story, notice, advertisement, product guide, letters, news stories, brochure, manuals, diary entry, biography, autobiography, essay, newspaper article, science article, book/film review and other level appropriate texts.
•  Total number of test items = 40
•  Question types: True/False, Fill in the Gaps, Multiple Choice, Matching, Ordering and Short Answer Questions
•  Except for short answer questions, the same types of questions should not be repeated in the two seen passages. This applies to the two unseen passages as well.
•  Reading 4 should contain a test type for testing vocabulary.
•  The comprehension questions should cover Literal Comprehension (LC), Reorganization (R), Inference (I) and Evaluation (E).

WRITING 35 marks

I. Creative: 25 marks

The assessment of writing skill follows the following structure:

1.  Guided writing I: paragraph, description of tables/charts/diagrams, a set of instructions, recipe, menu, a set of rules and regulations, advertisement and notice.

1. Guided writing II: news story, skeleton story, CV, leaflet/brochure

1.  Free writing I: paragraph (presenting view, opinion, experience, feeling), leave application, job application, dialogue

1.  Free writing II: personal letter, short essay, CV, résumé, newspaper article, book review/film review, brochure/leaflet

Note:

•  Organization, coherence and cohesion, subject matter, appropriateness and correctness of language, range of vocabulary and layout will be assessed in the writing section.
•  The type of writing task should not be similar to any of the reading text given in the test paper.

II. Grammar: 10 marks

1. Articles [1]
2. Prepositions [1]
3. Tenses [1]
4. Connectives [1]
5. Question tags [1]
6. Reported speech [1]
7. Voice [1]
8. Conditional sentences [1]
9. Subject-verb agreement [1]
10. Relative Clause [1]
11. Causatives [1]

Question types:

1.  Reproduction: This should cover tense, question tag, reported speech, voice, and interrogation and negation [5×1=5 marks]
2.  Multiple choice (in a contextual passage): This should contain articles, prepositions, connectives, conditional sentence, subject verb agreement, and causative verbs[6×1=6 marks]