Summary

• Description:

  The MS Word document comprises Form 3 English Paper 2 End Term 3 2026 Exam with Marking Scheme. The PDF version is also available upon your request. The marking scheme is in a different document.

  This paper assesses literary appreciation and language command across unseen narrative comprehension, set text excerpts, poetry interpretation, and advanced grammatical structures. It is ideal for end-of-year school-based national assessment preparation towards the end of the term, and can also be effectively administered as a mid-term assessment for schools that have completed the syllabus early at the beginning of the term.

  • Duration: 2 Hours 30 Minutes
  • Total Marks: 80 Marks
  • Number of Questions: 4 Questions (1 – 4)
  • Structure: Question 1 (Comprehension - 25 Marks), Question 2 (Excerpt - 25 Marks), Question 3 (Poetry - 18 Marks), and Question 4 (Grammar - 15 Marks); all questions compulsory

  It covers the following topics:

  • Unseen prose comprehension: inferential reading, character attitudes, irony, contextual vocabulary, and summary writing
  • Literary excerpt analysis: contextual placement, thematic exploration, stylistic devices, and character portrayal
  • Poetic appreciation: persona identification, thematic interpretation, title significance, mood analysis, and figures of speech
  • Grammar and syntactic transformations: conditional clauses with "unless" and "if", inversion using negative adverbs ("Never..."), and restrictive adverbs ("hardly")
  • Vocabulary and idiom usage: phrasal verbs, idiomatic expressions, and correct prepositional use
  • Diction, easily confused words, and nuanced semantic distinctions resulting from word placement ("even")
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  33.82 KB
• Category:

  Exams
• Level:

  Form 3
• Subject:

  English
• Posted By:

  Caleb_Peter

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