Summary

• Description:

  The MS Word document comprises the Form 3 English Paper 2 End Term 2 2025 Exam with Marking Scheme. The PDF version is also available upon your request. The marking scheme is in a different document.

  The examination is scheduled for a duration of 2 hours and 30 minutes, and candidates are instructed to answer all questions in the paper. The entire exam is marked out of a total of 80 marks.

  The paper is structured into four main sections:

  • Comprehension (20 marks)
    • This section is based on a passage about using stylish headboards to improve the look of a bedroom.
    • It suggests various creative ideas, such as reupholstering with new fabric , painting wooden headboards , using quilts or rugs , creating a bookshelf headboard , or using mirrors for small rooms.
    • Questions assess understanding, inference, vocabulary in context, and grammatical manipulation like adding a question tag.
  • Excerpt (25 marks)
    • This part features a tense dialogue between a journalist, Ms. McKenzie, and an author, Dr. Afolabi.
    • The questions test the candidate's understanding of the excerpt's plot, character analysis (of Dr. Afolabi), stylistic devices, and vocabulary such as 'vulnerable', 'pessimistic', 'defensive', and 'third-rate'.
    • It also probes for knowledge of the broader novel, asking about development strategies.
  • Poem (20 marks)
    • Candidates are required to analyze the poem "I WENT TO CHURCH".
    • The poem describes a speaker who prays for friends and foes, including a soldier he has wronged by having an affair with the soldier's wife.
    • Questions focus on the poem's theme, the speaker's character traits, poetic devices, the meaning of specific lines, tone, and mood.
  • Grammar (15 marks)
    • This section contains a series of discrete grammar questions.
    • Tasks include rewriting sentences in the passive voice and starting with "Hardly..." , supplying question tags , replacing words with phrasal verbs , filling in blanks with correct word derivations , removing gender-sensitive language , and using the correct prepositions.
• Category:

  Exams
• Level:

  Form 3
• Subject:

  ENGLISH

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