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MINISTRY OF EDUCATION

FIJI YEAR 10 EXAMINATION 2017

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SECTION A [25 marks]

There are two questions in this section. Answer all the questions.

QUESTION 1 FORMAL WRITING (15 marks)

Spend about 25 minutes on this question. Write the letter of your choice
and the title of your writing in the spaces provided below.
Use 180 to 190 words.

CHOICE

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Write your Expository Essay or Speech or Book Report or Letter in

the space given below. (13 marks)

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Plan Intro. Content
2 1 5
Conc. Style Accuracy
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QUESTION 2 PERSONAL WRITING (10 marks)

Use 140 to 150 words.

Spend about 10 minutes on this question. Write the letter of your choice
and the title of your writing in the spaces provided below.

CHOICE

TITLE ________________________________________________________________________

Write your plan in the space given below. (1 mark)

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SECTION A (continued)

Write your Conversation or Newspaper Report or Descriptive

Essay or any Other Style of Personal Writing in the space given below. (9 marks)
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SECTION B [45 marks]

QUESTION 3 MASS MEDIA, LIBRARY and DICTIONARY (10 marks)

Part I Mass Media (3 marks)

1.
Difference between
Magazine Newspaper

(1 mark)
2.
Similarity between
Magazine Newspaper

(1 mark)

3. ___________________________________________________________ (1 mark)

Part II Library (3 marks)

1.

Author Card Catalogue Corresponding information

Number of pages in the book

Call number

Name of publisher

Title of the book

Author’s surname

Height of the book

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Part III Dictionary (4 marks)

1. Part of Speech: abstract1 : _____________________________________

abstract2 : _____________________________________ (1 mark)

2. Long form of: i) OPP _____________________________________

ii) SYN ______________________________________ (1 mark)

3. _____________________________________________________________ (1 mark)

4. ________________________________________________________________ (1 mark)

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SECTION B (continued)

QUESTION 4 COMPREHENSION (15 marks)

Passage I (10 marks)

A. Multiple-Choice Questions

Circle the letter of the best answer.

1 A B C D

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Passage II (5 marks)

B. Multiple-Choice Questions

Circle the letter of the best answer.

1 A B C D

2 A B C D

3 A B C D

4 A B C D

5 A B C D 5

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QUESTION 5 LANGUAGE I (10 marks)

Multiple-Choice Questions

Circle the letter of the best answer.

1 A B C D

2 A B C D

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QUESTION 6 LANGUAGE II (10 marks)

Sentence Error Correction

1. Not much visitors attended Filipe’s 21st
birthday party due to the bad weather.
2. One of the teacher in my school was
robbed last night on his way home.
3. I have three sisters, Vika, who is a
teacher, is the older.
4. The students were asked to sacrificed
their time in studying for the test.
5. The farmer’s goats and pigs was stolen
from his farm last weekend.

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SECTION C LITERATURE [30 marks]

There are four questions in this section. Answer any two questions.
Each question is worth 15 marks.

Write your answers in the appropriate space that is allocated for each
question.

QUESTION 7 SHORT STORIES (15 marks)

Part I

Extract A

(a) Title ______________________________________________________ (1 mark)

(b) ___________________________________________________________ (1 mark)

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Extract B

(a) ______________________________________________________________________________
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(1 mark)

(b) ______________________________________________________________________________
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(1 mark)

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Part II Short Answer Questions

Use your knowledge of the short stories to answer questions given below.

(a) Title ___________________________________________________

Author _________________________________________________ (1 mark)

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QUESTION 8 NOVEL (15 marks)

Part I

Extract A

(a) we refers to
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(b) they refers to

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SECTION C (continued)

Extract B

(a) sir refers to

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Part II Short Answer Questions

Use your knowledge of the novel to answer questions given below.

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QUESTION 9 DRAMA - A Child for Iva (15 marks)

Part I

Extract A

(a) X is ___________________________________________________ (1 mark)

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Extract B

(a) X is _______________________________________________________ (1 mark)

(b) ______________________________________________________________________________
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SECTION C (continued)

Part II Short Answer Questions

Use your knowledge of the play to answer questions given below.

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QUESTION 10 POETRY (15 marks)

Either Part I

Extract A

(a) Title _________________________________________________________ (1 mark)

Poet _________________________________________________________ (1 mark)

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Extract B

(a) you refers to _______________________________________________________________

(1 mark)

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(c) _____________________________________________________________________________
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SECTION C (continued)

Short Answer Questions

Use your knowledge of one of the poems to answer questions given below.

(a) Title ________________________________________________________________________

Poet ________________________________________________________________________
(1 mark)

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(c) One style used in the poem _________________________________________________

An example _________________________________________________________________
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Or Part II Reading a Poem (15 marks)

The Moon by Robert Louis Stevenson

(a) ____________________________________________________________________________
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(e) _____________________________________________________________________________

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(f) ______________________________________________________________________________

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(g) her refers to

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ii) ___________________________________________________________ (1 mark)

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INDEX NUMBER

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FOR MARKER’S USE

Sect.
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