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Paper 2: Reading
Candidates read a narrative passage (e.g. report, article, story) of approximately 700 words.
They then answer short answer questions testing their ability to understand the language (both explicit and implicit meanings).
Assessment Objectives
R1 Understand explicit meanings, through literal and
required information, such as similarities and differences, or advantages and disadvantages, or problems and solutions, or causes and effects, or actions and consequences. (Passage 1) a sequence or argument, identify conclusion, distinguish fact from opinion, and give a personal response to a theme in a text. (Passage 2)
If written in phrase than the point should be sensible e.g. Extermination carried out.
acceptable.
Spelling and grammatical errors are not penalised here.
Critical Skills
Short Question Answers: Write or distinguish Fact from Opinion
Identify Conclusion (T/F; Tick off the correct answer; write the conclusion)
Give Personal Knowledge/ Experience ( Do not quote any example from the passage)
Implicit Questions
Inferential: The reader is expected to think about the ideas given in the passage and drive a conclusion.
Your Own Words: The reader needs to look for the keywords in the passage and replace them using their synonyms. The number of marks tells the number of key words to be found. Writers Craft: Here the reader should mention the effect the writer wants to create through his words.
For further details: Visit CIE website and check marking scheme of 1123 for paper 2