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(SCIENCE PAPER 2)
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 Do and don’t during exam
• Be on time!
• Be prepared!
-Have your pens, pencils, eraser, other required
supplies with you.
• No eating or drinking in exam hall!
• No cell phones or music-playing devices in exam hall!
• Be courteous to others!
- Listen while others are speaking.
- Raise your hand if you wish to ask a question.
- Don’t be unnecessarily loud and boisterous.
- Stay on-task. Don’t distract people from their work.
 Understand questions
1. menyenaraikan ciri-ciri (characteristic)
2. menyatakan sebab atau alasan (give reason/ why)
3. menerangkan pernyataan (state/ give detail/ describe/
explain)menyenaraikan contoh2 (give examples)
4. menyatakan definisi (define/ give meaning)
5. menyatakan lokasi (where/ define location)
6. menyatakan proses (how)menyatakan fungsi (give function)
7. menyatakan pemerhatian (state observation)
8. beri cadangan (give suggestion/ state other ways to ...)
9. membanding (compare and contrast)
10. menyatakan jenis (define type)
11. membuat pengiraan (show calculation)
12. menyatakan perkaitan (state relationship)
13. membuat andaian (give prediction)
 Question 1

Test basic knowledge.

 • Able to
use the
words in
the box to
state the
situation
of the pair
√ √ √ of balls.

[3 marks]
 • Able to (√) in
the boxes
√ below the
items that
produce
electrostatic.

√
• Able to (√) in the correct box the meaning of
electrostatic
Question 2
• Able to state
what happen to
the size of the
silica after
stirring.

• Suggested
answers:
1. No change
//Tiada
perubahan
2 . Unchanged
//Tidak
berubah
3 . Same // Sama
 1. Silicon // Silika
2. Oxygen // Oksigen

Able to state one property of silica

Suggested answers:
1 . Does not dissolve // Tidak terlarut
2 . Insoluble // Tidak larut
3 . Not soluble in water // Tidak larut dalam air
(i) Able to state the
effect of heating on
lead sulphide

Suggested answers:
Heat breaks down lead
sulphide.

(ii) Able to name gas

Q
Answer:
Sulphur dioxide
Question 3

Analysing
• Able to state two
benefits the
organism gets
from the
interaction

Suggested answers :
1. Gets a place to
grow
2. Helps to get
sunlight

[Accept any
reasonable answer]
(i) Able to name
interaction Y

Answer
• Prey-predator //
Mangsa dan
pemangsa

(ii) Able to state one

advantage of prey-
predator

Suggested answers:
1. Does not affect
human's health .
2. Does not affect or
kill other organisms
3. Does not cause
pollution
4. Not costly //cheap
(iii) Able to explain why
guppy fish is placed in a
pond.

Suggested answers
1. To control the
population of larvae
2. Acts as a biological
control
[Accept any reasonable
answer]

(iv) Able to differentiate

between mutualism and
parasitism

Suggested answers:
Mutualism gives benefit to
both organisms but the host
is harmed in parasitism .
Question 4
Able to state the
type of energy
produced by all the
activities.

Answer :
Heat energy
(i) Able to state the
changes on state of the
candle

Suggested answers:
Solid
Liquid
solid

(ii) Able to state the

physical process of P
Answer:
Melting

(iii) Explain what happens

to the candle particles
during process P

Suggested answer:
Vibrate faster
Able to explain what happens to the water particles during
the process of making ice cubes.

Suggested answers
1. Water particles release heat energy.
2. The kinetic energy decreases .
3. The particles becomes closer together
[Any two]
Question 5

Comparing
Inferring
Able to compare the taste of the two food

Answer
• Lemon is sour, bitter gourd is bitter // Limau masam, peria pahit
(i) Able to name
the gas produced in
the activity

Answer:
Hydrogen gas

(ii) Able to give one

reason why lime
juice is able to
remove rust from
the rusty knife

Suggested answer:
Lime juice reacts with
metal
Able to state
one property
of calcium
hydroxide

Suggested
answers:
1. Calcium
hydroxide is
slightly
soluble in
water II
2 . Calcium
hydroxide is
an alkali
(ii) Able to explain the
process that occur
in the reaction

Suggested answer:
1. Acid reacts with
alkali
2. Form water and
salt.

(iii) Able to complete

the equation by
giving the product
of the reaction

Answer:
Sodium chloride
Able to state one importance of using toothpaste.

Suggested answers

1. Prevents teeth decay.

2. Neutralises the acid that is formed (by the decomposition of food
residue ).
Question 6
(i) Suggested
answers :
1. Increases the
yield of crops.
2.Improves the
characteristic
crop.
Suggest one way
(ii) Removes /Cuts all the anthers.

(iii) Able to give one reason for the answer in 6(a)(ii)

Prevents the plant from producing its own pollen grain
(i) Able to make one
suggestion to
increase
cross-pollination

Suggested answers:
1. Use vibration
method
2. Use external
pollinated

(ii) Transfers the pollen

grain from one plant
to the stigma of
another plant
• Able to explain how the
situation helps to increase
the yield of fruits

• Suggested answers:

• 1. Honey bee helps in the

process of pollination
•
• 2 . Honey bees acts as the
agent of pollination

• 3. More fruits develop

form /after pollination

• [Accept any two

reasonable answers]
Part B
Question 7
Able to state how the
students stand

Suggested answers

P : Stands on one leg

Q : Stands on two
R : Stands on one leg
S : Stands on two
Able to state one inference based on the
observation.

Suggested answers

1. Q is more stable because he stands on two legs

//spreads his legs // his base area is wide
2. R is less stable because he stands on one leg //
his the base area is small
Able to relate the relationship between the way the student
stands and the stability

Suggested answers:
1. The bigger the base area, the more stable (vice versa)
2. Base area affect the stability
3. The way the student stands affects the stability
Question 8
Experiment
 Able to state
one
difference
based on the
observation

Suggested
answer:
• The
grasshopper
in J died but
the
grasshopper
in K is still
alive
• Able to make one inference based on observation in 8(a)(i)

Suggested answers:
I. The grasshopper in J died because there is no air //oxygen
2. The grasshopper in K still alive because there is air //oxygen
Able to state the relationship
between the size of container and the
time taken for the candle to
extinguish

Suggested answer:

The bigger the size of the container,

the longer the time taken for the
candle to extinguish (vice versa)