ANSWER SCHEME

PEPERIKSAAN AWAL TAHUN | TINGKATAN 5

SMK SERI MANJUNG
BAHASA INGGERIS (KERTAS 2)

SECTION A
Question Answer Question Answer
1 C 9 A
2 D 10 C
3 A 11 A
4 A 12 A
5 B 13 B
6 A 14 D
7 A 15 B
8 B

SECTION B
16. World Happiness Report Update 2016
17. Sustainable Development Solutions Network
18. Denmark
19. Syria
20. suffered economic and political turmoil
21. suffered political trouble and violence
22. least satisfied with their lives / unsatisfied with their lives
(Accept any answer that suggests similar meaning)
23. a high degree of social support
24. money alone cannot ensure happiness / mere focus on financial well-being OR
economic growth cannot guarantee the happiness of the people
(Accept any answer that suggests similar meaning)
25. mingle with happy people / stay connected with happy people
(Accept any answer that suggests similar meaning)

* Accuracy in spelling and punctuation is MANDATORY.

SECTION C

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26. (a) The idea of him going to be an undergraduate / His next life journey as an
undergraduate
(b) The writer’s mum’s shout asking him to wake up for prayers.
27. i) Hold unto God
ii) Read his books / study
iii) Desist from evil
28. His father wants him to be independent
29. (a) He felt alone / He didn’t know anyone there / No familiar face around
(b) loomed
30. Action : Make new friends
(Accept any relevant answer)
Reason : He is alone and don’t know his way around the university.
(Accept any relevant answer)

31. SUMMARY
Content : 10 marks
Language : 5 marks
TOTAL : 15 marks
CONTENT POINT LINE / PARAGRAPH
CP1 : mum’s shout confirmed that he was accepted into the
Line 6 / Para 1
university
CP2 : mum always mentioned him in all the family prayers Line 9 / Para 2
CP3 : he became an oblation so that he will always be
Line 10 / Para 2
guarded or guided
CP4 : he got different advice from many people Line 14 / Para 3
CP5 : shy away from drinks Line 15 / Para 3
CP6 : not to look or talk to ladies Line 15 / Para 3
CP7 : always fear God Line 16 / Para 3
CP8 : not to join any cult group Line 16 / Para 3
CP9 : father reminded him that being a university student
Line 17 / Para 3
makes him an adult (idea of being independent)
CP10 : always stay true to God Line 18 / Para 3
CP11 : study hard Line 18 / Para 3
CP12 : stay away from evil / problem Line 18 / Para 3
CP13 : he had to take a bus for the first time in his life to go
Line 27 / Para 4
to the university
CP14 : father wants him to learn to be independent Line 25 / Para 4

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SECTION D
32. (a) (i) I think the note is from Lulu telling that she has run away.
(ii) Lulu’s mother probably felt very upset when she read the note and that is
why she crumpled it.
(b) The voices were probably Lulu’s voice and the boyfriend’s whom she had
run away with.
(c) Lulu probably did not take the rag-doll with her when she left because
she no longer has the need for a rag-doll since she is most probably a teenager.

33. (a) The sequences are as follow :-

E.g.:
It is early dawn. Dawan and Kwai are up very early. (0)
Dawan and Kwai talk about the unfairness of giving sacks of rice to the tax 5
collector.
Teacher announces that Dawan has won the scholarship. 10
Teacher and the students pretend they are having a Geography lesson when a 8
student spots the headmaster is heading to the class.
Dawan and Kwai sit on the rickety old bridge above the river and talk about 1
the scholarship which entitles the holder to free education in the City.
Teacher has a long and lively discussion with the students about the landlord
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taking away the sacks of rice as rent for their rice fields.
Their parents do not favour sending girls to school 4
Teacher discusses what the student who wins the scholarship should do for
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their village and society.
Dawan feels that she will not get the scholarship because she is a girl. 3
Teacher begins the discussion in the class about the sacks of rice the students
have seen underneath their houses in the morning waiting to be collected by 6
the tax collector.
Kwai plans to return and teach his father how to raise new crops and use
better fertilizers if he managed to get the scholarship and further his 2
education in the City.

(b) The answers are :-

i. It is special because they are expecting to get the results of the examination and
the name of the winner of the scholarship.

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ii. It is because Dawan goes to school a year later than Kwai. / It is because most
probably there is only one school with one class in the whole village.
(Accept any relevant answer)
iii. She does this because she knows that the general practice in the village is that of
gender inequality that is girls stand less chance of furthering education. So,
Dawan is not likely to do better than Kwai in the examination.
(Accept any relevant answer)
iv. They are rent for the landlord.
(Accept any relevant answer)
v. The landlord owns the land the farmers are farming.
(Accept any relevant answer)

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