Items 1-5
Which of the following non-
Instructions: Read the following scenario
carefully and then answer Items 1-5
Your friend Simone is organizing a campaign
on Healthy Eating and you have agreed to
be the campaign manager. Simone has to
give a speech to the upper school students
at General Assembly.
1. To which of the following two
elements of the communication
process should Simone pay
MOST attention if her speech is
to be effective?
A. Noise and receiver.
B. Noise and feedback.
C. Message and receiver.
D. Conceptualization and
message.
2. You anticipate that some of the
students might easily forget
Simone’s message. Which of the
following actions would make
the message more memorable?
A. Using charts and graphs.
B. Using slogans and jingles.
C. Being as direct as possible.
D. Being as thorough as
possible.
3.
verbal communication methods
would be MOST effective in
helping Simone enhance her
presentation to the audience?
A. Dress.
B. Gestures.
C. Proxemics.
D. Chronemics.
4. Which of the following audience
reactions would indicate that the
upper school students are
receptive to the message?
A. Looking at her while she speaks.
B. Yawning at intervals.
C. Applauding whenever she makes
a point.
D. Steering at their phones.
5. If Simone is to avoid sending
mixed or unintentional messages
to her audience, to which aspect
of the communication process
should she pay special attention
to?
A. Noise.
B. Medium.
C. Encoding.
D. Conceptualization.
Items 6-9
8. The purpose of the snorkeler in
Instructions: Read the following
the advertisement is to:
advertisement carefully and then answer
A. Share the diverse fauna of
Items 6-9.
the islands.
B. Suggest the island offers fun
and adventure .
C. Serve as a universal symbol
of tourism.
D. Ensure that the composition
is balanced.

9. One possible reason for

including the tag line, “a
Synonym for paradise” is to:
A. Indicate that this destination
is unique for a vacation.
B. Celebrate geographical
diversity inclusive of coastal
areas.
C. Indicate national pride in the
country inclusive of beaches.
6. What type of advertising is
D. Suggest the island’s is the
featured in the picture?
idyllic place for a vacation.
A. Service.
B. Classified.
C. Corporate.
D. Government.

7. Which of the following appeals is

the MOST dominant in the
advertisement?
A. Status and humour.
B. Youth and pleasure.
C. Pleasure and adventure.
D. Patriotism and status.
Instructions: Study the following scenario Items 13-15
carefully and then answer Items 10-12.
Instructions: Study the following scenario
A sixth-form class was practicing to write and then answer Items 13-15.
expository essays. The students were
You are asked to speak to a group of twenty
exposed to the various features of
kindergarten children on the topic of
exposition and guidelines for producing this
environmental cleanliness.
type of essay in an academic context.
13. Which of the following would be
10. A student’s expository essay
MOST appropriate way share the
should typically aim to:
information with your audience?
A. Affect the emotions.
A. Panel discussion.
B. Recount experiences.
B. Animation and speech.
C. Enlighten and instruct the
C. A televised documentary.
reader.
D. A PowerPoint presentation.
D. Present the writer’s personal
viewpoint.
14. Which of the following is the
sequence that the presenter
should follow to successfully
11. Which of the following would be
complete the communication
the MAIN organizational strategy
process?
used in an expository essay on
A. Encoding the message,
the topic: “Types of luxury
selecting the channel,
vehicles”?
selecting audience,
A. Description.
disseminating the message.
B. Classification.
B. Encoding the message,
C. Chronological.
transmitting the message,
D. Comparison and contrast.
selecting channel,
disseminating the message.
12. Which of the following
C. Conceiving the message,
organizational features of
encoding the message,
language is typically NOT used in
selecting the channel,
exposition?
disseminating the message.
A. Emotive language.
D. Conceiving the message,
B. Facts and statistics.
interpreting the feedback,
C. Information from experts.
selecting audience,
D. Details supporting main
disseminating the message.
points.
15. What two organizational
features would BEST help your
audience to easily follow your
speech?
A. Editing and concluding.
B. Formatting and editing.
C. Researching and outlining.
D. Proofreading and
paragraphing.
Items 16-18
Instructions: Read the following extract
carefully and then answer Items 16-18.
Ten students from McIntosh High in
Jamaica are visiting Cuba to improve their
knowledge Spanish and Cuban culture. They
are being hosted by students from Jose
Marti High. When the students return to
school in Jamaica, they will be required to
write a report on their experience.
16. Which of the following contexts of
communication BEST describes the
interaction between the two groups of
students?
A. Public
B. Intercultural
C. Interpersonal
D. Organizational
17. In which of the following genres will
the report MOST likely be written?
1. Narrative
11. Exposition
111. Argument
A. I and II only.
B. I and III only.
C. II and III only.
D. I, II and III
18. While in Cuba the students attended
seminar. The guest speaker noticed
that many of the visitors seemed
restless during his presentation,
even though he was speaking
audibly. Which of the following was
NOT likely responsible for their
restlessness?
A. He was speaking too
fast.
B. He was speaking in a
monotone.
Items 19-22
Instructions: Read the following scenario
carefully and then answer Items 19-22.
During assembly, Sally, a Fifth-Form
student, gives the following speech on the
topic “Why I am proud to be from the
Caribbean”. While she giving her
presentation, some students keep covering
their mouths and snickering. However, Sally
does not notice this because her eyes are
glued to the paper from which she is
reading.

C. He was using many “A pleasant good morning. How are you,

unfamiliar words. friends and family? Let me see hands of
those who are having a good time. Come
D. He complemented his
on; let me see the hands of those who are
speech with
having a good time. Wave your hands and
projected slides.
say, ‘Yeah, yeah!’

Okay: I am proud to be from the Caribbean

because my parents are of African descent.
Caribbean is mostly black country;
therefore, most of the people are black. I
am one of them. My father black, my
mother black and my brother black. We all
black.”

19. At which stage of the

communication process does Sally
generate ideas for her speech?

A. Decoding

B. Interpreting

C. Conceptualizing

D. Giving feedback
20. Which of the following BEST explains 22. Which of the following BEST
why some students were “covering describes the type of discourse in
their mouth and snickering”? Sally’s speech?

A. It is argumentative.
A. They identified with
Sally. B. It is mainly
expository.
B. The presentation was
too boring. C. It is mainly
conversational.
C. They were angry at
D. It is a mixture of
Sally’s choice of
narrative and
words. argument.
D. They were amused by
Sally’s choice of
Instructions: Read the following situation
words.
carefully and then answer Items 23-24.

There is an election campaign being run for

21. Which of the following messages is a recently vacant parliamentary seat
being sent by Sally’s lack of eye Candidates are willing and able to use every
contact: means at their disposal to win the
widespread support of the voting public.
A. She is nervous.
23. Which of the following features of
B. She is well-prepared.
nonverbal communication would
C. She articulate candidates be LEAST likely to display
enough. when giving speeches to supporters
in a public space?
D. She did enough
research. A. Waving hands in the
air.

B. Shouting at the
audience.

C. Embracing a close
family member.

D. Smiling at the women

in the audience.
 24. Which of the following verbal 26. Instead of the words used in Frame 2,
communication elements can help what nonverbal behaviour could Barry’s
the candidates to effectively get father have used to convey the same
their message to the voting message?
population?
A. Shake his head.
A. Statistics and
sarcasm. B. Turn off the radio.
B. Party slogans and C. Hum under his breath.
emotive language.
D. Raise his brows quizzically.
C. Rhetorical questions
and party symbols.

D. Public service
announcements and
flyers.

27. Barry’s use of “cool” in Frame 5 is

example of

A. Slang

B. Jargon

C. Dialect
Item 25- 27
D. Profanity
Study the scenario shown above carefully
and answer items 25-27

25. What barrier to the communication

process is highlighted in the response of
Barry’s father in Frame2?

A. The singer’s voice.

B. The beat of the song.

C. The lyrics of the song.

D. The loudness of the music.

Study the image above and answer item 30. Karen uses one specific example of a pit
bull attack on someone to infer that all pit
28-29.
bulls are ferocious. What organization
28. The communication context illustrated strategy did Karen use.
in the diagram is:
A. Reflective reasoning
A. Intrapersonal
B. Inductive reasoning
B. Small group
C. Descriptive reasoning
C. Interpersonal
D. Deductive reasoning
D. Organizational

29. The breakdown in the communication

31. Brian sees a chair and sits on it. What
was caused by:
non-verbal communication did Brian react
i. Language issues to, which instructed him to sit on the chair.

ii. Technology issues A. Paralanguages

iii. Cultural issues B. Semantics

iv. Feedback issues C. Haptics

a. i only D. Semiotics

b. i and iii only

c. i, iii, iv End

d. i, ii, iii