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Baseline Assessment
Year 11 – First Language English

Choose one (1) question only:

Either
(1) Write a story that starts with the opening of a door to a room that you are not supposed to enter.
Or
(2) ‘The figure in the long, black coat.’ Use this as the title of a narrative.

Space for your plan:

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Baseline Assessment
Year 11 – Literature in English

Use the drama text, Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare to answer the following question:
<Act 2>
Viola/Cesario has just refused to take Olivia’s ring from Malvolio.
Explain what happened at the beginning that led to this. Then, explain the significance of this scene.

Space for your plan:

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Baseline Assessment
Year 10 – Literature in English

Ozymandias
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert … Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
(by Percy Bysshe Shelley)

Read the poem and write what the poem is about. Write down ALL ideas about what the poem might
mean. Remember to think of all ideas as valid and applicable. Don’t make assumptions; pay attention
to the language! Look for metaphors, similes, and figures of speech.
Here is a guide to order your response:
- Introduction – Write your first impressions of the poem
- Body - Talk about both the literal meaning of the poem or specific lines, and also what you
think it means on a deeper level. Things you can also talk about are tone, structure, rhyme etc.
- Conclusion - What have you learned from analyzing the poem? Why do you think the poet
wrote the poem?
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Baseline Assessment
Year 11 – Global Perspectives

Answer all the questions below:

(1) ‘Tourism brings jobs to local people.’

How could you test this claim? You should consider the types of information; sources of evidence or
methods you might use.

(2) ‘Access to clean water saves children’s lives.’

How could you test this claim? You may consider the types of information; sources of evidence or
methods you might use.

Imperial International School Ipoh

Baseline Assessment
Year 11 – Global Perspectives

Answer all the questions below:

(1) ‘Tourism brings jobs to local people.’

How could you test this claim? You should consider the types of information; sources of evidence or
methods you might use.

(2) ‘Access to clean water saves children’s lives.’

How could you test this claim? You may consider the types of information; sources of evidence or
methods you might use.