Exam Design:
1. All Learning outcomes addressed should be tackled & listed in the table
below with the question addressing each of them and added to the Answer
key page. For example
Learning Outcomes Question Number
1PSV11 spell words with common prefixes and suffixes (un- , dis- , -ful , -ly) Q 2,3
1Gp8 produce and expand simple and compound declarative, interrogative, imperative and Q 6,7,9
exclamatory sentences in response to prompts.
2. The questions should be designed and differentiated in a way that allows
students to demonstrate their learning. Teachers should consider issuing an
exam of what students have come to know, understand and able to solve so
all students should be able to score at least 60%.
3. Different types of questions to be included inside the paper as: 1) multiple
choice, 2) true/false, 3) matching, 4) short answer, 5) essay
4. Every exam paper should be marked out of 20 or its multiples (40, 80,…)
such that the final mark listed in the mark sheet is out of 20.
5. Exam questions should match with the content learnt and sent in the study
list.
Exam Editing:
1. The exam paper should have the following:
2. Cover page with all the data of exam (attached)
3. Font used:
16 Times New Roman for Headings
14 Times New Roman for question body
1. Every question should be in one page with enough space for draft/ answer
2. Every question should have a marking box beside the heading
3. “Copy & paste” is totally prohibited. All questions should be edited.
4. All drawing should be detailed & clear.
5. Pages are to be numbered (Current page/Total number of pages)
6. Page number should be at the center bottom of the page.
English
GRADE (1)
- Two papers to be designed for the exam one for the Reading& usage and the
second paper includes the writing part.
- The grade of the English paper is 20 marks.
- The duration of the exam is one hour.
English
GRADES (2-3)
Duration Paper 1 (1 hour) Paper 2 (1 hour)
Contents Reading Writing:
Total marks: 10 marks
Usage
Total marks: 30
GRADES (4-5 and 7)
Duration Paper 1(1 hour ) Paper 2 (1 hour )
Contents Reading Writing
Total marks: 20
Usage
Total marks: 20
GRADE (6) To follow the checkpoint exam standard
Duration Paper 1 ( 1 hour ) Paper 2 (1 hour )
Contents Non- fiction fiction
Total marks: 20 Total marks: 20
MATHEMATICS Grades (1- 7)
GRADE GRADES
GRADE 6,7
1,2,3 4,5
2 papers (each paper is 1
Duration 1 hour 1 hour
hour)
Approx. # of
30 30-45 30-45
questions
20 per paper then to be
Total Marks 20 20
divided
Calculator allowed Yes (in paper 2 only)
Procedure
1. Please ensure the hard copy submission of exam papers is done on the given
dates. The versions of the exams should be sent from teachers to HODs or
Academic Coordinators first for approval then from the Academic Coordinator
should sign it and hand to the Exams Coordinator.
Content
1. Two variants of each paper are to be submitted.
2. Academic Coordinators and Heads of Departments must ensure that the
examination papers are appropriately designed as per the agreed format,
proofed and reviewed in accordance with best practice.
3. Whilst it can be appropriate to recycle parts of old questions, questions from the
most recent CIE papers should not be copied verbatim.
4. Reasonable working space must be allowed on the test paper for all questions,
including those with multiple choice questions.
5. Reliability and validity of exams are to be taken into account.
Marking Criteria
1. Mark schemes must be made for each variant.
2. These should contain model solutions to problems, accompanied with how
many marks are to be awarded for each stage.
3. Also, mark schemes for essay-type questions are to be included, indicating how
marks are to be awarded.
4. Rubric to be followed for grading the writing part in English.
5. An analysis sheet will be handed from the Exams Coordinator to each teacher
inside the exam envelope. Teachers are responsible for filling the sheet and
finding which questions were the most convenient to the students abilities and
which were the most difficult.
Examination Security
1. Under no circumstances must the contents of examinations be revealed to any
person who is not a Paper Setter, subject teacher or Head of Department.
2. At all stages of their preparation, examinations must be prepared and stored only
on computers that are not accessible by other staff members of the school.
Additional Notes
Each exam should be a fair, balanced and appropriate assessment of the
learning objectives mentioned in the Study Lists.
Papers should be grammatically correct and worded in a way that will be
unambiguous to the candidates.
All typographical errors should be eliminated
Each paper should contain the correct number of questions, with the correct
number of marks
