Sample English First Paper Question-3for class - x

 Cadet College

Test Examination-2010

Class : X

English-First Paper

Part-A: Reading test (40 marks)

(Read the text carefully and answer the questions following it):

Strategy is an appropriate word to use for your approach to the examination on the day. It has been said that about fifty percent of your chances of success relate to your examination skill rather than to your subject knowledge.

So check and double check your exam dates and times. Check what you are allowed and what you are not allowed to take in with you and have these ready the day before. Budget your time. Do not waste time elaborating adequate answers if you ought to be moving to the next question. Always attempt to answer all the questions.

Follow the instructions. It is a good idea to double check this before the exam. Read through the whole question paper before starting to write. Take each question as you come to it and think how you might cope with it. Then move to the next question and do the same again. By the time you get to the last question, you will have found the questions easier than they seemed at first glance. Spend at least five minutes per question thinking about and planning your answer. This is never a waste of time.

Underline the key words in the question that indicate what you are required to do. Again it is useful half way through writing the answer, to check back that you are doing what you should. Make your Answers legible. You can’t change your handwriting but if it is very tiny or very large use double spacing to make it easy on the eye for the reader.

1. Chose the best answer from the alternatives:                                                                                 5

a) Strategy is a ----------

i) Memory test for the exam

ii) Test of activeness.

iii) Skill for exam.      

iv) Syllabus for exam.

b) Beside subject knowledge, -------------- helps a student succeed in the exam.

i) Reading attentively.

ii) Learning by heart.

iii) Examination skill.

iv) Memorizing properly.

c) Before starting to write an examinee should ------------

i) Write.

ii) Memorize.

iii) Underline.

iv) Read through.

d) The word legible does not stand for -------------

i) Clear.

ii) Hazy.

iii) Distinct

iv) Understandable.

e) It is not waste of time -------------

i) Thinking about and planning your answer.

ii) Checking through your answer.

iii) Writing the numbers of the questions.

iv) Moving on the next question.

2. Write whether the statements are true or false. If false, give the correct answer.                          5

a) It is meaningless to check back half way through writing an answer.

b) You should keep all necessary things ready the day before the exam.

c) An examinee should start writing the answer as soon as he gets the question in hand.

d) If you read the question paper thoroughly, you will find it more difficult than it seemed at the first glance.

e) 50% of a student’s success depends on the examination skill.

3. Fill in each gap in the following passage with a suitable word from the box. There are more words than necessary.                                                                                                                        5

Budget	Move	Turn	Cope	Dates	Begin
Last	Easier	Answer	Check	Read	Allowed

Exam strategies (a) ------------- with the beginning of the exam day. It begins with checking and double checking of the exam (b) --------------- and time. One should check what he is (c) ----------------- and what he is not allowed to take with. Then one should (d) ---------------- one’s time. Before starting to write (e) ------------------- an examinee should (f) -------------- through the whole question paper. He or she should take each question as it comes to him or her and think how he / she might (g) ----------------- with it. Then he / she should (h) --------------- on to the next question. By the time he / she will get it the (i) ----------------- question, he / she will find it (j) ------------------ than he/ she found it earlier.

4. Read the passage in ‘A’. Now write a paragraph based on the information about strategy taken for the examination. Use the clues in the box below. Write the information in a logical sequence as it appears in the text. The paragraph should not exceed 70 words.                                                         5

Budget

Skill

Check

Spend

Underline

5. Answer the following questions in your own words.                                                                     5

a) What does the text deal with?

b) What should a student keep in mind in the examination hall?

c) Why should a student underline the key words in a text?

d) Why should the students budget their time?

e) Why should an examinee use double spacing?

6. Fill in each gap with a suitable word of your own based on the information from the text in ‘A’.                                                                                                                                                           5

An examinee needs to (a) --------------- to answer all the questions and to (b) ------------ the instructions. It is a good (c) -------------- to (d) ------------------ through the entire question paper before (e) --------------- the answers. Then what he has to do is to (f) ------------ the (g) ------------------ words as to know what he (h) ------------- asked to do (i) ----------. Answers are of course, to be made (j) ---------------.

7. Read the text in ‘A’ again. Imagine you are an examinee. Now write in about 70-80 words stating what you should do and what you should not do in the exam hall.                                                       5

8. Read the passage in ‘A’ again. Now write the main ideas in not more than five sentences.                                                                                                                                                                     5

Part-B: Vocabulary test (20 marks)

9. Fill in each gap in the following passage with a suitable word from the box. There are more words than necessary.                                                                                                                                    10

Overcome	Who	Written	Exceptional	Conquering	Highest
Largest	By	Courage	There	Creatures	Which

Man is the supreme being of all (a) --------------. Man has courage by (b) ---------------- he can do anything destructive or constructive. In his mind, (c) -------------- is the fascination of (d) --------------- anything difficult. Hillary and Tenzing were not also an (e) ------------- from it. They were not daunted (f) ------------------- difficulties and dangers. All the dangers were (g) --------------- by them to conquer the (h) ----------------- peak in the world. For their (i) ----------------- and hardship, their names have been (j) --------------- in history.

10. Complete the following passage using suitable words. Use only one word for each gap.           10

The proverb says that God helps (a) -------------- who help themselves. A man who (b) ---------------- on his own ability and does (c) --------------- work by himself is (d) --------------- by God. Such a man is (e) ---------------- crowned with success. This (f) ---------------- virtue creates in him the confidence, which is (g) ----------------- for success in life. (h) ------------- is a self confident man (i) -------------- reaps the fruit of his labor in (j) -------------.

Part-C: Writing test: (40 marks)

11. Read the following table and make ten correct sentences:                                                           10

Kazi Nazrul Islam Nazrul His parents His genius His poem “Bidrohi” He	Could not Is called Made Died Joined Was born Were Is Came was	The army as a soldier in his early youth.
		One of the greatest Bengali poets.
		Of a poor family.
		In Dhaka in 1976.
		Him famous overnight.
		The rebel poet.
		Kazi Fakir Ahmed and Jaheda Khatun.
		Continue his studies after class ten because of his poverty.
		Evident in singing songs and composing them since his boyhood.
		On 24th May, 1899, at Churulia in the district of Burdwan, West Bengal.

12. Rearrange the following sentences according to sequence and rewrite tem in a paragraph:        10

a) Coming back, Raju was upset to see that half of his egg had gone.

b) Although Meena had picked the mango, her mother gave the larger share of the fruit to Raju.

c) Mithu was not pleased to see that.

d) She picked the mango and took it to her mother.

e) Meena felt very disappointed.

f) One day Meena and her parrot Mithu climbed a tall tree to pick a mango.

g) It put half of the egg into Meena’s plate.

h) At dinner, Meena noticed that Raju as usual had got an egg but she did not.

i) While they were outside washing their hands, Mithu divided the egg into two.

j) Their mother wanted to see if the children had washed their hands before taking their meal.

13. Write a paragraph in about 100 words on “A School Magazine” answering the following questions:                                                                                                                                        10

a) What is a school magazine?

b) What does it contain?

c) How is it published?

d) How are the writings selected?

e) Why is a school magazine important?

14. Suppose you are Anik. Write a letter to your friend telling him what you intend to do after the S.S.C. exam.                                                                                                                                      10

Or

Write a composition in about 200 words on “Tree Plantation”. Use the following clues:

• Benefits we get from trees.
• Effects of deforestation.
• Necessity of tree plantation.
• Efforts needed for tree plantation.