STD 7 English: Guidelines for the English paper

GUIDELINES FOR ATTEMPTING THE ENGLISH PAPER

FIRST UNIT TEST STD7 ( 2015)

29/7/2015

2.. READ AND UNDERSTAND THE QUESTION BEFORE YOU ANSWER.

3. WITH REGARD TO PARAGRAPH WRITING PAY ATTENTION TO HINTS GIVEN TO FORM THE PARAGRAPH.

FOR EXAMPLE HOW TO BEGIN THE PARAGRAPH EITHER WITH A

QUOTATION OR AN EXCLAMATION OR A PROVERB AND SO ON.

DO NOT FORGET YOUR PUNCTUATION MARKS.
MAKE THE RIGHT USE OF CAPITAL AND SMALL LETTERS.
COPY THE CORRECT Q.NO.
AVOID CANCELLATIONS AND UNTIDY WORK OR USE OF ANY CORRECTION INK.
BLUE INK COLOUR IS THE STANDARD COLOUR TO BE USED FOR ATTEMPTING THE PAPER.
WHEN IDENTIFYING A WORD FROM THE PASSAGE DO NOT CHANGE THE FORM OF THE WORD. COPY AS IT APPEARS IN THE PASSAGE.

10. FOLLOW THE RULES OF THE RHYME SCHEME.

11. WHILE WRITING THE RHYME SCHEME DO NOT LEAVE ANY GAPS OR USE COMMAS OR A DASH. JUST WRITE THE ALPHABETS CLOSE TO EACH OTHER.

FOR EXAMPLE – THE RYHME SCHEME OF THE FIRST STANZA IS

ababcd.

12. BE AWARE OF THE TIME LIMIT OF THE PAPER.

13. READ THE WHOLE QUESTION PAPER TO SEE THAT IT IS COMPLETE FOR THE MARKS ALLOTED.

14. ANSWER GRAMMAR QUESTIONS BY REWRITING THE SENTENCE AND THEN GIVING THE ANSWER.

15. AVOID USING SHORTCUT METHODS TO ANSWER THE PAPER.

16. CARRY ALONG YOUR OWN STATIONARY. AVOID BORROWING.

17. IT IS ADVISABLE TO CARRY TWO OR THREE PENS.

18 .BE PREPARED WITH LANGUAGE STUDY AND LANGUAGE SKILL FROM THE TEXT BACK EXERCISES OF THE CHPTS. AND POEMS SET FOR THE PAPER.

19. STUDY THE MEANINGS IT WILL HELP YOU IDENTIFY WORDS IN THE POEM OR PASSAGE.

20.ENTER ALL THE DETAILS IN THE MAIN ANSWER BOOKLET AND THE SUPPLEMENTS BECAUSE THIS WILL HELP YOU AVOID ANXIETY.

GIVE YOUR BEST AND I CAN ASSURE YOU THAT GOOD SCORES WILL BE YOURS.

WISHING MY DEAR BOYS ALL THE BEST !

ELIZABETH SOARES

STD 7 English