Culture wears two faces in the English Precis and Composition past paper 2013. The precis passage divides culture into an external, formal aspect and an inner, ideological aspect, and ties both to the structure of a society. The comprehension passage turns to China. It explains how Confucius, five hundred years before Christ, shaped a civilisation that looked back to wise rulers instead of forward to progress. The precis carries 22 marks here, 20 for the writing and 2 for the heading. This paper shrinks the vocabulary load: candidates use only four idioms and four word pairs, at four marks each. The note question keeps its 20 marks and sets topics such as “Revolution versus Evolution”. Correction and narration share Q.6 at five marks each.
What this paper contains
- Part-I (Q.1) — MCQs: vocabulary, one mark each (20 marks)
- Q.2 — Precis of a passage on the two aspects of culture, with a heading (20+2 = 22 marks)
- Q.3 — Comprehension: a passage on Confucius and Chinese civilisation (20 marks)
- Q.4 — Note of 250–300 words on one of the given topics (20 marks)
- Q.5 — (a) Use four idioms in sentences (4 marks); (b) use four pairs of words in sentences (4 marks)
- Q.6 — (a) Correct five sentences (5 marks); (b) change the narration of five sentences (5 marks)
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