Freedom in the classroom drives the English Precis and Composition past paper 2023, a 20-plus-80 paper. The precis passage sets out three schools of thought on freedom in education: full freedom for children, full authority over them, and positions between the two. The comprehension passage asks why rich peoples report low happiness. It contrasts simple lives across most of humanity with wealthy North America and Europe and cites the 2012 Happy Planet Index. Q.5 gives candidates a punctuation text about Hodga, who dreams of ten gold pieces and wakes ready to settle for nine. Preposition blanks follow. Q.6 works with pairs of words, and the translation passage tells of a mountain flower whose scent restores lost eyesight.
What this paper contains
- Part-I (Q.1) — MCQs on the OMR sheet (20 marks)
- Q.2 — Precis of a passage on freedom in education, with a title (20 marks)
- Q.3 — Comprehension: a passage on simple living, wealth, and happiness (20 marks)
- Q.4 — Correct five of the following sentences (10 marks)
- Q.5 — (a) Punctuate a text about Hodga and the ten gold pieces (5 marks); (b) fill blanks with prepositions, five of eight (5 marks)
- Q.6 — Use five pairs of words in sentences (10 marks)
- Q.7 — Translate an Urdu story passage about a sight-restoring flower into English (10 marks)
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