Population opens the English Precis and Composition past paper 2012. The precis passage attacks sociologists for dodging the population question and demands rational regulation of both the quality and the quantity of population. The comprehension passage compares the fear of death to a child’s fear of darkness, fed by stories of ghosts, thieves, and dying agony. This year redraws the paper. Part-I jumps from 10 marks to 20, Part-II falls from 90 to 80, and Part-II time drops to two hours and thirty minutes. The precis keeps its old weight, though: 20 marks plus 5 for the title. The note question offers five proverbs as topics, among them “Cut your coat according to your cloth”. Idioms stand alone at Q.5 with no word pairs beside them.
What this paper contains
- Part-I (Q.1) — MCQs: maximum 20 marks
- Q.2 — Precis of a passage on the population question, with a title (20+5 = 25 marks)
- Q.3 — Comprehension: a passage on the fear of death (20 marks)
- Q.4 — Note of 250–300 words on one of the given topics (20 marks)
- Q.5 — Use five idioms in sentences (5 marks)
- Q.6 — (a) Correct five sentences (5 marks); (b) change the narration of five sentences (5 marks)
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