Kindness directs intelligence in the English Precis and Composition past paper 2014. The precis passage argues that training human intelligence must grow empathy alongside it, so intelligence serves love, social morality, and survival. The comprehension passage compares the American and French revolutions. Two conflicts grew from the same Enlightenment theories a decade apart, yet they ended in radically different ways, and the passage asks why. The precis still carries its split marks: 20 for the precis and 2 for the heading. The note question holds its 20 marks, with topics such as “Actions speak louder than words” and “First deserve, then desire”. This paper drops narration and word pairs entirely. Idioms alone carry 10 marks at Q.5, and Q.6 asks candidates to correct only four sentences for 8 marks.
What this paper contains
- Part-I (Q.1) — MCQs: 20 marks
- Q.2 — Precis of a passage on intelligence, empathy, and love, with a heading (20+2 = 22 marks)
- Q.3 — Comprehension: a passage on the American and French revolutions (20 marks)
- Q.4 — Note of 250–300 words on one of the given topics (20 marks)
- Q.5 — Use five idioms in sentences (10 marks)
- Q.6 — Correct only four sentences (8 marks)
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