Study Skills

8 Grade 10 English questions on Study Skills, with worked marking schemes. 8 questions are available on this topic in full.

1. Question 1

   5 marks

   State five kinds of information, apart from the spelling, that a learner can obtain from a dictionary entry for a word.

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2. Question 2

   1 mark

   Njeri needs to find every page on which irrigation is mentioned in a 300-page reference book. No chapter of the book is titled 'Irrigation'. Which part of the book will take her to those pages most quickly?

   A. The glossary

   B. The preface

   C. The table of contents

   D. The index

   (1 mark)

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3. Question 3

   1 mark

   Which of the following shows the most effective note-making from a textbook chapter on soil conservation?

   A. Writing down only the chapter title and the page numbers it covers

   B. Writing the main ideas and their supporting details in one's own words under clear headings, using abbreviations

   C. Underlining almost every line of the chapter in the textbook with a coloured pen

   D. Copying out whole paragraphs from the chapter word for word so that nothing is lost

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4. Question 4

   1 mark

   Achieng has been given a six-page article from a county agricultural newsletter about avocado farming in Murang'a. She has only two minutes to decide whether the article is worth reading in full. Which reading technique should she use?

   A. Scanning, because she must pick out particular figures and dates

   B. Note-taking, because she must write down the points as she reads

   C. Intensive reading, because she must understand every sentence before deciding

   D. Skimming, because she must run her eyes quickly over the text to get its general message

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5. Question 5

   1 mark

   At the end of a project report on tea processing in Kericho, Kiprono lists, in alphabetical order by author, every book, journal and website he consulted while writing. This list is called:

   A. an appendix

   B. a glossary

   C. an index

   D. a bibliography

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6. Question 6

   4 marks

   Outline four steps a learner should follow in order to write a good summary of a newspaper article on plastic waste in Nairobi.

   (4 marks)

   Marking scheme

   1 mark for each step, up to 4. (1) Read the whole article once, quickly, to grasp its general message and purpose. (2) Read it again more slowly and identify the main idea of each paragraph, separating main ideas from examples, repetitions and illustrations. (3) Write the selected points in a rough draft, in the learner's own words and in a logical order, keeping within the given word limit. (4) Revise the draft: join the points with suitable linking words, check grammar, spelling and punctuation, and count the words. Accept 'underline or list the key points before drafting' for step 2 or 3, and accept 'study the instruction first to see exactly which aspect of the article is to be summarised and in how many words' as an alternative first step.

7. Question 7

   2 marks

   Distinguish between note-taking and note-making.

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8. Question 8

   3 marks

   Explain three ways in which drawing a mind map helps a learner to revise a topic.

   (3 marks)

   Marking scheme

   1 mark for each explained way, up to 3. (1) It shows at a glance how the main topic relates to its sub-topics, so the learner sees the structure of the whole topic rather than scattered facts. (2) It condenses a long chapter onto a single page, so revision is quicker and the material is easier to recall. (3) It uses key words, branches and colour rather than full sentences, and these visual cues aid memory. (4) New information can be added to a branch at any time without rewriting the whole set of notes. A bare list of three words with no explanation earns a maximum of 1 mark.

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