St Andrew’s Secondary School

Sec 2 Express

Mid-Year Exam 2018 Information Sheet

Subject Scope/ Topics Format of Exam Marks

English Paper 1 ● Section A: Editing ● Section B: Situational Writing (Formal Letter of

Complaint) ● Section C: Continuous Writing (Choose from:

Argumentative; Personal Recount; Discursive essay questions)

10 30

30

● Paper 2 ● Section A: Visual Text ● Section B: Narrative Passage ● Section C: Informative Passage + Summary

5 20 25

Chinese ● Paper 1 ● Section 1: Email-writing (2 choose 1, Q1-Reply email; Q2-Write email )

● Section 2: Composition (3 choose 1, Q3 Narrative; Q4 Narrative; Q5 Scenario Based)

20

40

● Paper 2 ● Section 1: Fill in the blanks (10 sentences with blanks)

● Section 2: Cloze passage (1 passage, 10 MCQ questions)

● Section 3: MCQ Comprehension (3 passages, 10 MCQ Questions)

● Section 4: Open-ended Comprehension (2 passages, 7-8 open-ended questions)

10

10

20

30

● Paper 3 ● Listening Comprehension 20

Malay ● Paper 1 ● Email (Formal OR Informal) ● Composition Writing (Choose 1 out of 3)

20 40

● Paper 2 ● Language Usage ● Cloze Passage ● Comprehension (MCQ) ● Comprehension (OE)

20 10 10 30

Tamil ● Paper 1 ● Composition writing ● Email writing

40 20

● Paper 2 ● Idioms/proverbs ● Sentence structure ● Close passage ● MCQ comprehension ● Open-ended comprehension

10 10 10 10 30

Higher Chinese

● Paper 1

● Email (Choose 1 out of 2) ● Compo (Choose 1 out of 3)

20 60

● Paper 2 ● Fill in the vocabulary ● Cloze Passage ● Compre MCQ ● Grammar edit ● Sentence construction ● Open ended Compre ● Summary

10 10

10 10 6 22 12

Higher Tamil

● Paper 1 ● Section A: Email Writing Choose 1 out of 2. ● Section B: Composition Writing Choose 1 out of

3.

20 40

● Paper 2 ● Section A: 1. Word separation, 2. Editing 3. Complete Sentences 4. Cloze Passage;

● Section B: Comprehension I MCQ; ● Section C: Comprehension II open ended,

Summary

80

Maths ● Topics covered in Sec 1 (Chapter 1 – 16, excluding Chapter 12’s gradient of a linear graph)

● Topics covered in Sec 2 (Chapter 1 - 6)

● Paper 1 ● Paper 2

40 40

Biology ● Sec 1 topics (Diversity, Transport in Humans)

● All Sec 2 topics (Biological Molecules, Enzymes, Digestion, Sexual Reproduction in Humans, Ecology)

● MCQ ● Structured

20 50

Literature ● Section A: Sorry, Wrong Number

● Section B: The Boy in Striped Pajamas

● Section A: Annotation of Passage (5 marks) + Passage-Based Question (25 marks)

● Section B: Choose 1 out of 2 essay question (25 marks each).

30

25

History ● Chapter 5: Did the Japanese Occupation change the way people viewed Singapore?

● Chapter 6: What aspirations did the people have for Singapore after 1945?

● Chapter 7: What did independence mean for Singapore?

● Fill in the blanks ● Short Answer Questions ● Source-Based Questions ● Structured Essay Question

10 15 23 12

Art ● Drawing, Colouring and Inking

● Part 1: Background Painting (done in class) ● Part 2: Draw, colour and ink chosen themes.

Can refer to Preparatory Work 2 ● Part 3: Cutting & Pasting

Cut out the stimulus and paste firmly onto the painted background firmly using paper glue.

6

20

80