FORM TWO NATIONAL ASSESSMENT (FTNA): NEW ENGLISH EXAMINATION FORMAT

Form Two National Assessment (FTNA) will consist of one (1) paper of 2:30 hours duration. There will be 10 questions distributed in sections A, B, C and D. Students will be required to answer all questions in each section.

SECTION A: COMPREHENSION AND SUMMARY
There will be two (2) questions in this section.
1. Question one (1) will have two parts; part (a) will involve reading a passage and respond to 5 short answer items and part (b) will involve reading the same passage
and responding to 5 True/False items. Each short answer in part (a) will weigh two (2) marks; while each True/False item in part (b) will weigh one (1) mark.
2. Question two (2) will involve reading a short passage and transferring information to a table or filling-in-blank spaces. Each item
in question two will weigh one (1) mark. The whole section will carry
twenty (20) marks.

SECTION B: LANGUAGE USE
The section will consist of three (3) questions.
3. One question will be on
matching Items.
4. Second question will be on jumbled items, and
5. Thir question will on
composition/letter writing.
The matching and jumbled items will carry five (5) marks each, while the questions on composition/letter writing will weigh ten (10) marks. The whole section will comprise twenty (20) marks.

SECTION C: PATTERNS AND VOCABULARY
The section will have a total of three (3) questions designed to test the students’ ability to use different vocabulary items and language patterns in different communicative situations.
6. Question 6 will require students to fill in the blanks.
7. Question 7(a) will require students to fill in the blanks.
These questions will carry five (5) marks each.
Questions 7(b) will require students to re-write or transform sentences.
8. Questions 8(a) & (b) will require students to re-write or transform sentences.
These questions will weigh ten (10) marks each.
The section will comprise forty (40) marks.

SECTION D: READING PROGRAMME
There will be two (2) questions (Questions 9 & 10) designed to test the students’ ability to analyse/explain content of simple English readers and poems that are recommended in the reading programme.
The whole section will carry twenty (20) marks.

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    1. Thank you too! Bit by bit, we will go far from this point.

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  2. Thank you for this. Bit by bit, we will reach the best levels as far language teaching and learning is concerned.

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    1. Thank you too Abeid! Together we can build something big!

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