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Read the passage below and then answer the questions that follow. (20 marks)

Many students think that learning only takes place in class. If students use two extra steps, most students will not forget what they learned in class. To achieve effective learning, students need to follow two extra steps in the three strategic learning processes.

The key to success is by following these three strategies. Review is essential to student success. Unless content is reviewed by students shortly after it is learned, it will soon be forgotten. To avoid forgetting what you learned, it is recommended to review daily.

It is also recommended to reduce large volumes of notes into point form and to paraphrase what you have learned. Other helpful tips include creating concept maps and diagrams; creating fact, concept or vocabulary cards and using visualization to better connect to what you learned. These are all important tools to helping students better understand and memorize lesson content.

The key to achieving academic success cannot be directly correlated to one specific area. Rather it requires students to be all-rounded in many different aspects. This includes attending class regularly to keep pace with the lessons. Falling behind in studies or homework can be detrimental to academic success and can induce stress onto students. Participating in class activities and discussions are also vital parts of learning and applying concepts learned. On the other hand, taking good, concise notes will always help in the long run when revising for tests and exams. To sum it all up, strategic learning is the password for many academic achievements.

Being exposed to knowledge is the first step in the journey, the fact that young scholars can learn and be a part of history is a phenomenal step in furthering their search to success. Reviewing notes, in the way the young individual wishes, by him/herself, or with a good friend, will help him/her to understand what has been learned in a way s/he understands. Lastly practice is a great way to memorize what has been learned, when practice achieves its full potential, the individual will not only be guaranteed a good mark, but also a way to view, wonder and think of things. Those three attributes will help scholars become more successful, but it is important to one as it is to the other, and every person should find the learning strategies effectual for him/herself and in extremely exceptional occasions even invent or innovate new strategies.

What does the writer fault in the students thinking according to the first paragraph? (2 marks)

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Explain the three strategies that are key to success. (6marks)

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Unless content is reviewed by students shortly after it is learned, it will soon be forgotten.

(Rewrite the sentence beginning with: If…) (2 marks)

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(f)Explain the meaning of the following words as used in the passage. (4marks)

Detrimental…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Correlated…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Effectual…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Exceptional………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

Read the following excerpt and answer the questions that follow.

“Yes, Papaai,” Resian said apprehensively. “I am here. Taiyo tells me you are calling me?”

“Yes, yes,” her father replied. “Please take a seat.”

“Yes, Papaai,” Resian repeated as she sat on a chair far away from her father.

“Come nearer…child,” her father said pleasantly.

“Why do you sit a mile away? Come nearer.”

Resian moved her chair hardly an inch from where it was and then she looked up into her

father’s face with eager expectation.

“If I do remember well,” her father began in a low even tone, “you will be nineteen in September this year, am I right”

“You are quite right, Papaai.” Resian answered eyeing him curiously. His face was unusually kind. His eyes held hers as he smiled broadly. That’s it!’ she thought triumphantly. “That must be it!

“You and I have not discussed important issues for a long time,” he said with a friendly chuckle that was intended to bring her closer to him. “I thought today would be the best day to break the news. Your future is very important to me, my dear child.”

Resian thought the concern in her father’s voice, rang false. She hesitated, but could not hold herself any more. The anxiety was too great.

“Papaai, is it Yeiyo or Taiyo who spoke to you?” she asked sensationally, thinking she was stating the obvious. But seeing her father’s face cloud, she added quickly.

“Who between them spoke to you about our enrolment at the Egerton University?”

“What are you talking about, child? Her father, who seemed dumbfounded, asked after a long and uncomfortable silence.

“Both Yeiyo and Taiyo promised to talk to you about it, and I thought she had.”

“What, in the name of God are you talking about, child?” he repeated, this time agitated and shaking his head vigorously. “No, I have never spoken to anybody about any of you enrolling at the university. Never! When I said, I wanted us to discuss your future, that isn’t what I meant at all. Of course not!” Resian looked at her father’s face enquiringly.

Place this excerpt in its immediate context. (4 marks)

What is so ironical in this passage? Explain with reference to elsewhere in the novel. (3marks)

“Your future is very important to me, my dear child” From elsewhere in the novel, explain why Ole Kaelo tells his daughter so. (3marks)

Discuss two character traits of Resian as brought out in this excerpt. (4marks)

Discuss any one major issue addressed in this excerpt? (2marks)

“Who between them spoke to you about our enrolment at the Egerton University? “Rewrite in the indirect speech. (1 mark)

Apart from irony, comment on any two other aspects of style evident in the excerpt. (4 marks)

Explain the meaning of the following words and expressions used in the excerpt. (4 marks)

Apprehensively……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Sit a mile away………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Hold herself…………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Agitated………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow. (20 marks)

Sympathy by Paul Laurence Dunbar

I know what the caged bird feels, alas!

When the sun is bright on the upland slopes;

When the wind stirs soft through the springing grass,

And the river flows like a stream of glass;

When the first bird sings and the first bud opens,

And the faint perfume from its chalice steals—

I know what the caged bird feels!

I know why the caged bird beats his wing

Till its blood is red on the cruel bars;

For he must fly back to his perch and cling

When he fain would be on the bough a-swing;

And a pain still throbs in the old, old scars

And they pulse again with a keener sting—

I know why he beats his wing!

I know why the caged bird sings, ah me,

When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,—

When he beats his bars and he would be free;

It is not a carol of joy or glee,

But a prayer that he sends from his heart’s deep core,

But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings—

I know why the caged bird sings

(Adapted from the poem by Paul Lawrence Dunbar

In American Negropoetry, edited by Arna Bontemps.

New York: Hill and Wang, 1974)

In your own words briefly explain, what the poem is about. (3 marks)

In note form, state what the poem talks about in each of the three stanzas. ( 3 marks)

What is the persona’s attitude towards the caged bird? (2 marks)

Discuss any two themes as brought out in the poem above? (4 marks)

Comment on any three aspects of style used in the poem above. (6 marks)

Explain the meaning of the following lines: ( 2 marks )

“And the faint perfume from its petals steals”.

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“And they pulse again with a keener sting”

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4. a) Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions given after each, Do not change the meaning. (5 marks)

She left the village crying with regret and shame. (Begin : Crying …)

The country has experience a bad drought this year. (Rewrite in the Superlative)

I do not want any more tea. (Begin: I would rather …)

She would have won the race were it not for the injury. (Begin: But …)

All the candidates passed their examinations. ( Begin: Not …)

b) Complete each of the following sentences using the correct form of the word in brackets.

(4 marks)

The artistes are ……………………………people about the importance of maintaining peace during elections. (sensitive)
The newly elected Member of Parliament was …………………………..grateful to the constituents for electing him. (true)
Justice Maraga is known for his strict……………………………….to the rule of law. (adhere)
It is against our culture to treat older people………………………………… (respect)

c) Complete each of the following sentences by filling in the blank spaces with the correct preposition. (3 marks)

The government plans to build a new bridge …………………………….the Indian Ocean.
The Chief Justice will preside …………………………..the swearing-in ceremony.
The ceremony was conducted in accordance…………………………….. the regulations.

d) Rewrite the following sentences, replacing the underlined word with a phrasal verb that has the same meaning. (3 marks)

Mutua needs to reduce his monthly expenses if he is to save anything.

She reported to the police that her house was burgled last night.

Incidences of poll violence have decreased because of the peace awareness campaigns across the country.

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