Class 8 English Chapter 102: Practice Paper · Annual

What this paper is

One paper of 80 marks over all fifteen chapters of Poorvi. Three hours, closed book. Class 8 sits no board exam, so this is a rehearsal rather than a real paper. The point of a rehearsal is to find out what is not ready while there is still time.

How the 80 marks are laid out

Twenty one-mark questions with four options, then twelve two-mark questions and six three-mark ones. After those comes a case study worth 6 in four parts. Last are two six-mark questions, each of which asks you to put two chapters side by side.

How it is weighted

The half-yearly paper covered the first eight chapters, so this one leans towards chapters 9 to 15. Every chapter is asked about somewhere, though, and the earlier ones turn up in the six-mark questions as often as in the one-mark ones.

Sitting it properly

Spend your time by marks rather than by question number. Half an hour is enough for the twenty one-mark questions; each six-mark question deserves twenty minutes and two lines of planning before you write. Keep the book shut, because a paper sat with the book open measures nothing at all.

Marking it

Every written question carries a scheme that says where each mark sits. Use it exactly, and award nothing for an answer that is right with no reason attached. The two six-mark questions want a comparison, so an answer that describes both chapters well and never compares them cannot reach full marks.

What to do with the result

Write the chapter number beside every mark you dropped and add the losses up by chapter. Rank the chapters and keep the worst three. Then check the other direction too: tick off every chapter the paper asked about, and if one of them left no impression at all, go to that chapter first.