CSEC English A Paper 1 Exam Structure

Section one (1) is made up of twenty (25) separate multiple-choice questions. In this section, you will be tested on the following skills:

• Comprehension
• Grammar
• Punctuation
• Paragraphing

Section two (2) is made up of forty (35) multiple-choice reading comprehension questions based on your understanding of five (5) passages. The passages will consist  of,

1) One poem
2) One narrative extract
3) One expository extract
4) one persuasive abstract ( e.g. an advertisement, speech or letter to the editor)
5) one visual abstract (e.g. a table, diagram, map, chart, cartoon or advertisement)
In this section, you will be tested on the following skills:

• Comprehension
• Inference
• Analysis
• Evaluation

Each question on this paper is worth one (1) mark. You should attempt to answer ALL 60 multiple choice questions on this paper. (If you don’t know an answer then  guess!)