Use this ZIMSEC O-Level English Language November 2013 marking scheme for checking answers, revision, and exam preparation in Zimbabwe.
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This is the ZIMSEC O-Level English Language marking scheme from November 2013. It shows how marks are awarded, so you can mark your own answers.
SECTIONA
Nov 2013
Question 1: $\quad 11$ marks $(1+1+1+1+1+2+2+2)$
From Paragraph 1
"greatest"
1 (a)
ACCEPT: supreme
Excess denies. Where the word is in a phrase or sentence the answer must be underlined or otherwise highlighted e.g. by underlining, positioning or quotation marks. Give 0 (w) for mis-spelling, whether or not a new word is created.
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(b) "what may determine the extent of a group of young cheetahs' territory"?
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ACCEPT: the availability of game -
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(c) (i) "... four consecutive words..."
ACCEPT: ... swift bursts of speed.
Excess denies the mark. 'swift burst of speed' $=0$
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(ii) "...evidence that proves the fierce nature of conflicts between nomadic and territorial males..."
ACCEPT: killed him with one bite to the neck / The three territorial male cheetahs attacked and killed one male nomadic cheetah with one bite to the neck.
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From Paragraph 5
(d) "... the intruders were routed..."
ACCEPT: ${ }^{\text {WTTERYN }}$
Abschartely
fully/completely/totally/thoroughly defeated/Sus Auc
TROUNCED ONERRUNERED
(c) "... why females should be nomadic..."
B LEE O
CRACRES
ACCEPT: 1: In search $\stackrel{\mathcal{O}}{\mathcal{A}}$ : prey/hunting for animals/looking for food.
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7. searching for a safe place in which to rear their cubs
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NB: Lift of the sentence 'Females are nomadic ... to rear their cubs.' $=1$ mark
M.B Answers ease come in and
ORDER.
ACCERTA CANDISATES NAMABERANG.
- Ansoner IN OND SEXT TEXLE- I MALK \& EPARATE Answeres
2 MARKS.