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Grade 12 English model exam, 2016 E.C. (2024)

A model exam set in 2016 E.C. to prepare Grade 12 students for the English entrance exam, in the same format. It is practice, and it is not the entrance exam paper itself. Every question comes with the correct answer and a worked explanation.

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  • 2016 E.C. model exam

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  • 113 questions with answers

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Question 1

often / to quite/I/ dream/ my job.

  1. A.I dream often to quit my job.
  2. B.my job often dream to quit.
  3. C.I quit my job to dream
  4. D.I often dream to quit my job.
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Answer: D I often dream to quit my job.

Why

The scrambled words are correctly arranged in option D to form the grammatical sentence 'I often dream to quit my job' (correcting the typo 'quite' to 'quit').

Question 2

Such/ It/is/ that/ delicious meal/everything/ate/we.

  1. A.It is that such delicious meal everything we ate.
  2. B.It is everything we ate that such delicious meal.
  3. C.We ate a delicious meal it is that such everything.
  4. D.It is such a delicious meal that we ate everything.
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Answer: D It is such a delicious meal that we ate everything.

Why

Option D uses the consecutive 'such... that' structure correctly to say, 'It is such a delicious meal that we ate everything.'

Question 3

Mind/would/me/to /lend/money/some?

  1. A.Would you me mind to lend some money?
  2. B.Would you me to lend mind some money?
  3. C.Would you mind to lend me some money?
  4. D.Lend me some money would you mind?
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Answer: C Would you mind to lend me some money?

Why

Option C is the only choice that logically arranges the words into a polite request form ('Would you mind...'), despite the minor grammatical issue of using an infinitive 'to lend' instead of a gerund 'lending'.

Question 4

Late/ to be/I/to my friend/ apologized

  1. A.my friend to be late I apologized
  2. B.my friend apologized to be late I
  3. C.I apologized to my friend to be late
  4. D.I late to my friend apologized.
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Answer: C I apologized to my friend to be late

Why

The scrambled words are correctly arranged in option C to form 'I apologized to my friend to be late.'

Question 5

1. Diseases can also be caused by a lack of hygiene. 2. Other diseases that are caused by insects are yellow fever, bilharzias .... Etc. 3. For example, malaria is caused by a certain type of mosquito. 4. Many diseases are caused by insects.

  1. A.4,3,2,1
  2. B.4,1,3,2
  3. C.4,2,1,3
  4. D.1,4,2,3
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Answer: A 4,3,2,1

Why

The paragraph flows logically from the general statement (4) to a specific insect-borne disease example (3), then other insect-borne diseases (2), and finally introduces another cause of disease (1).

Question 7

1. I followed him proudly, step by step. 2. My uncle was wonderful at rice cutting. 3. Then my uncle tied the bundles together. 4. He handed me the bundles of stalks as he cuts them. 5. I tore off the leaves, trimmed the stalks and piled them.

  1. A.2 1 4 5 3
  2. B.2 1 5 3 4
  3. C.2 4 5 1 3
  4. D.2 4 1 3 5
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Answer: A 2 1 4 5 3

Why

The narrative begins with the topic sentence about the uncle's skill (2), followed by the narrator joining him (1), the uncle cutting and handing stalks (4), the narrator processing them (5), and finally the uncle tying them (3).

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Is this the real Grade 12 entrance exam?

No. It is a model exam set in 2016 E.C. (2024) to prepare students for the entrance exam, in the same format. Our set holds 113 of its questions, each with its answer and a worked explanation.

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