Cambridge A Level Urdu - Pakistan only (A Level only) 9686 — 2011 Oct/Nov Paper 3 · Variant 1

This document consists of 2 printed pages. DC (LEO/SW) 38511/3 © UCLES 2011 [Turn over UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS General Certificate of Education Advanced Level READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST If you have been given an Answer Booklet, follow the instructions on the front cover of the Booklet. Write your Centre number, candidate number and name on all the work you hand in. Write in dark blue or black pen. Do not use staples, paper clips, highlighters, glue or correction fluid. Answer one question in Urdu. You should write between 250 and 400 words. Dictionaries are not permitted. At the end of the examination, fasten all your work securely together. Your essay will be marked out of 40 with 16 marks for Content and 24 marks for Quality of Language. * 2 2 2 1 6 6 2 7 7 6 * URDU 9686/03 Paper 3 Essay October/November 2011 1 hour 30 minutes Additional Materials: Answer Booklet/Paper (content) (quality of language)

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UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS GCE Advanced Level MARK SCHEME for the October/November 2011 question paper for the guidance of teachers 9686 URDU 9686/03 Paper 3 (Essay), maximum raw mark 40 This mark scheme is published as an aid to teachers and candidates, to indicate the requirements of the examination. It shows the basis on which Examiners were instructed to award marks. It does not indicate the details of the discussions that took place at an Examiners’ meeting before marking began, which would have considered the acceptability of alternative answers. Mark schemes must be read in conjunction with the question papers and the report on the examination. • Cambridge will not enter into discussions or correspondence in connection with these mark schemes. Cambridge is publishing the mark schemes for the October/November 2011 question papers for most IGCSE, GCE Advanced Level and Advanced Subsidiary Level syllabuses and some Ordinary Level syllabuses.

Page 2 Mark Scheme: Teachers’ version Syllabus Paper GCE A LEVEL – October/November 2011 9686 03 © University of Cambridge International Examinations 2011 Language (out of 24) Content (out of 16) 21–24 Very Good Confident use of complex sentence patterns; generally accurate; extensive vocabulary; good sense of idiom. 14–16 Very Good Detailed, clearly relevant and well illustrated; coherently argued and structured. 16–20 Good Generally sound grasp of grammar in spite of quite a few lapses; reads reasonably; some attempt at varied vocabulary. 11–13 Good Sound knowledge and generally relevant; some ability to develop argument and draw conclusions. 10–15 Adequate A tendency to be simple, clumsy or laboured; some degree of accuracy; inappropriate use of idiom. 7–10 Adequate Some knowledge, but not always relevant; a more limited capacity to argue. 5–9 Poor Consistently simple or pedestrian sentence patterns with persistent errors; limited vocabulary. 3–6 Poor Some attempt at argument, tends to be sketchy or unspecific; little attempt to structure an argument; major misunderstanding of question. 1–4 Very Poor Only the simplest sentence patterns; little evidence of grammatical awareness; very limited vocabulary. 1–2 Very Poor Vague and general; ideas presented at random.