Cambridge IGCSE Arabic - First Language 0508 — 2014 Oct/Nov Paper 1 · Variant 1

0508/11/O/N/14 · 50 marks · ≈56 min

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This document consists of 5 printed pages, 3 blank pages and 1 insert. DC (LK/JF) 81804/4 © UCLES 2014 [Turn over Cambridge International Examinations Cambridge International General Certificate of Secondary Education FIRST LANGUAGE ARABIC 0508/01 Paper 1 Reading October/November 2014 2 hours No Additional Materials are required. 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, glue or correction fluid. DO NOT WRITE IN ANY BARCODES. Answer all questions. At the end of the examination, fasten all your work securely together. The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question or part question. * 3 3 5 0 0 1 7 7 6 1 *

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8 0508/01/O/N/14 © UCLES 2014 Copyright Acknowledgements: Questions 1 & 2 © ‘Isām Sālih; Al-‘Arabī Magazine; Ministry of Information, Kuwait. Question 2 © Mohammad Qāndī; Al-‘Arabī Magazine; Ministry of Information, Kuwait. Permission to reproduce items where third-party owned material protected by copyright is included has been sought and cleared where possible. Every reasonable effort has been made by the publisher (UCLES) to trace copyright holders, but if any items requiring clearance have unwittingly been included, the publisher will be pleased to make amends at the earliest possible opportunity. Cambridge International Examinations is part of the Cambridge Assessment Group. Cambridge Assessment is the brand name of University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES), which is itself a department of the University of Cambridge. BLANK PAGE

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® IGCSE is the registered trademark of Cambridge International Examinations. CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS Cambridge International General Certificate of Secondary Education MARK SCHEME for the October/November 2014 series 0508 FIRST LANGUAGE ARABIC 0508/01 Paper 1 (Reading), maximum raw mark 50 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 should be read in conjunction with the question paper and the Principal Examiner Report for Teachers. Cambridge will not enter into discussions about these mark schemes. Cambridge is publishing the mark schemes for the October/November 2014 series for most Cambridge IGCSE®, Cambridge International A and AS Level components and some Cambridge O Level components.

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Page 3 Mark Scheme Syllabus Paper Cambridge IGCSE – October/November 2014 0508 01 © Cambridge International Examinations 2014 :   :   !" #$ % &  # ' (# –1 .   6  -   –2 N0- –3 1  ;* / H –4 4  3+ &H –5 .K  3   &7  0  8 7 –6 1  0 :  #$ % &  # ' (# –1  - 3      –2 '    /O    10 / /   C+ 6 3) –3 BE0 M   E  –4 1 ) 8 M  3 1  3   -/ –5 , –6 B 2  &- 8 7 1 7 K + /2 ;* / –7 6) –8 3 2 / = E    1# –9 N   1  :8P  O  :'3  15 O 0  :=7 #  10 /O Question 2: 10 marks are available for Writing, awarded as follows: Writing: Style and Organisation 5 (Excellent) Excellent expression and focus with assured use of own words. Good summary style with orderly grouping of ideas; excellent linkage. Answer has sense of purpose. 4 (Good) Good expression in recognisable summary style. Attempts to focus and to group ideas; good linkage. 3 (Adequate) Satisfactory expression in own words. Reasonably concise with some sense of order. Occasional lapses of focus. 2 (Weak) Limited expression but mostly in own words (i.e. may contain some lifting). Some sense of order but little sense of summary. Tendency to lose focus (e.g. by including some anecdote); thread not always easy to follow. 1 (Poor) Expression just adequate; maybe list-like. Considerable lifting; repetitive. Much irrelevance.

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Page 4 Mark Scheme Syllabus Paper Cambridge IGCSE – October/November 2014 0508 01 © Cambridge International Examinations 2014 Writing: Accuracy of Language 5 (Excellent) Clear, carefully chosen language with complex syntax where appropriate. Varied, precise vocabulary. Hardly any or no technical errors. 4 (Good) Clear, appropriate language. Appropriate vocabulary. Few technical errors. 3 (Adequate) Language generally appropriate, but unsophisticated and generally simple syntax. Adequate vocabulary. Some technical errors. Some lifting. 2 (Weak) Unsophisticated language, not always appropriate. Very simple syntax with some clumsiness. Thin vocabulary. A number of technical errors OR language is almost entirely lifted. 1 (Poor) Thin, inappropriate use of language. Confused and obscure. Many errors.

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Cambridge’s own grade thresholds for 2014 Oct/Nov, Paper 1 · Variant 1. A higher threshold means an easier paper — the bar moves with how the cohort did.

A39/50
B35/50
C32/50
D25/50
E19/50
F14/50
G9/50