Cambridge IGCSE Arabic - Foreign Language 0544 — 2010 May/June Paper 2 · Variant 1
0544/21/M/J/10 · 65 marks · ≈73 min
The question paper and its mark scheme, free to read here and free to download. This is Cambridge’s own paper, exactly as it was sat.
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This document consists of 13 printed pages and 3 blank pages. DC (LEO/SW/TL) 19064/6 © UCLES 2010 [Turn over UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS International General Certificate of Secondary Education READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST 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. DO NOT WRITE IN ANY BARCODES. Answer all questions in Section 1, Section 2 and Section 3. 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. * 6 7 6 0 0 4 1 3 9 3 * ARABIC 0544/02 Paper 2 Reading and Directed Writing May/June 2010 1 hour 30 minutes Candidates answer on the Question Paper. No Additional Materials are required. For Examiner’s Use Section 1 Section 2 Section 3 Total
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2 0544/02/M/J/10 © UCLES 2010 BLANK PAGE
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3 0544/02/M/J/10 © UCLES 2010 [Turn over For Examiner’s Use Section 1 Exercise 1 Questions 1–5 A B C D [1] A B C D [1] A B C D [1] 1 2 3 ✓
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4 0544/02/M/J/10 © UCLES 2010 For Examiner’s Use A B C D [1] A B C D [1] [Total : 5] 4 5
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5 0544/02/M/J/10 © UCLES 2010 [Turn over For Examiner’s Use Exercise 2 Questions 6–10 ( ) (✓) ✓ [1] [1] [1] [1] [1] [Total : 5] 6 7 8 9 10 3 3 500000 500 6 8673432 5
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6 0544/02/M/J/10 © UCLES 2010 For Examiner’s Use Exercise 3 Questions 11–15 A B C D E F [Total : 5] 11 12 13 14 15
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7 0544/02/M/J/10 © UCLES 2010 [Turn over For Examiner’s Use Exercise 4 Question 16 [Total : 5] (a) (b) (c)
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8 0544/02/M/J/10 © UCLES 2010 For Examiner’s Use Section 2 Exercise 1 Questions 17–24 1990
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9 0544/02/M/J/10 © UCLES 2010 [Turn over For Examiner’s Use [1] … [1] … [1] … [1] … [1] … (a) [1]… (b) [1] … (a) [1]… (b) [1] … [1] … [Total : 10] 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
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10 0544/02/M/J/10 © UCLES 2010 For Examiner’s Use Exercise 2 Question 25 … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … [Total : 15] 100 – 80 (a) (b) (c)
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11 0544/02/M/J/10 © UCLES 2010 [Turn over BLANK PAGE Turn over for Section 3
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12 0544/02/M/J/10 © UCLES 2010 Section 3 Exercise 1 Questions 26–31 ‘KNOL ’ ‘KNOL ’ ‘knowledge’ ‘KNOL’ ‘KNOL’ ‘KNOL’ ‘KNOL’
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13 0544/02/M/J/10 © UCLES 2010 [Turn over For Examiner’s Use 26 … 27 … 28 … 29 … 30 … 31 … [Total : 10] ✓ ‘KNOL ’ ‘KNOL ’ Google ‘KNOL ’ KNOL
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14 0544/02/M/J/10 © UCLES 2010 Exercise 2 Questions 32–39 1700 Global Warming
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15 0544/02/M/J/10 © UCLES 2010 For Examiner’s Use [1] … [1] … [1] … [1] … [1] … [1] … [1] … [1] … [1] … [1] … [Total : 10] 33 34 35 36 (a) (b) 32 (a) (b) 37 38 39
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16 0544/02/M/J/10 © UCLES 2010 BLANK PAGE Copyright Acknowledgements: Exercise 1 Questions 17–24 © Ahmad Al-Sharbini; Al Arabi; Issue no. 596; 1/7/08; Al-Arabi Magazine; www.alarabimag.net. Exercise 1 Questions 26–31 © Knol logo; Google. Exercise 1 Questions 26–31 © Mohammed Al-Sayyed; 28/9/08; http://www.moheet.com/show_mews. Exercise 2 Questions 32–39 © Al-Furat Magazine; www.alkadhum.org/alfuret/news; 2/3/09; www.alkhadum.org. 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. University of 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.
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UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS International General Certificate of Secondary Education MARK SCHEME for the May/June 2010 question paper for the guidance of teachers 0544 ARABIC (FOREIGN LANGUAGE) 0544/02 Paper 2 (Reading and Directed Writing), maximum raw mark 65 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. • CIE will not enter into discussions or correspondence in connection with these mark schemes. CIE is publishing the mark schemes for the May/June 2010 question papers for most IGCSE, GCE Advanced Level and Advanced Subsidiary Level syllabuses and some Ordinary Level syllabuses.
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Page 2 Mark Scheme: Teachers’ version Syllabus Paper IGCSE – May/June 2010 0544 02 © UCLES 2010 General marking principles 1 Please note that it is not possible to list all acceptable alternatives in this mark scheme. You will need to consider all alternative answers and unexpected approaches in candidates' scripts, make a decision on whether they communicate the required elements, in consultation with your Team Leader if necessary, and award marks accordingly. 2 Do not alter what the candidate has written in any way, e.g. if a letter is missing, don't add it in, and if a word doesn't end correctly, don't write in the correction. Where necessary, indicate errors by underlining or by placing a circle where a letter should be or by using an insert sign to indicate something is missing. 3 If a candidate changes his/her mind over an answer and crosses out an attempt, award a mark if the final attempt is correct. 4 If a candidate crosses out an answer to a whole question but makes no second attempt at it, mark the crossed out work. 5 For questions requiring more than one element for the answer, (i) and (ii), where the answers are interchangeable: Both correct answers on line 1, and line 2 blank = 2 Both correct answers on line 1, and line 2 wrong = 1 (or vice-versa) 6 inv = invalidation 7 bod = benefit of doubt
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Page 3 Mark Scheme: Teachers’ version Syllabus Paper IGCSE – May/June 2010 0544 02 © UCLES 2010 Detailed mark scheme SECTION 1 Exercise 1 Questions 1–5 1 B 2 D 3 C 4 C 5 A 1 Mark per item = 5 Marks Exercise 2 Questions 6–10 6 7 8 9 10 1 Mark per item = 5 Marks Exercise 3 Questions 11–15 11 B 12 D 13 A 14 F 15 C 1 Mark per item = 5 Marks
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Page 4 Mark Scheme: Teachers’ version Syllabus Paper IGCSE – May/June 2010 0544 02 © UCLES 2010 Exercise 4 Question 16 COMMUNICATION: 1 mark per item up to a maximum of 3 + APPROPRIATENESS OF LANGUAGE: 0, 1 or 2 marks according to grid • Mark answers that are not written in the space provided for that purpose exactly as if they were written in the correct space, e.g. where candidates answer the questions but ignore the instruction to frame their answer as a message/email: (a) (b) ( رc) ً = ا2 for COMMUNICATION and 0 for APPROPRIATENESS. Communication REFUSE (a) إ أ ه1 Accept any suitable response أ ذاه إ ا ) ان ( أن أذه إ ا ) راً ( أ ذاه إ أ ذاه إ أ no indication of destination ( أ ذاه+ no indication of destination) (b) ذا1 Accept any suitable reason (c) إ ا ر1 Accept any indication of a future time no indication of time any indication of a past time, e.g. yesterday Appropriateness of language 2 For the award of 2 marks, 2 verbs must be in appropriate tenses. Minor errors (adjective endings, use of prepositions etc) are tolerated. 1 There is some appropriate usage to reward. For the award of 1 mark, 1 verb must be in an appropriate tense. 0 There are no examples of appropriate usage to reward. Where 0 marks were awarded for Communication, 0 marks are awarded for Language. When marking for Language, consider only the parts of the candidate's work for which you are awarding a communication mark. For APPROPRIATENESS accept any tense as long as it is used in a logical fashion. NB: if candidates do not attempt one of the tasks they cannot score more than 1 mark for language. [Total: 5]
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Page 5 Mark Scheme: Teachers’ version Syllabus Paper IGCSE – May/June 2010 0544 02 © UCLES 2010 SECTION 2 Exercise 1 Questions 17–24 General Marking Principles • Answers should be marked for communication. Tolerate inaccuracies provided the message is clear. • At this stage (Section 2) we are on the whole rewarding the candidate for being able to locate the answer in the passage and we are not worried about lifting unless this would cause the message to be distorted – in which case a lift will be specifically rejected in the mark scheme. • Ignore extra material given in an answer providing that it does not invalidate an answer. • Where extra material invalidates an answer, underline the material and place INV above it. Invalidation = 0. • In general, do not accept incorrect Arabic if the word given means something else in Arabic.
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Page 6 Mark Scheme: Teachers’ version Syllabus Paper IGCSE – May/June 2010 0544 02 © UCLES 2010 REFUSE 1 ! "# $ أر / 40 ! 1970 17 1 ) ( %ا+*ب ا&ه ا% ) ( ا210 ام " ا-ا, " 18 # ا+*ب 1 ) ( %34-أن *وت آ ا&ب ا ) ا#8 ( ) &ن ( ا+*ب ا 9 19 &9 آ * : ا -43% 1 أراد أن -" " ا=*اءة / ا / ا=*اءة وا ون إز@ج أراد أن -" " ا=*اءة / ا / ا=*اءة وا 9 وء ) &: ( آن : اCص ) &9 ( آ * : ا-43% وه : اCص . 20 1 1 ًآ F%- E ا . آن ه ك HGF @% ا ب K=ل ) - ع ا Lل ( (a) (b) 21 1 1 G" آن * أن *ي ) ا&,4ل ( آ ً E اً G" أراد أن Oل ) ا&,4ل ( @" أ@-98 ا- ر! . (a) (b) 22 1 ( #%8 ) 4P / ا# ا&* *وت ( : ) إ23 1 ) # = اK أن ( Q*ا ر وا R آن أ3S Q*ار اKC$R GK: ) # = اK أن ( Q*ار وا R آن E اً / - زاً ) و!ف #-S اK U%- @-S وا R (. 24 [Total: 10]
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Page 7 Mark Scheme: Teachers’ version Syllabus Paper IGCSE – May/June 2010 0544 02 © UCLES 2010 Exercise 2 Question 25 NO WORD COUNT • 1 mark per item up to a maximum of 10 for Communication + • Up to 5 marks for Accuracy according to banded mark scheme below Communication NB: Each of the three tasks (a)–(c) must be completed to gain the 10 communication marks. If point (a) or (b) or (c) is missing, the maximum communication mark is 9. If two of (a) or (b) or (c) are missing, the maximum communication mark is 8. LISTS = a maximum of 3 marks for communication: lists of 1–3 items = 1 mark lists of 4 items = 2 marks lists of 5–6 items = 3 marks REFUSE (a) آX آن ا4* إ W ا ؟ (b) ذا K+ّ أو 2 K+ّ ا- ا ة ؟ (c) KOS أن K*E[ ازرة أ1 QZW ؟ Accuracy 5 • Limited range of vocabulary, idiom and structures (e.g. ، ، .) ن •The style of writing is basic but reasonably coherent. • Use of a limited range of verbs, often successful. • More accuracy than inaccuracy. 4 Basic range of vocabulary, idiom and structures (e.g. ، .) ن • Sentences may be repetitive (e.g. all beginning with ,) أbut are often successful. • Use of a basic range of verbs, with some success. • The writing is sufficiently accurate for meaning to be conveyed. 3 • Basic range of vocabulary and structures • Sentences are repetitive (e.g. all beginning with .) أ •Some awareness of verb usage. • Despite regular errors, the writing conveys some meaning. 2 • Basic vocabulary and structures. • Effective for a variety of straightforward messages. • Little awareness of verb usage. • The degree of inaccuracy often obscures the meaning. 1 • Minimal vocabulary. • Effective for some messages (more than one), usually unconnected. • Insufficient accuracy to convey the meaning. 0 Insufficient accuracy to be awarded a mark of 1. Length: award mark for accuracy on the basis of the quality of work the candidate has produced. Where the composition is so short that the number of messages is restricted, this will be self- penalising. [Total: 15]
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Page 8 Mark Scheme: Teachers’ version Syllabus Paper IGCSE – May/June 2010 0544 02 © UCLES 2010 SECTION 3 General Marking Principles • Answers should be marked for communication. Tolerate inaccuracies provided the message is clear. • At this stage (Section 3) we are looking for signs of genuine comprehension. As a general rule, candidates who lift indiscriminately fail to demonstrate comprehension and will not score the mark. However, careful lifting of just the required details does demonstrate comprehension and should be rewarded. See detailed mark scheme for guidance. • Where extra material invalidates an answer, underline the material and place INV above it. Invalidation = 0. • In general, do not accept incorrect Arabic if the word given means something else in Arabic.
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Page 9 Mark Scheme: Teachers’ version Syllabus Paper IGCSE – May/June 2010 0544 02 © UCLES 2010 Exercise 1 Questions 26–31 1 Mark per question for True or False: use a tick to indicate that the True/False element is correct 1 Mark for correcting False statement (26, 27, 29, 30): use a 1 to indicate that the correction is acceptable and a 0 to indicate it is unacceptable. Add up the ticks and 1s to give the total mark out of 10. • Candidate ticks/crosses and goes on to supply justification: award mark for if this is the correct answer; ignore any justification. If is not the correct answer, no marks are awarded. • Candidate ticks neither nor and supplies justification: assume candidate intended to tick and proceed accordingly, e.g. 1 mark for ticking if this is the correct answer and 1 mark for a correct justification. • Candidate ticks and provides no justification: award 1 mark for if this is the correct answer; no further marks can be awarded. • Candidate ticks both boxes, with or without justification: no marks can be awarded (unless the candidate indicates that you should ignore one of the ticks in which case proceed according to the usual rules). ا اول : ع ا ت : 10 ت ( أو L0O ( ×) - % ^8 اآ ااب ا]+\ %-% اC0O . أE 1\ ) @H ن أن Kن ا`[ ا-42ت ا- _رة @%- و^= ااب : L0O، -" أن Kن ا-ا`[ ا- _رة أي ل آن . 26 @H ن " Q S d*آ EES =c . KNOL -" إ@دة K+** ا-=ل ااب : L0O، " LHل آK 9 ا&1% . 27 @H واG ة -" %=*اء أن 34ا K#%=ت @% ا-=ل ا$ي _* وآ . ااب : 1+\ 28 @H ن KQ#: و@ ا: %_9*ة . KNOL أن 3[ اK ل ااب : G0O، 2 3[ اK @ ا:، =c KQ#: و1رK: ا_C] +-S eو آ : . 29 @H ن اQ *اGت ا=*اء آ%ً . Google f*K ااب : L0O، 8 إدج ا-= *Gت @% ا-C ى ا- _ر ا-=ل . 30 @H واG ة . KNOL 4 اK د " _* =: !@ ل ااب : 1\ 31 [Total: 10]
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Page 10 Mark Scheme: Teachers’ version Syllabus Paper IGCSE – May/June 2010 0544 02 © UCLES 2010 Exercise 2, Questions 32–39 ا ا : ع ا ت : 10 ت أ$# ا"! ا ً ا : ا 10ف ر- ا ,+ ا * إ ( ا # ا ' ؟32 1 ا ف ( " ذو ن ا 0 . (a) 1 0 أ98 7 " ت ُ5 ا . (b) 1 آ ? > = 7 س "5 ا اح ا 0؟ CB و-0ات رادار . 33 1 ذا أوCFE ا Dر # ا ' ؟ >'10 اH G ً . 34 1 أه ا * ا 00ة ا أر" E إ ( ا # ا ' ؟ > Nرة أMLK 5 ا 0 . 35 ه ا R Q ا "ف ض 1 ا = ا O ا 9؟36 1 0 اS1 رات ا . (a) 1 و$د F ات $ 0 T ة . أو >اM ا V 'ب . أو ار>, ع ت ا *F ر . (b) 1 "*# ه أ 1 ت - ان M K ا *F DO ره ؟ ذو ن ا 0 . 37 1 آ ? H 0 ت أن > X و> H W؟ أن > Y7 = ( ر NO ره M ا V ا LF . 38 1 ذا 7ر " أن ,K 0 7اءة ا ل؟ أن *0أ - > 0ة ا F ا ت . 39 [Total: 10]
What you needed in this session
Cambridge’s own grade thresholds for 2010 May/June, Paper 2 · Variant 1. A higher threshold means an easier paper — the bar moves with how the cohort did.