Grade 4 English End Term 3 Exam With Answers

The first five questions are free. Learners unlock the full exam, the timer and the complete review.

Grade 4 English end-of-term exams are set by schools and publishers, so formats vary. Most include reading comprehension and grammar, which is what we test here in multiple-choice form, in the style of KPSEA English. Writing (compositions) is also part of the curriculum and of many school exams. It can’t be marked fairly by a computer, so it is not in this paper. Ask your child to write a short story of about 100 words each week and read it together.

• Story comprehension (8 marks): a short original story about a girl and her goat, with questions on facts, feelings and character.
• Notice comprehension (4 marks): reading a school sports day notice for dates, events and things to bring.
• Grammar (12 marks): am, is and are, plurals including irregular ones, the simple past tense, nouns, a and an, opposites, pronouns, capital letters, prepositions and word order.
• Vocabulary, punctuation and spelling (6 marks): people and their jobs, young ones of animals, rhyming words, question marks and common spellings.

Teach your child to read the questions first, then the story, so they know what to look for. Most Grade 4 questions have the answer in the text. The skill is finding it. Questions like “Which word best describes Wanjiku?” need a little more thought: look at what the character does. A girl who feeds her goat every day and searches everywhere for it is caring.

Grammar sticks through use, not rules. Correct gently in conversation (“We went to church yesterday”), read aloud together every evening and play quick games: you say “one box”, your child says “two boxes”. Irregular plurals (mouse/mice, tooth/teeth, child/children) and irregular past tenses (go/went, eat/ate) are worth a small chart on the wall.

• Writing “a orange” instead of “an orange”.
• Using “goed” or “go” for the past tense of go.
• Forgetting the -s in “She drinks”.
• Choosing an answer from memory of the story instead of checking the text.

The story and its first five questions are free for everyone. Learner members unlock the rest of the story questions, the notice, all the grammar items, timed mode and an explanation for every answer. Saved results show which kinds of question (facts, feelings, grammar or spelling) your child finds hardest, so you know where to spend your reading time at home. Membership is free for 7 days, then KES 500 a month.

Find more exams on the Grade 4 revision papers page, practise daily in the Grade 4 CBC Challenge, and see the Grade 4 guide.