Grade 7 English End Term 3 Exam With Answers

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End-of-term English exams in junior school are set by schools, so their length varies, but nearly all test the same skills: reading a story or information text, reading a poem, and grammar and vocabulary. Our exam has an original story about a boy settling into a new school in Mombasa, an original poem about the October jacaranda, and 20 grammar questions covering the Grade 7 language structures. The style matches the multiple-choice half of the Grade 9 KJSEA English paper.

Story questions test four things: facts stated in the text, reasons (why a character did something), the meaning of phrases in context, and the theme. Teach your child to find the sentence that proves each answer. “Why did Baraka pretend to read?” is not answered directly, but the sentence before it, “nobody spoke to him at break time”, gives the reason. Theme questions ask what the whole passage is about; the best answer covers the beginning, middle and end, not just one event.

Poetry questions in Grade 7 usually ask about the subject, a line’s meaning, rhyme, simple figures of speech and mood. Know these terms:

• Simile: a comparison using “like” or “as”.
• Metaphor: a direct comparison (“a violet storm”).
• Personification: giving human qualities to non-human things (“the jacaranda wakes”).
• Rhyme: words with matching end sounds (“wakes” and “brakes”).
• Mood: the feeling the poem creates, such as joyful, sad or calm.

The grammar section covers collective and abstract nouns, possessive and relative pronouns, irregular past tenses, the present simple and past continuous, the order of adjectives (opinion, size, colour), comparatives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, the apostrophe, synonyms and antonyms, spelling, sentence types, idioms, the passive voice and direct speech. Each worked answer gives the rule, so your child can learn from every mistake.

• “Teached” instead of “taught”, and other irregular verbs. Keep a list and test it weekly.
• Putting adjectives in the wrong order (“a red beautiful dress”).
• “Which” for people; use “who”.
• Putting the comma outside the quotation marks in direct speech.
• Misspelling “receive”. Remember: i before e, except after c.

Allow about 30 minutes for the story, 20 for the poem and 25 for grammar, leaving a few minutes to check. Read the questions on each text first so you know what to look for.

Sit it in the time allowed, then go through each wrong answer with your child, asking them to explain the rule in their own words. Reading for fifteen minutes every day, from story books, newspapers or our articles, builds the vocabulary that comprehension depends on. More Grade 7 exams are on the Grade 7 revision papers page, and the Grade 7 CBC Challenge has short English sets for daily practice.