By Elimu Assistant Team 
QUESTIONS
- Read the passage below and answer all the questions that follow
Society has the obligation to provide young people with the right knowledge and skills to become productive workers, good parents and responsible citizens, according a World Bank Report, Development and the Next Generation. And it is through education that the young develops their ability to be productive workers, good parents and responsible citizens, World Development Report, 2007, authored by World Bank notes.
The report says that effective investments need to happen during childhood and adolescence for it to bear fruits. Investments in adolescence are needed to make earlier investments during childhood pay off a hundred fold. The report underscores the need to establish a strong secondary education that will further strengthen the capabilities that primary education established.
It stresses the need to improve the relevance and quality of post primary education by teaching students the practical knowledge, thinking and behavioral skills demanded by the labour market. To achieve this, the education system must promote a teaching method that leads to high learning achievement and blends the academic and vocational curricular. It should link what happens in school to local economy.
To improve the relevance of education to the learners, the report says, education must produce peep with strong thinking and interpersonal skills because job tasks are increasingly requiring problem solving, and communciaiton skills. Entrepreneurs are also increasingly demanding thinking skills and problem and behavioral skills such as self-confidence and leadership.
In a nutshell, what are the types of skills that a topnotch education system requires? It requires two basic types of skills: thinking skills and behavioral skills. Thinking skills include conceptual, critical and creative skills. High quality education develops learners with superior conceptual, analytical and critical skills – skills that condition the learner to be curious,. Inquisitive and always posing and seeking answers to problem situations or processes. Behavioral skills include such traits as perseverance, self-discipline, teamwork, the ability to negotiate risks.
The report also still highlights the enduring role of what it terms basic skills which is literacy and numeracy-ability to read, write and count. These basic skills are needed for further learning, work and life. The report also identifies what it terms post basic skills-the higher order thinking skills, and higher order behavioural skills such as decision-making skills, team work, the ability to negotiate conflict and manage risks and specific knowledge applied to real-life situations, and vocational skills. The foregoing demonstrates the integral role of Early Childhood and Primary and Secondary cycle plays in crating the foundation for higher education in tertiary and Universality education. The quality of higher education is as good as the primary and secondary education.
(Adapted From Elimu News. A Newsletter of Ministry of Education. Issue No. 7 Dec. 2012)
a) According to the passage what is the role of the society in the development of an individual? (2 marks)
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b) In what ways can an education system attain the demands of the job market? (3 marks)
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c) Contrast thinking and behavourial skills (4 marks)
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d) In not more than 40 words, summarize what is expected of a person who has attained post basic skills (5 marks)
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e) Explain the relationship between primary and secondary education (2 marks)
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f) The report says that effective investments need to happen during childhood and adolescence for it to bear fruits, (Rewrite using a conditional) (1 mark)
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g) How does post secondary education benefit from lower levels of education? (1 mark)
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h) Explain the meaning of the following words as used in the passage (3 marks)
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b. Blends…………………………………………………………………………………
c. Topnotch……………………………………………………………………………….
MARKING SCHEMES
QUESTION ONE
- It provides young people with the right knowledge and skills to become productive workers, good parents and responsible citizens (2 marks)
- i. It must promote a teaching method that leas to high achievement blends the academic and vocational curricular.
ii. It should link what happens in school to the local economy
iii. It must produce people with strong thinking and interpersonal skills (Because job tasks are increasingly requiring problem-solving and communication skills)
(3 marks)
(c) Thinking skills include: conceptual, critical and creative skills (that condition the learners to be curious, inquisitive and always posting and seeking answers) while/whereas behavioral skills include such traits as perseverance, self-discipline, team work, the ability to negotiate risks. (4 marks)
(d) They met to plot how to overthrow the governors and the Grand Duke. The Governor is later overthrown and executed. (3marks)
(e) War: the war in Persia has taken a turn for the worse/ the governor is overthrown (2 marks)
(f) The Adjutant believes that in case of any invasion the palace guards will defend the Governor yet they are the first to rebel from within (they have mutinied) (2 marks)
(g) Foreshadow (3 marks)
i. Now you don’t need an architect, a carpenter will do
ii. You won’t be moving into palace but into a little hole in the ground
iii. You are walking to a palace whence no one returns.
