3248 Second Language Urdu: MARK SCHEME For The May/June 2010 Question Paper For The Guidance of Teachers

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS
GCE Ordinary Level

MARK SCHEME for the May/June 2010 question paper

for the guidance of teachers

3248 SECOND LANGUAGE URDU
3248/01 Paper 1 (Composition and Translation),
maximum raw mark 55

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.

Page 2 Mark Scheme: Teachers version Syllabus Paper
GCE O LEVEL May/June 2010 3248 01

UCLES 2010
Part 1: Directed Writing (15 marks)

The syllabus specifies that the candidates are to write an essay in Urdu of about 150 words.
Examiners are to read up to 200 words and ignore any further writing.
If one bullet point is not covered at all, then the maximum mark for language is 7.

Language (out of 9) Content (out of 6)
89 Very good
Confident use of complex sentence patterns,
generally accurate, extensive vocabulary, good
sense of idiom.
56 Very good
Detailed, clearly relevant and well illustrated;
coherently argued and structured.
67 Good
Generally sound grasp of grammar in spite of
quite a few lapses; reads reasonably; some
attempt at varied vocabulary and sentence
patterns.
4 Good
Sound knowledge and generally relevant; some
ability to develop argument and draw
conclusions.
45 Adequate
A tendency to be simple, clumsy or laboured;
some degree of accuracy; inappropriate use of
idiom.
3 Adequate
Some knowledge, but not always relevant; a
more limited capacity to argue.
23 Poor
Consistently simple or pedestrian sentence
patterns (basic sentence structure) with
persistent errors; limited vocabulary.
2 Poor
Some attempt at argument, tends to be sketchy
or unspecific; little attempt to structure an
argument; major misunderstanding of question.
01 Very poor
Only the simplest sentence patterns, little
evidence of grammatical awareness, very limited
vocabulary.
01 Very poor
Vague and general, ideas presented at random.

UCLES 2010
Part 2: Letter, Report, Dialogue or Speech (20 marks)

The syllabus specifies that the candidates are to write in Urdu of about 200 words.

Language (out of 15) Content (out of 5)
1315 Very good
Confident use of complex sentence patterns,
generally accurate, extensive vocabulary, good
sense of idiom.
5 Very good
Detailed, clearly relevant and well illustrated;
coherently argued and structured.
1012 Good
Generally sound grasp of grammar in spite of
quite a few lapses; reads reasonably; some
attempt at varied vocabulary and sentence
patterns.
4 Good
Sound knowledge and generally relevant; some
ability to develop argument and draw
conclusions.
79 Adequate
A tendency to be simple, clumsy or laboured;
some degree of accuracy; inappropriate use of
idiom.
3 Adequate
Some knowledge, but not always relevant; a
more limited capacity to argue.
46 Poor
Consistently simple or pedestrian sentence
patterns (basic sentence structure) with
persistent errors; limited vocabulary.
2 Poor
Some attempt at argument, tends to be sketchy
or unspecific; little attempt to structure an
argument; major misunderstanding of question.
03 Very poor
Only the simplest sentence patterns, little
evidence of grammatical awareness, very limited
vocabulary.
01 Very poor
Vague and general, ideas presented at random.

UCLES 2010
Part 3: Translation (20 marks)
English Urdu accept
1 Vultures play a very important role
2 in the Indian sub-continent.
3 They are unusual looking birds
4 with only a few feathers
5 on their head and neck.
6 They survive by eating dead animals
7 and by doing so
8 they stop the spread of diseases.
9 Farmers leave dead animals
10 out in the fields
11 knowing that
12 they will be cleaned up
13 by the vultures.
14 During the last decade
15 the number of vultures
16 in some regions
17 has fallen greatly.
18 The reason for this is that
19 vultures are harmed by some medicines
20 that farmers feed to their cattle.


UCLES 2010

21 As a result
22 there are many more dead animals left in the fields,
23 causing an increase
24 in disease carrying germs and insects.
25 According to one scientist,
26 because vultures are quite ugly birds,
27
no-one has been too worried
28 about them dying out.
29
Now people are beginning to realise
30 the important job they do,
31 and why they need to be protected.
32 A surprising effect
33 of the shortage of vultures,
34 is an increase in
35 the number of wild dogs
36 who eat the corpses.
37 With more wild dogs around
38 there is a greater risk
39 of people
40 catching rabies.

As in any language translation there are different ways of translating to and from any language. This
example here gives a good sense of the original English. Examiners will need to read candidates
work and judge how well the candidate had transferred the meaning of the original.
Mark each phrase out of 1 putting mark in the margin. Add up the marks (out of 40) then divide by 2 to
get a final mark out of 20.
NB This is not marked for written accuracy but for meaning.

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