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📘 Paper 1 – Functional Writing, Cloze Test & Oral Skills (60 Marks)

Functional Writing (20 marks):

• Notice (12 marks): As secretary of the Music Club, write a notice inviting neighboring schools and the public to a musical performance of ‘Fathers of Nations’

• Thank You Note (8 marks): Write a thank you note to schools and the public who attended the performance

Cloze Test (10 marks):

• Complete a passage on Millennials and Financial Habits, featuring:

  • Struggling to meet day-to-day expenses

  • Pandemic galvanizing generation to prepare for financial future

  • Study of 12,000 adults across twelve markets

  • Changing spending habits and money management

  • People more careful with saving and spending

Oral Skills (30 marks):

• Poetry Analysis – Read the wedding song

  • Identify stressed words and reasons

  • What is lost when written down

  • What is lost in translation (local flavor, aesthetic beauty, authenticity)

• Reading Aloud – How to ensure listeners get your message (stress, articulation, audibility, pauses, intonation)

• Tongue Twister Analysis – “There is no need to light a night light on a light night like tonight”

  • Genre classification (tongue twister)

  • Assonance identification

  • Functions (language training, entertainment)

  • Audience participation indicators

• Intonation – Identify rising/falling intonation

• Negotiation Skills – Four skills to arbitrate between school captain and deputy captain

• Word Stress – Explain meanings derived by stressing underlined words

• Group Discussion Skills – How to know when you have opportunity to contribute

📗 Paper 2 – Comprehension, Literary Appreciation & Grammar (80 Marks)

Comprehension (20 marks):

• Read and answer questions on a passage about Cancer Prevention

• Topics covered:

  • Proverbs summarizing the passage (Prevention is better than cure; A stitch in time saves nine)

  • Cancer as a dangerous but preventable disease

  • Early detection for successful treatment

  • 80% of causes identified and preventable

  • Tobacco avoidance, healthy diet, physical activity, sun protection, regular screening

  • Vocabulary: triggered, inhibit, could do the trick, be alert

Literary Appreciation – Excerpt (25 marks):

• Analyze an excerpt from Paul B. Vitta’s Fathers of Nations (Comrade Melusi and Tad Longway)

• Key focus areas:

  • Formation of transition government (Zimbabwe independence)

  • Themes (poor governance, tribalism, politics, poverty, independence, betrayal)

  • Cause of Melusi’s poverty (economic crash, fired from work, Murambatsvina)

  • Stylistic devices (dialogue, local dialect, repetition, simile, irony, symbolism)

  • Sentence transformation (beginning with subordinate clause)

  • Tad Longway’s attitude (disapproving/condescending/suspicious)

  • Longway’s personality (attentive/inquisitive, generous, scheming, cautious)

  • Vocabulary: hit it off, shrewd

Poetry (20 marks):

• Analyze the poem “Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat Nor Drink”

• Key focus areas:

  • Evidence love is not everything (not meat, drink, slumber, roof, floating spar)

  • What love can do (absence can make life meaningless)

  • Persona’s attitude (critical then appreciative)

  • Personification (death given ability to make friends)

  • Theme (love)

  • Meaning of specific lines (marrying a man is making friends with death)

Grammar (15 marks):

• Sentence correction (can be able to → can/is able; like for example → like; content in → content with)

• Joining sentences using wh- words (whom, which)

• Pronouns (I, me)

• Reported speech

• Word forms (be → was/were; sing → sung)

📙 Paper 3 – Imaginative Composition & Set Text Essays (60 Marks)

Imaginative Composition (20 marks):

• Option A: Write a composition on a memorable experience

• Option B: Write a composition to illustrate the proverb: “You reap what you sow”

Compulsory Set Text – The Samaritan by John Lara (20 marks):

• Essay topic: “The wheels of justice turn slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine.”

• Key characters brought to justice:

  • Mayor Mossi – Municipal capture, corruption, bribery, threats; arrested by Tajo

  • Ramdaye – Deputy Mayor; nepotism, road corruption, Black Swan Gang; arrested

  • Ted – Secretary for Health; “ate” a whole hospital, pirating music; arrested

  • Seymour – Secretary for Planning; bribery, Black Swan Gang, drug trafficking; arrested

  • Judge Jaden – Corrupt judge; Rodengate Affair; taking bribes; arrested

Optional Set Texts (20 marks) – Choose ONE:

Option A: The Sins of the Fathers by Charles Mungoshi (from A Silent Song and Other Stories)

• Essay topic: “The sin of commission or omission by parents may negatively affect the lives of their children.”

• Key points:

  • Reckless act – Rwafa causes accident killing Basil Mzamane and granddaughters

  • Cruelty – Rwafa flogs Rondo for mangoes; breaks and burns guitar

  • Overprotectiveness – Gets Rondo a job he is not suited for

  • Public humiliation – Walks out on Rondo and Selina; fails to attend wedding

  • Grandchildren – Hates that Selina bore two daughters

Option B: Parliament of Owls by Adipo Sidang

• Essay topic: “Freedom can only be achieved through determination.”

• Key points:

  • Snake attacks – Money Bags colludes with snakes; birds fight back with Ochunglo’s ants

  • Owls’ tenure – Day birds determined to overthrow owls; Oyundi’s trick

  • Tel Tel’s rebellion – Refuses bribe; spreads truth; arrested and killed

  • Demonstrations – Birds rehearse freedom songs; Arum Tidi incites others

Option C: An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro

• Essay topic: “Sometimes people have great ambitions in life. Even when they fail, they still take pride in their efforts.”

• Key points:

  • Ono’s painting – Ambition to create politically influential art; fails but proud

  • Akira Sugimura – Ambition for Kawabe Park; fails but dies respected

  • Chishu Matsuda – Ambition to restore Japan; fails but proud of effort

  • Mori-san – Ambition to modernize Utamaro tradition; fails but contented

  • Sasaki – Ambition for new painting style; criticized but proud of his work

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✅ Authentic Prediction II Material

These are actual Prediction II Examination papers prepared by experienced educators, known for producing high-quality KCSE preparation materials.

✅ Up-to-Date Content

All questions, passages, and topics are current and aligned with the latest KCSE syllabus for 2026.

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Clear instructions, ample writing space, and a self-evaluation section encourage independent learning and self-improvement.

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✅ Comprehensive Coverage

All three papers cover the entire KCSE English syllabus with detailed marking schemes.