SPM Literature in English (New Format 2023)
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Everything you need to know about the new English Lit syllabus for SPM.
Sample Questions and Answers
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Course Duration
18 months (From January in Form 4 to June in Form 5)
Exam
June/July
Sample Questions and Answers
Click here to access our comprehensive guide to questions and model answers.
Course Duration
18 months (From January in Form 4 to June in Form 5)
Exam
June/July
Syllabus
Form 4: Choose 6 short stories / 1 novel and 1 drama from the following list:
Form 5: Choose 10 poems from the following list:
Short Stories
1. Turning Thirty by Minfong Ho - Sample Question and Model Answer
2. Birds of Paradise by Minfong Ho - Sample Questions and Model Answers
3. The Winter Hibiscus by Minfong Ho - Sample Question and Model Answer
4. Sambal Without Anchovies by Chua Kok Yee - Sample Question and Model Answer
5. Thieving Daughter by Chua Kok Yee - Sample Question and Model Answer
6. Embracing Your Shadow by Chua Kok Yee - Sample Questions and Model Answers
Novels
1. The Clay Marble by Minfong Ho - Sample Questions and Model Answers
2. The Lost King by Scot Gardner - Sample Questions and Model Answers
Drama
1. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare - Sample Questions and Model Answers
2. Flowers of Algernon by David Keyes (Adapted by Bert Coules) - Sample Questions and Model Answers
3. Hope Springs by Richard Conlon - Sample Questions and Model Answers
Poetry
1. Scattering the Ashes by Andrew Fusek Peters - Sample Questions and Model Answers
2. Remember by Christina Rossetti - Sample Question and Model Answer
3. A Little Learning by Alexander Pope - Sample Questions and Model Answers
4. If by Rudyard Kipling - Sample Questions and Model Answers
5. Half-Term by Ursula Askham Fanthorpe - Sample Questions and Model Answers
6. London by William Blake - Sample Questions and Model Answers
7. The Little Black Boy by William Blake - Sample Questions and Model Answers
8. Field of Vision by Seamus Heaney - Sample Questions and Model Answers
9. Miners by Wilfred Owen - Sample Questions and Model Answers
10. When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats - Sample Questions and Model Answers
11. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe - Sample Questions and Model Answers
12. Best Bone by Paul Hyland - Sample Questions and Model Answers
13. The Tyger by William Blake - Sample Question and Model Answer
14. Mooses by Ted Hughes - Sample Questions and Model Answers
15. To Autumn by John Keats - Sample Question and Model Answer
16. Winter by Andrew Young - Sample Questions and Model Answers
17. Daffodils by William Wordsworth - Sample Questions and Model Answers
18. Address to a Child on a Boisterous Winter Evening by Dorothy Wordsworth - Sample Question and Model Answer
Format
Questions are based on the Cambridge IGCSE English (Literature) 0486 and KI curriculum standards.
Marks are awarded based on performance levels from a category of 1 to 6. For more details on how to achieve a performance level of 6, refer to our Sample Questions and Model Answers guide.
Performance Level 6 - Pupils show in depth knowledge and understanding of the content and language of the texts. Pupils demonstrate insight, sensitivity, individuality and flair in personal responses and produce works with a high level of creativity, originality and independence.
Answering Techniques
- Always keep in mind the following when answering all questions:
- Write as fast as you can as every second saved will give you more time to think and plan for the subsequent questions.
- Always read your answer again to check for grammatical errors and never misspell the name of characters or places.
Additional Information
Form 4: Choose 6 short stories / 1 novel and 1 drama from the following list:
Form 5: Choose 10 poems from the following list:
Short Stories
1. Turning Thirty by Minfong Ho - Sample Question and Model Answer
2. Birds of Paradise by Minfong Ho - Sample Questions and Model Answers
3. The Winter Hibiscus by Minfong Ho - Sample Question and Model Answer
4. Sambal Without Anchovies by Chua Kok Yee - Sample Question and Model Answer
5. Thieving Daughter by Chua Kok Yee - Sample Question and Model Answer
6. Embracing Your Shadow by Chua Kok Yee - Sample Questions and Model Answers
Novels
1. The Clay Marble by Minfong Ho - Sample Questions and Model Answers
2. The Lost King by Scot Gardner - Sample Questions and Model Answers
Drama
1. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare - Sample Questions and Model Answers
2. Flowers of Algernon by David Keyes (Adapted by Bert Coules) - Sample Questions and Model Answers
3. Hope Springs by Richard Conlon - Sample Questions and Model Answers
Poetry
1. Scattering the Ashes by Andrew Fusek Peters - Sample Questions and Model Answers
2. Remember by Christina Rossetti - Sample Question and Model Answer
3. A Little Learning by Alexander Pope - Sample Questions and Model Answers
4. If by Rudyard Kipling - Sample Questions and Model Answers
5. Half-Term by Ursula Askham Fanthorpe - Sample Questions and Model Answers
6. London by William Blake - Sample Questions and Model Answers
7. The Little Black Boy by William Blake - Sample Questions and Model Answers
8. Field of Vision by Seamus Heaney - Sample Questions and Model Answers
9. Miners by Wilfred Owen - Sample Questions and Model Answers
10. When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats - Sample Questions and Model Answers
11. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe - Sample Questions and Model Answers
12. Best Bone by Paul Hyland - Sample Questions and Model Answers
13. The Tyger by William Blake - Sample Question and Model Answer
14. Mooses by Ted Hughes - Sample Questions and Model Answers
15. To Autumn by John Keats - Sample Question and Model Answer
16. Winter by Andrew Young - Sample Questions and Model Answers
17. Daffodils by William Wordsworth - Sample Questions and Model Answers
18. Address to a Child on a Boisterous Winter Evening by Dorothy Wordsworth - Sample Question and Model Answer
Format
Questions are based on the Cambridge IGCSE English (Literature) 0486 and KI curriculum standards.
Marks are awarded based on performance levels from a category of 1 to 6. For more details on how to achieve a performance level of 6, refer to our Sample Questions and Model Answers guide.
Performance Level 6 - Pupils show in depth knowledge and understanding of the content and language of the texts. Pupils demonstrate insight, sensitivity, individuality and flair in personal responses and produce works with a high level of creativity, originality and independence.
Answering Techniques
- Always keep in mind the following when answering all questions:
- Show in-depth understanding of the setting, plot, character, themes, messages and universal issues in texts.
- Analyse and evaluate the use of language, style and tone in prose.
- Show individuality and insight through a perceptive personal response with reference to texts.
- Produce well-planned creative works independently with precise textual evidence.
- Demonstrate knowledge by incorporating well-selected reference to the text skillfully and with flair
- Sustain a critical understanding of the text showing individuality and insight
- Respond sensitively and in considerable detail to the way the writer achieves his/her effects
- Sustain personal and evaluative engagement with task and text
- Write as fast as you can as every second saved will give you more time to think and plan for the subsequent questions.
- Always read your answer again to check for grammatical errors and never misspell the name of characters or places.
Additional Information
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