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Exam
tips
Monacia
Williams, Contributor
Here
we are together again. Those of you
who have already started exams, I
hope you have been doing well and
that as you continue your efforts
will get even better.
Last
week, I left you with some questions
to help with your revision; I hope
you made an attempt at answering them.
If you did, you will now be able to
compare your answers with mine. However,
before I provide you with these answers,
here are some tips to help you with
your performance in the exam.
Tips
You
need to remember that:
- Paper
01 consists only of multiple-choice
items.
- Paper
02 consists of three short-answer
and three essay-type questions.
- All
the questions are compulsory; there
are no options!
- In
many instances the short-answer
questions can be challenging and
if you are not careful you might
find yourself using up more than
the allotted time in answering these
questions. I recommend what many
of my students have found to be
a useful strategy. Answer one short
answer and then one essay-type question,
this way you will safeguard yourself
from spending too much time on the
short-answer section, hence not
leaving enough time to answer the
essays.
- You
also need to remember that the lines
allotted for the answers to the
questions are adequate for the required
answer. Do not repeat the question
in your answer; it is not necessary
and only takes up space that will
be needed for the answer.
- You
must always read the introductory
preamble to each question. It usually
contains valuable information.
Now,
let us answer the questions.
I
will start with the answer for the
second question.
Question
ii
1.
Smoke emission produces soot, cigarette
produces tar. Tar breaks down the
alveoli, while soot covers the surface
area of the leaf.
2.
Breakdown of the alveoli reduces the
surface are available for gaseous
exchange, while coverage of the leaf
by soot blocks the stomata hence reducing
the leaves' ability to exchange gases.
Question
iii
Cigarette
smoking can cause many pulmonary diseases
such as bronchitis and emphysema and
aggravate others such as sinusitis
and asthma. It is also a leading cause
of lung cancer. These diseases not
only affect the smoker, but can affect
those who are within the vicinity
of the smoker. Increase in the incidences
of the diseases would increase the
government's expenditure on public
health so it would be in the government's
best interest to ban smoking in public
places to prevent this from happening.
Question
i
Well,
how did you do?
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Back
to work now! From left: Michelle
McFee, Johann Cover and Mickelle
Hughes, past students of Knox
College in Spaldings, Clarendon,
take a break from their Labour
Day project at the institution
on Saturday, May 23.
- Nashauna Drummond/Lifestyle
Coordinator
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Monacia
Williams teaches at Glenmuir High
School.
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