ITEM SPECIFICATION TABLE

ENGLISH LANGUAGE (013)

SECTION A

Level of questions Types of items

QS CONSTRUCT
NO Remember Understand Application Analysis Evaluate Create M Open- Open-
C ended/ ended/
Q Limited Unlimited
respond respond
E M A E M A E M A E M A E M A E M A
Common nouns
Countable & uncountable
1 / /
nouns
Possessive nouns
2 Interrogative nouns / /
3 Past tense / /
Present continuous tense
4 Past continuous tense / /
5 Conjunction (because/so) / /
Collective nouns
Simple future tense
Future continuous tense
Conjunction
(although/since)
Compound nouns
Abstract & concrete nouns
Reflexive pronouns
Correlative pronoun
(either..or/neither..nor)
 Simple present tense
Conjunction
(for,and,but,or,yet,so)
Preposition
(above/between)
6 Simile
Proverb / /
Idioms
7-9 Close text
grammar / /
vocabulary / /

10 Similar meaning
Same meaning / /

11 Punctuation / /

12-15 Close text

Grammar / /
vocubalary / /

16-20 Reading comprehension

non-linear

16 Knowledge/remember / /
18 Comprehension/understan / /
d
19 Application / /
17,20 Analysis / / /
Synthesis/evaluation
Creation/prediction
TOTAL 20

ITEM SPECIFICATION TABLE

ENGLISH LANGUAGE (013)

SECTION B

Level of questions Types of items

QS CONSTRUCT
NO Remember Understand Application Analysis Evaluate Create M Open- Open-
C ended/ ended/
Q Limited Unlimited
respond respond
E M A E M A E M A E M A E M A E M A
Situation (social
21
expressions)
To explain a /
To wish b /
To inform c /
Reading
22
Comprehension
Linear
 Knowledge
Comprehension/understa
b a /
nd
Application c /
Analysis d e / /
Evaluation
Creation/prediction
Reading
23
Comprehension
Non-Linear
Knowledge a d / /
Comprehension/understa
b /
nd
Application c /
Analysis e /
Evaluation
Creation/prediction
24 Reading
Non-linear
Knowledge a /
Comprehension/understa
b /
nd
25 Application c /
Knowledge
Analysis
Evaluation d /
Creation/Prediction e /
30