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This document is an examination paper for the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) English Paper 3 for Riondong'a High School, scheduled for Term 1, 2024. Candidates are required to answer three questions, with the first two being compulsory, and must adhere to specific instructions regarding their responses. The paper includes prompts for imaginative composition and analysis based on set texts, with a total score of 60 marks.

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101 3 QS

This document is an examination paper for the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) English Paper 3 for Riondong'a High School, scheduled for Term 1, 2024. Candidates are required to answer three questions, with the first two being compulsory, and must adhere to specific instructions regarding their responses. The paper includes prompts for imaginative composition and analysis based on set texts, with a total score of 60 marks.

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RIONDONG’A HIGH SCHOOL(OPENER EXAMS)

TRIAL 1 2024

Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education


101/3 ENGLISH - PAPER 3
(Creative Composition and Essay Based on Set Text)
TIME: 2½ HOURS, term 1, 2024
NAME……………………………………………………………………………………… …

ADM. NO.: ……… …………………………INDEX NO:…….......................................CLASS:……

CANDIDATE’S SIGNATURE: …………………………DATE: ……………..INDEX NO………

Instructions to the Candidates


1. Write your details in the spaces provided at the top of this page.
2. Answer three questions only.
3. Questions one and two are compulsory.
4. In question three choose only one of the optional texts you have prepared for.
5. Where a candidate presents work on more than one optional text, only the first one to appear will
be marked.
6. Each of your essays must not exceed 450 words.
7. Candidates should check to ascertain that no questions are missing.
8. Candidates must answer the questions in English.

For Examiner’s Use Only


Question Maximum score Candidate’s score

1 20

2 20

3 20

Total 60

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Answer three questions only
1. IMAGINATIVE COMPOSITION (COMPULSORY) 20 MARKS

EITHER

(a) Write a composition ending with the following words


--------------------since that day, I have always promised myself to remain focused in my studies.
OR
(b) Write a composition explaining what Kenyan youths can do to help in the fight against
corruption.

2. (COMPULSORY) 20 MARKS

Seeking revenge results in more pain. Using illustrations from Paul B. Vitta’s novel, “Fathers of
Nations”, show the validity of the statement. (20 Marks)

3. EITHER
(a) The short story ( a silent song and other stories)
Some cultural practices do not add value hence should be done away with. Show the truth in
this statement basing your illustrations from Eric Ng’maryo’s Ivory Bangles..

OR

(b) The novel-Kazuo Ishiguro. An Artist of the Floating World


War has a way of affecting not only property but also people’s lives. Drawing examples from
the life of Masuji Ono in Ishiguro’s An Artist of The Floating World, write an essay to show
the truth of this statement.

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