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UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS

GCE Ordinary Level

MARK SCHEME for the October/November 2011 question paper


for the guidance of teachers

3248 SECOND LANGUAGE URDU


3248/01 Paper 1 (Composition and Translation),
maximum raw mark 55

This mark scheme is published as an aid to teachers and candidates, to indicate the requirements of
the examination. It shows the basis on which Examiners were instructed to award marks. It does not
indicate the details of the discussions that took place at an Examiners’ meeting before marking began,
which would have considered the acceptability of alternative answers.

Mark schemes must be read in conjunction with the question papers and the report on the
examination.

• Cambridge will not enter into discussions or correspondence in connection with these mark schemes.

Cambridge is publishing the mark schemes for the October/November 2011 question papers for most
IGCSE, GCE Advanced Level and Advanced Subsidiary Level syllabuses and some Ordinary Level
syllabuses.
Page 2 Mark Scheme: Teachers’ version Syllabus Paper
GCE O LEVEL – October/November 2011 3248 01

Part 1: Directed Writing (15 marks)

The syllabus specifies that the candidates are to write about 150 words in Urdu.
Examiners are to read up to 200 words and ignore any further writing.
If one bullet point is not covered at all, then the maximum mark for language is 7.

Language (out of 9) Content (out of 6)

8–9 Very good 5–6 Very good


Confident use of complex sentence patterns; Detailed, clearly relevant and well illustrated;
generally accurate; extensive vocabulary; good coherently argued and structured.
sense of idiom.

6–7 Good 4 Good


Generally sound grasp of grammar in spite of Sound knowledge and generally relevant; some
quite a few lapses; reads reasonably; some ability to develop argument and draw
attempt at varied vocabulary and sentence conclusions.
patterns.

4–5 Adequate 3 Adequate


A tendency to be simple, clumsy or laboured; Some knowledge, but not always relevant; a
some degree of accuracy; inappropriate use of more limited capacity to argue.
idiom.

2–3 Poor 2 Poor


Consistently simple or pedestrian sentence Some attempt at argument, tends to be sketchy
patterns (basic sentence structure) with or unspecific; little attempt to structure an
persistent errors; limited vocabulary. argument; major misunderstanding of question.

0–1 Very poor 0–1 Very poor


Only the simplest sentence patterns; little Vague and general; ideas presented at random.
evidence of grammatical awareness; very limited
vocabulary.

© University of Cambridge International Examinations 2011


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GCE O LEVEL – October/November 2011 3248 01

Part 2: Letter, Report, Dialogue or Speech (20 marks)

The syllabus specifies that the candidates are to write about 200 words in Urdu.

Language (out of 15) Content (out of 5)

13–15 Very good 5 Very good


Confident use of complex sentence patterns; Detailed, clearly relevant and well illustrated;
generally accurate; extensive vocabulary; good coherently argued and structured.
sense of idiom.

10–12 Good 4 Good


Generally sound grasp of grammar in spite of Sound knowledge and generally relevant; some
quite a few lapses; reads reasonably; some ability to develop argument and draw
attempt at varied vocabulary and sentence conclusions.
patterns.

7–9 Adequate 3 Adequate


A tendency to be simple, clumsy or laboured; Some knowledge, but not always relevant; a
some degree of accuracy; inappropriate use of more limited capacity to argue.
idiom.

4–6 Poor 2 Poor


Consistently simple or pedestrian sentence Some attempt at argument, tends to be sketchy
patterns (basic sentence structure) with or unspecific; little attempt to structure an
persistent errors; limited vocabulary. argument; major misunderstanding of question.

0–3 Very poor 0–1 Very poor


Only the simplest sentence patterns; little Vague and general; ideas presented at random.
evidence of grammatical awareness; very limited
vocabulary.

© University of Cambridge International Examinations 2011


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GCE O LEVEL – October/November 2011 3248 01

Part 3: Translation (20 marks)

English Urdu accept

1 Many firms are producing less and losing money

2 because office staff spend too long

3 on social networking sites,

4 a government survey says.

5 The survey questioned 4,000 employees

6 between the ages of 21 and 60.

7 According to this survey,

8 workers use Facebook, MySpace

9 and other sites for “romancing”

10 and other purposes.

11 Office employees questioned in the survey

12 spent on average an hour a day on such sites,

13 leading to a loss of production of nearly 12%.

14 “As a matter of fact,

15 the growing use of these sites

16 can be dangerous for business,

17 and some IT companies

18 have already installed software

19 to restrict its use”,

20 a government spokesman said.

© University of Cambridge International Examinations 2011


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GCE O LEVEL – October/November 2011 3248 01

21 Nearly half of the office employees surveyed

22 accessed Facebook during work time.

23 Some 83% saw nothing wrong

24 in surfing the net at work during office hours.

25 Only 40% of employees interviewed

26 said that their companies

27 allowed staff full access

28 to social networking sites.

29 The survey also showed

30 that 84% of people surveyed

31 show signs of internet addiction:

32 they do not take breaks at appropriate times,

33 they spend more than a “normal” amount of time

34 online, and can get angry

35 if they are interrupted while surfing.

36 In September, a Town Council in England

37 banned staff from accessing Facebook on its computers

38 after it was revealed

39 they spent an average 400 hours

40 on the site every month.

As in any language translation there are different ways of translating to and from any language. This
example here gives a good sense of the original English. Examiners will need to read candidates’
work and judge how well the candidate had transferred the meaning of the original.
Mark each phrase out of 1 putting the mark in the margin. Add up the marks (out of 40) then divide by
2 to get a final mark out of 20.
NB This is not marked for written accuracy but for meaning.

© University of Cambridge International Examinations 2011

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