LITERATURE-IN-ENGLISH
EXAMINATION SCHEME
There will be three papers – Papers 1, 2 and 3. Papers 1 and 2 will be combined in a 1 hour 15
minutes composite paper and will be taken at one sitting
Paper 1 will be a multiple choice objective test. It will contain fifty questions distributed
as follows:
(a) Twenty questions on General Knowledge of Literature;
(b) Five questions on an unseen prose passage;
(c) Five questions on an unseen poem;
(d) Twenty context questions on the prescribed Shakespearean text.
Candidates will be required to answer all the questions within 1 hour for 50 marks.
Paper 2 will be an essay test with two sections, Sections A and B. Section A will be on
African Prose and Section B on Non African Prose.
Two essay questions will be set on each of the novels prescribed for study. Candidates
shall be required to answer one question only from each section within 1 hour 15
minutes for 50 marks.
Paper 3 will be on the Drama and Poetry components of the syllabus. It will be put into
four sections, Sections A, B. C and D as follows:
Section A: African Drama
Section B: Non-African Drama
Section C: African Poetry
Section D: Non-African Poetry
There shall be two questions on each of the prescribed texts for each section.
Candidates shall be required to answer one question from each of the sections, making
a total of four questions. The paper will take 2 hours 30 minutes to complete and will
carry 50 marks.