COMPETENCY BASED ASSESSMENT

MODEL QUESTION PAPERS

Key Stages 2

Department of Curriculum & Professional Development

Ministry of Education
Bhutan Council for School Examinations & Assessment
August 2021
 INTRODUCTION

The new curriculum grounded on the competency-based education has been implemented from
the 2021 academic session. It empowers learners with the intellectual, social, emotional and
behavioural competencies and transversal skills for holistic development as nationally rooted and
globally competent individuals. It is an attempt to transform the “product” based education to
“process” based learning through the pedagogy that emphasizes on learning of “how” than on the
teaching of “what”.

The Instructional Guide (IG) for the new curriculum is a transformative instruction that facilitates
competency-based learning through experiential learning approaches. Learners are engaged in
diverse learning experiences of exploration, investigation, analysis, and synthesis to generate new
knowledge and create innovative ideas of solving problems and of doing things differently. This
approach driven by digital technologies is vital towards bridging the gap between the “classroom”
teachings and learning with the “life realities” outside the classroom. It narrows the gap between
the taught and learnt knowledge and skills with the immediate challenges and opportunities in their
immediate environment and in the world. This makes learners aware and sensitive to the social,
political, economic, spiritual and global opportunities and challenges. Concurrently, assessment
practices should ensure that learners’ performance is assessed objectively with appropriate tools,
and gauge the quality of education and relevancy of educational resources. Inevitably, the
competency based learning approach necessitates the review and revision of assessment practices
and grading system and justify the elements of assessment in practice.

Assessment in our school system consists of formative and summative assessment. While the
Continuous Formative Assessment (CFA) is to help learners improve their learning through
rigorous authentic assessment and feedback and interventions, examinations are a summative
assessment process, where candidates can showcase their in-depth knowledge and proficiency in
a given subject or topic. The goal of a summative examination is to evaluate the learner learning
at the end of the course, and they could be the end of semester examinations or annual
examinations. Other types include, preparatory examination, targeted to those who are scheduled
to sit for high stakes examinations.

In order to align the examinations policies and practices with the new curriculum, the
examinations practices in terms of weighting and duration of examinations for all key stages are
reviewed taking into consideration of learner’s age group and individual differences. The
common concern and issue of coverage of syllabus due to the decrease in examination writing
time is addressed through the CBT items. By the genesis of competency-based assessment, a few
competency based test items can gauge wide range of conceptual knowledge, social and physical
competencies of students.
Weighting and duration of examinations

Numerous studies reveal that the:

i. lengthy test time may cause subjective fatigue that generally inhibits students in
performing well in test, consequently less accurate assessment outcomes.
ii. average number of test, test items, and time are progressive from lower to higher grades.
iii. average international test time for lower grades is equivalent to one instructional time, and
one and half hours for higher grades. Internationally, there is an evolving practice of
reducing the current test time of maximum three hours to ninety minutes.
iv. international emphasis is on “shorter and fewer” number of test and test items, which can
yield equally accurate and quicker test results.
v. average international test questions is five to ten for undergraduate students.
Based on the above premises, the weighting and duration of examinations for key stages 2 and 3
were amended based on the proportion of CFA with the Summative examinations (SA) for the
respective key stages. Unit tests or class tests shall be used for diagnostic assessment, and it shall
not be deemed as part of the CFA. The paper weighting and duration for key stages 4 and 5,
however, remain status quo owing to the mandatory highstakes examinations at the end of these
key stages.
Weighting and duration of examinations shall be as the following

Written Examination Conversion Term I Conversion Term II

Key Stage Subjects Time (Hr)
full marks) (in %) (in %)
Dzongkha 60 1.5 20 20
English 60 1.5 20 20
Mathematics 60 1.5 10 30
II
Science 50 1 15 15
Social Studies 50 1 15 15
ICT 40 1 10 10
Dzongkha I 80 2 30 30

Dzongkha II 80 2 30 30

English 80 2 30 30

III Mathematics 80 2 25 35

Science 70 1.5 20 20

ICT 50 1.5 10 20

History 70 1.5 15 25
Geography 70 1.5 20 20
Dzongkha I 100 3 35 35
IV
Dzongkha II 100 3 35 35
 English I 100 3 35 35
English II 100 3 35 35
Mathematics 100 3 35 35

ICT 100 2 20 20

Physics 100 2 30 30

Chemistry 100 2 30 30

Biology 100 2 30 30

History 100 2 25 35

Geography 100 2 30 30

Environmental Science 100 2 30 30

AgFS 100 2 20 20

Economics 100 2 30 30
LCSC 100 3 25 45
TVET Paper I 50 1 5 5
TVET Paper II 100 3 25 45
Dzongkha I 100 3 40 40
Dzongkha II 100 3 40 40
English I 100 3 40 40
English II 100 3 40 40

Mathematics 100 3 40 40

ICT 100 3 20 30

Physics 100 3 35 35

Chemistry 100 3 35 35

Biology 100 3 35 35

History 100 3 30 40
V
Geography 100 3 35 35

Commerce 100 3 30 30

Accountancy 100 3 35 35
Media Studies 100 3 30 30
Environmental Science 100 3 35 35
AgFS 100 3 25 25
Economics 100 3 35 35

Rigzhung (LCSC) 100 3 30 50

Rigzhung 100 3 40 40
TVET Paper I 50 1 5 5
TVET Paper II 100 3 25 45
Examination Test Items
With the main objective of helping teachers in the design and writing of CBT items, subject
specialists from the BCSEA and DCPD through consultation developed the CBT items for all
subjects for each key stages terminal classes.
The development of sample CBT papers in all subject is informed by the curriculum frameworks
and following broad underlying principles:
i. All the test items are CBT based on the concepts and principles of competency based
curriculum and assessment.
ii. Question pattern differs across the subjects as informed by the subject nature and the
corresponding characteristics.
iii. Understanding that assessment is giving students the opportunity to display their abilities
and potential, not as punishment, and that each of them have individual differences in
learning style, diversity in question types is emphasized. This is also to uphold the
inclusive education principles and the philosophy of education for all.
iv. The development of the CBT items initiate with the drawing up of test blueprint followed
by the writing of sample papers aligned with the paper format commonly used by the
examination body, e.g. BCSEA.
v. The weighting and duration for writing examination paper are informed by changes made
in the above table.
vi. The test items or tasks in the paper are generally contextualized to a wide range of
settings.
vii. The CBT items are designed to deploy multiple intellectual, social and physical skills in
solving the challenging tasks.
viii. Adopt a thematic approach to writing test items so that maximum conceptual knowledge,
skills and values judgment in the subjects are assessed with less number of test items.
MODEL QUESTIONS FOR ALL SUBJECTS FOR
THE KEY STAGE 2

DZONGKHA
 ༼རྫོང་ཁ་འདྲི་ཤྫོག་༽

སྫོབ་རིམ་༦ པ། ༢༠༢༡

རིག་རྩལ་ལྕོགས་གྲུབ་དབྱེ་ཞིབ་དཔྱེ་སྫོན་འདྲི་ཤྫོག།

ཆོས་ཚན་ རྫོང་ཁ། སྐུགས་སྫོམ་༦༠ །

སྫོབ་རིམ་༦ པ། དུས་ཡུན་ཆུ་ཚྫོད་༡.༣༠ །

མིང་ -----------------------------------------------------------------------------། ཨང་ ----------------------------------།

སྫོབ་གྲྭ་ -------------------------------------------------------------------------། སྡེ་ཚན་----------------------------------།

རྫོང་ཁག་ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------།

སྐུགས་བཀོད་ཤོག།

སྡེ་ཚན་ཀ། སྡེ་ཚན་ཁ།

འབྲི་རོམ། ཡིག་འགྲུལ། སྐད་ཡིག།

ཀ ཁ

སྐུགས་ཚད། ༡༠ ༨ ༣ ༡༢

སྐུགས་ཐོབ་པ།

སྡེ་ཚན་ག།

སྲུང་། འབྲི་རྩྫོམ། སྙན་རྩྫོམ། ཡྫོངས་སྫོམ།

ཀ ཁ ག ཀ ཁ ག ཀ ཁ ག

སྐུགས་ཚད། ༣ ༣ ༤ ༣ ༣ ༤ ༢ ༢ ༣ ༦༠

སྐུགས་ཐོབ་པ།
འོག་ལུ་བཀོད་ཡོད་མི་ བཀོད་རྒྱ་ཚུ་ ལེགས་ཤོམ་སྦེ་ལྷག།

༡. བྲི་ནི་ འགོ་མ་བཙུགས་པའི་ཧེ་མར སྐར་མ་༡༥ གི་རིང་ འདྲི་ཤོག་འདི་ ལེགས་ཤོམ་སྦེ་ ལྷག་སྟེ་བལྟ།

ལྷག་ཚར་བའི་ཤུལ་ལས་ བྲི་ནི་གི་དོན་ལུ་ དུས་ཡུན་ཆུ་ཚོད་༡.༣༠ ཡོད།

༢. དྲི་བའི་ ལན་ཚུ་ག་ར་ ས་སྫོང་ནང་ལུ་ ཧིང་སངས་ས་སྦེ་ བྲི་དགོ།

༣. འདྲི་ཤོག་འདི་ནང་ དྲི་བ་སྡེ་ཚན་ ཀ་ ཁ་ ག་ གསུམ་སྦེ་ཡོད།

༤. སྡེ་ཚན་ཀ། དྲི་བ་དང་པ། འབྲི་རྩྫོམ་དང་། གཉིས་པ་ ཡིག་འགྲུལ་ལུ་ དྲི་བ་༢ རེ་ཡྫོད་ས་ལས་ རེ་རེ་གདམ་ཁ་རྐྱབ་སྟེ་ བྲི་

དགོཔ་ཨིན།

༥. སྡེ་ཚན་ཁ། དྲི་བ་གསུམ་པ། ཀ་ ལན་གདམ་ཁ་ཅན་དང་། ཁ་ ལན་ཐུང་གི་དྲི་བའི་ལན་ག་ར་ ངེས་པར་བྲི་དགོ།

༦. སྡེ་ཚན་ག།

དྲི་བ་བཞི་པ། སྲུང་དང་གཏམ་རྒྱུད་ལུ་ ནང་གསེས་ ཀ་ཁ་ག་ གསུམ་ཡྫོད་ས་ལས་ ཀ་ ལན་གདམ་ཁ་ཅན་གྱི་ དྲི་བ་ག་

རའི་ལན་ ངེས་པར་བྲི་དགོ། ཁ་ ལན་ཐུང་གི་དྲི་བ་ ག་ར་གི་ལན་བྲི་དགོ། ག་ ལན་རིང་གི་ དྲི་བ་ ༣ ཡྫོད་ས་ལས་ ༢

ཀྱི་ ལན་བྲི་དགོ། དེ་འབདཝ་ད་ དྲི་བ་དང་པ་འདི་ ཨིན་ཅི་མིན་ཅི་ བྲི་དགོ།

དྲི་བ་ལྔ་པ། འབྲི་རྩྫོམ་ལུ་ ནང་གསེས་ ཀ་ཁ་ག་ གསུམ་ཡྫོད་ས་ལས་ ཀ་ ལན་གདམ་ཁ་ཅན་གྱི་དྲི་བ་ག་རའི་ལན་ ངེས་

པར་བྲི་དགོ། ཁ་ ལན་ཐུང་གི་དྲི་བ་ ག་ར་གི་ལན་བྲི་དགོ། ག་ ལན་རིང་གི་ དྲི་བ་ ༣ ཡྫོད་ས་ལས་ ༢ ཀྱི་ ལན་བྲི་དགོ།

དེ་འབདཝ་ད་ དྲི་བ་དང་པ་འདི་ ཨིན་ཅི་མིན་ཅི་ བྲི་དགོ།

དྲི་བ་དྲུག་པ། སྙན་རྩྫོམ་ལུ་ ནང་གསེས་ ཀ་ཁ་ག་ གསུམ་ཡྫོད་ས་ལས་ ཀ་ ལན་གདམ་ཁ་ཅན་གྱི་དྲི་བ་ག་རའི་ལན་ ངེས་

པར་བྲི་དགོ། ཁ་ ལན་ཐུང་ལུ་ དྲི་བ་ ༢ ག་ར་གི་ལན་བྲི་དགོ། ག་ ལན་རིང་གི་དྲི་བ་ ༢ ཡྫོད་ས་ལས་༡ གི་ལན་བྲི་དགོ།

སྡེ་ཚན་ཀ། བྲི་ནི། སྐུགས་༡༨ །

དྲི་བ་དང་པ། འབྲི་རྩྫོམ། སྐུགས་༡༠ །

བཀོད་རྒྱ། འོག་ལུ་བཀོད་ཡོད་མི་ དོན་ཚན་༢ ལས་༡ གདམ་ཁ་རྐྱབ་སྦེ་ ཚིག་འབྲུ་༡༥༠ ལས་མ་ཉུངམ་ཅིག་བྲི་དགོཔ་ཨིན།

༼གསར་རྩྫོམ་༽

ཀ) ཁྱོད་ སོབ་རིམ་ལྔ་པ་ནང་སོད་པའི་སྐབས་ལུ་ ག་ཅི་ར་འབད་ཡི་ག? དེའི་སྐོར་ལས་ ལོ་རྒྱུས་འབྲི་རོམ་ཅིག་བྲིས།

ཁ) རང་སོའི་གཡུས་ཀྱི་སྐོར་ལས་ བཤད་པ་རྐྱབ་སྟེ་ འགྲེལ་བཤད་འབྲི་རོམ་ཅིག་བྲིས།

ལན།
དྲི་བ་གཉིས་པ། ཡིག་འགྲུལ། སྐུགས་༨ །

བཀོད་རྒྱ། འྫོག་གི་ཡིག་འགྲུལ་དྫོན་ཚན་༢ ལས་༡ གདམ་ཁ་རྐྱབ་ བྲི་དགོཔ་ཨིན། ༼ལག་ལེན་༽

ཁ) ཁྱིམ་ནང་ སྟབས་མ་བདེཝ་ཅིག་ཐོན་ཏེ་ སོབ་གྲྭ་ནང་འོང་མ་ཚུགས་པའི་ སྐོར་ལས་ སོབ་སྡེའི་སོབ་དཔོན་ལུ་ ངལ་གསོའི་

ཞུ་ཡིག་ཅིག་བྲིས།

ཞུ་ཡིག་ནང་ ཚུད་དགོ་པའི་ གནད་དྫོན་ཚུ།

▪ ཞུ་ཡིག་ག་ལུ་ བྲིཝ་ཨིན་ན? དེ་གི་ཁ་བྱང་དང་ འབྲི་མི་རང་གི་ཁ་བྱང་།

▪ སྟབས་མ་བདེ་བའི་ གནད་དོན་ ག་ཅི་ཐོན་ཡི་ག?

▪ ངལ་གསོ་ཉིནམ་ ག་དེམ་ཅིག་ དགོཔ་ཨིན་ན?

▪ ཞུ་ཡིག་ཕུལ་བའི་ཟླ་ཚེས།

ག) དུས་ཅི་ ལོ་ཕྱེད་ཆོས་རྒྱུགས་འདི་ ག་དེ་སྦེ་སོང་ཡི་ག? དེའི་སྐོར་ ཁྱོད་རའི་ཆ་རོགས་ལུ་ གནས་ཚུལ་གྱི་ ཡི་གུ་

ཅིག་བྲིས།

གཏང་ཡིག་ནང་ ཚད་དགོ་པའི་གནད་དྫོན་ཚུ།

▪ གཏང་ཡིག་ག་ལུ་ བྲིཝ་ཨིན་ན? དེ་གི་ཁ་བྱང་དང་ འབྲི་མི་རང་གི་ཁ་བྱང་།

▪ ཆོས་ཚན་ ག་ཅིའི་ནང་ ལེགས་ཤོམ་སོང་ཡི་ག?

▪ ཆོས་ཚན་ ག་ཅིའི་ནང་ ལེགས་ཤོམ་མ་འགྱོཝ་ཨིན་ན? ཁུངས།

▪ གཏང་ཡིག་ བསྐྱལ་བའི་ཟླ་ཚེས།

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སྡེ་ཚན་ཁ། སྐད་ཡིག་དང་ཡིག་སོར། སྐུགས་༡༥ །

དྲི་བ་གསུམ་པ། འྫོག་གི་དྲི་བ་ ཀ་དང་ཁའི་ ལན་བྲི་ནི།

ཀ) ལན་གདམ་ཁ་ཅན་གྱི་དྲི་བ། སྐུགས་༡x༣=༣ །

བཀོད་རྒྱ། འྫོག་གི་ དྲི་བ་རེ་ལུ་ ལན་ ཀ་ཁ་ག་ང་ འབད་༤ རེ་བཀོད་དེ་ ཡྫོད་ས་ལས། ལན་ངོ་མ་༡ ཡྫོད་མི་འདི་ གདམ་ཁ་རྐྱབ་སྟེ་

ཀ་རྟགས་གུ་ སྒོར་ཐིག་ ࿀ འདི་བཟུམ་བཀལ།

༡) རྒྱ་སྐྱེད་འདི་མིང་ཨིན། མིང་འདི་་་་ ༼དྲན་ཤེས་༽

ཀ མིང་གཉིས་གཅིག་ཁར་སྦྲགས་ཏེ་གྲུབ་པའི་མིང་ཨིན།

ཁ མིང་གི་ཧེ་མ་བྱ་ཚིག་ལས་བརྟེན་ཏེ་གྲུབ་པའི་མིང་ཨིན།

ག མིང་གི་ཤུལ་མ་བྱ་ཚིག་ལས་བརྟེན་ཏེ་གྲུབ་པའི་མིང་ཨིན།

ང བྱ་ཚིག་གཉིས་གཅིག་ཁར་སྦྲགས་ཏེ་གྲུབ་པའི་མིང་ཨིན།

༢) འོག་གི་ཚུ་ལས་ དུས་མ་འོངས་པའི་ ཡིག་སྡེབ་འདི་་་་་ ༼དྲན་ཤེས་༽

ཀ དྲིས་ཨིན།

ཁ འདྲི་ཨིན།

ག དྲི་ཨིན།

ང་ འདྲིས་ཨིན།

༣) མིང་མཐའ་ ཟེར་སབ་དགོ་མི་འདི་་་ ༼གོ་རྟྫོགས་༽

ཀ མིང་གི་ཧེ་མ་འཇུག་མིའི་ཡི་གུ་འདི་ལུ་སབ་ཨིན།

ཁ མིང་གི་ཤུལ་མ་འཇུག་མིའི་ཡི་གུ་འདི་ལུ་སབ་ཨིན།

ག མིང་དང་གཅིག་ཁར་འཇུག་མིའི་ཡི་གུ་འདི་ལུ་སབ་ཨིན།

ང མིང་འགྲུབ་ནི་ལུ་ཆ་རྫོགས་འབད་མིའི་ཡི་གུ་འདི་ལུ་སབ་ཨིན།
ཁ) ལན་ཐུང་གི་དྲི་བ། སྐུགས་༤x༣=༡༢ །

བཀོད་རྒྱ། འྫོག་གི་ དྲི་བ་༣ གྱི་ལན་ལན་བྲི་ནི།

༡) མིང་མཐའ་དང་ བདག་སྒྲ་གི་གོ་དོན་བྲིས། ༼གོ་རྟྫོགས་༽

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༢) ཚིག་མཛྫོད་ལག་ལེན། ༼ལག་ལེན་༽

ལྟག་གི་ བྱ་ཚིག་གི་ གོ་དྫོན་ལྷག་ཞིནམ་ལས། ཨང་དང་འཁྲིལ་ཏེ་ འཇུག་ཚུལ་༤ གི་དཔེར་བརྗོད་རེ་བྲིས།

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༣) འྫོག་གི་རྗོད་ཚིག་ནང་ བྱ་ཚིག་ག་འདི་ ཕྫོག་ནི་མས་ག? གདམ་ཁ་རྐྱབ་སྟེ་ ཟུར་ཁ་གི་གུག་ཤད་ནང་བྲིས། ༼དབྱེ་དཔྱད་༽

༡. གནས་ [སྐོར་/བསྐོར་] རྐྱབ་པར་འགྱོཝ་ཨིནམ་མས། ( )

༢. ཡི་གུ་ [བྲི་/བྲིས་/འབྲི་] ནི་ལུ་མཁས་དྲགས་འདུག། ( )

༣. མནྫོ་བསམ་ [བཏང་/གཏང་] སྫོད་ནུག། ( )

༤. བྲིས་/བྲི་/འབྲི་] ནུག། ཟེར་ཨིནམ་མས། ( )

༤) སྐད་ཡིག་འདི་ལེགས་ཤྫོམ་སྦེ་ ཤེས་པ་ཅིན་ ཕན་ཐྫོགས་ག་ཅི་ར་འྫོང་ནི་མས? ཁུངས་བཀལ། ༼དབྱེ་དཔྱད་༽

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སྡེ་ཚན་ག། ལྷག་རིག་དང་རོམ་རིག། སྐུགས་༢༧ །

དྲི་བ་བཞི་པ། སྲུང་དང་གཏམ་རྒྱུད། སྐུགས་༡༠ །

བཀོད་རྒྱ། སྫོབ་དེབ་ནང་ཡྫོད་པའི་སྲུང་ཚུ་ལུ་ གཞི་བཞག་སྟེ་ འྫོག་གི་དྲི་བ་ཚུ་གི་ ལན་བྲིས།

ཀ) ལན་གདམ་ཁ་ཅན་གྱི་དྲི་བ། སྐུགས་༡x༢=༢ །

བཀོད་རྒྱ། འྫོག་གི་ དྲི་བ་རེ་ལུ་ ལན་ ཀ་ཁ་ག་ང་༤ རེ་བཀོད་དེ་ ཡྫོད་ས་ལས་ ལན་ངོ་མ་༡ ཡྫོད་མི་འདི་ གདམ་ཁ་རྐྱབ་སྟེ་ ཀ་

རྟགས་གུ་ སྒོར་ཐིག་ ࿀ འདི་བཟུམ་བཀལ།

༡) འདྲེ་གདོང་དཀར་གྱི་ སྲུང་རྩེདཔ་གཉིས་ཀྱི་མིང་ ༼དྲན་ཤེས་༽

ཀ ཀུན་ལེགས་དང་ཚེ་རིང་ཨིན།

ཁ ཀུན་དགའ་དང་དབང་མོ་ཨིན།

ག ཀུན་བཟང་དང་དོན་གྲུབ་ཨིན།

ང ཀུན་མཐུན་དང་འདྲོག་ཟེ་ཨིན།

༢) དྲུངམ་གི་ ཆིབས་ ཉི་མའི་གདོང་ཅན་ ཟེར་ སབ་དགོ་མི་འདི་་་ ༼གོ་རོགས་༽

ཀ ཉིམ་ར་བསོ་སྟེ་སོད་ནི་དེ་གིས་ཨིན།

ཁ ཉིམ་ལུ་གདོང་བསྒོར་ཏེ་སོད་ནི་དེ་གིས་ཨིན།

ག གདོང་ཐད་སྒོར་སྒོར་འབད་ཡོད་ནི་དེ་གིས་ཨིན།

ང གདོང་མགུར་ཉིམ་བཟུམ་མའི་མཚན་རགས་ཡོད་ནི་དེ་གིས་ཨིན།

ཁ༽ ལན་ཐུང་གི་དྲི་བ། ༼སྐུགས་༤༽

བཀོད་རྒྱ། འྫོག་གི་ དྲི་བ་ཚུ་གི་ལན་བྲིས།

༡) ཤོབ་རྐྱབ་མ་བཏུབ་པའི་ དོན་དག་ ག་ཅི་ཨིན་ན? བྲིས། (༡) ༼གོ་རོགས་༽

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༢) ཁྱོད་ཀྱི་ ཆ་རོགས་ངན་པ་ཨིན་པ་ཅིན། ལེགས་ཤོམ་ག་དེ་སྦེ་ བཟོ་ནི་སོ? ཐབས་ཤེས་༢ བྲིས། (༡.༥) ༼ལག་ལེན་༽

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༣) འདྲྫོག་ཟེ་གི་མི་ཚེའི་ནང་ འགྱུར་བ་ག་ཅི་ར་བྱུང་ནུག? རྗོད་ཚིག་༢ བྲིས། (༡.༥) ༼དབྱེ་དཔྱད་༽

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ག) ལན་རིང་གི་དྲི་བ། སྐུགས་༢x༢=༤ །

བཀོད་རྒྱ། འྫོག་གི་ དྲི་བ་༡ པའི་ལན་ ཨིན་ཅི་མིན་ཅི་བྲི་དགོ། དྲི་བ་༢ པ་དང་༣ པ་ལས་ ༼གཅིག་༽ གདམ་ཁ་རྐྱབ་སྟེ་ ལན་བྲིས།

༡) འདྲོག་ཟེ་ འདྲོག་མ་བཅུག་པར་ དཔེ་ཆ་བལྟ་བཅུག་ནིའི་ཐབས་ཤེས་༢ བྲིས། ༼ལག་ལེན་༽

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༢) ཀུན་མཐུན་དང་འདྲོག་ཟེ་གཉིས་ཀྱི་ བྱ་སོད་ལུ་ ཁྱད་པར་ག་དེ་སྦེ་ར་འདུག? རྗོད་ཚིག་༢ བྲིས། ༼དབྱེ་དཔྱད་༽

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༣) སྲུང་རྩེདཔ་བུཚ་སྐལ་ལྡན་འདི་ སྫོབ་གྲྭ་ནང་མ་འཛུལ་བའི་ཧེ་མ་དང་། འཛུལ་ཚར་བའི་ཤུལ་ལས་ ཁྱད་པར་ག་ཅི་ར་འདུག་ག?

བྲིས། ༼དབྱེ་དཔྱད༽

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དྲི་བ་ལྔ་པ། འབྲི་རྩྫོམ། སྐུགས་༡༠ །

བཀོད་རྒྱ། འྫོག་གི་ འབྲི་རྩྫོམ་འདི་ ལྷག་ཞིནམ་ལས་ དྲི་བ་ཚུའི་ལན་བྲི་ནི།

༉ རྨ་བྱ་འདི་ བྱའི་ནང་ལས་ ལེགས་ཤྫོས་དང་ འཇའ་ཤྫོས་ཅིག་ཨིན། རྨ་བྱ་འདི་འཇའ་ཆི་ཆི་ཡྫོད་པའི་ དཔེ་བཞག་ས་ཅིག་ཨིན།

ང་བཅས་རའི་ ཞབས་ཁྲ་ཚུ་ནང་ཡང་ རྨ་བྱའི་སྐོར་ལས་འཐེན་ནི་ཡྫོད། རྨ་བྱ་ལུ་ ཨོལ་ལྐོག་རིངམྫོ་དང་ མིག་ཏྫོ་ཆུང་ཀུ་སྦེ་འྫོང་། ཁོང་

གི་མགུ་ཏྫོ་ཁར་ ཟེ་སྒྲོ་འདི་ རིགས་ལྔ་ཆུང་ཀུ་ཅིག་ བཟུམ་སྦེ་འྫོང་། རྨ་བྱ་གི་ མཇུག་སྒྲོ་འདི་ རིངམོ་སྦེ་ འཇའ་ཆི་ཆི་ཡྫོད། འཕྲལ་

འཕྲལ་ཁོང་གི་ མཇུག་སྒྲོ་ཚུ་ གནམ་ཁར་ཟིང་སྟེ་ ག་ནི་བ་ལེགསཔ་ སྫོན་ནི་ཡྫོད།

མཇུག་སྒྲོ་ཚུ་གུ་ བཀྱག་མཚར་བའི་ཁྲ་ཚུ་ གནམ་ཁའི་ཟླཝ་ ཁ་མ་གངམ་བཟུམ་སྦེ་ ལེ་ཤ་ཡྫོད། རྨ་བྱ་ཚུ་ སྤྱིར་བཏང་བྱ་གཞན་ཚུ་དང་

འཕྱདཔ་ད། གཟུགས་ལྕི་དྲགས་ཡྫོདཔ་ལས་ ཁོང་གིས་ བྱ་གཞན་བཟུམ་ གནམ་ཁ་ལུ་ ཤུགས་སྦེ་འཕུར་མི་ཚུགསཔ་ཨིན། རྨ་བྱ་མྫོ་

ཚུ་ལུ་ མཇུག་སྒྲོ་དང་ མགུ་ཏྫོ་ཁར་ ཟེ་སྒྲོ་ཚུ་མི་འྫོང་།

རྨ་བྱ་གི་སྒྲོ་ཚུ་ མི་ག་གིས་ཡང་ མ་དགའཝ་མེད། མི་ལ་ལུ་ཅིག་གིས་ རྨ་བྱའི་མཇུག་སྒྲོ་ཚུ་ ཁྱིམ་ལེགས་ཤྫོམ་མཐྫོང་ནིའི་ རྒྱན་ཆ་སྦེ་

དཔྱངས་ཏེ་ བཞགཔ་ཨིན། ང་བཅས་ར་འབྲུག་པའི་མི་ཚུ་གིས་ རྨ་བྱའི་མཇུག་སྒྲོ་འདི་ཚུ་ བུམ་པའི་སྒྲོན་གཡབ་སྦེ་ ལག་ལེན་འཐབ་

ཨིན། བུམ་པའི་སྒྲོན་གཡབ་འདི་ མཆོད་བཤམ་ནང་ བུམ་པའི་རྒྱན་ཆ་སྦེ་བཞགཔ་ཨིན།

རྨ་བྱ་འདི་ཚུ་ ལྡུམ་ར་ནང་ལས་ཕར་ སྫོདཔ་ཨིན། ཁོང་གིས་ འབུཔ་དང་ སྦུལ་ཚུ་བཟའཝ་ཨིན། གནམ་ཁ་ལུ་ ས་སྨུག་སྤུབས།

འབྲུག་ལྡིརཝ་ད། རྨ་བྱ་ཚུ་སེམས་དགའ་སྟེ་ ཞབས་ཁྲ་རྐྱབ་ཨིན། རྨ་བྱ་ཚུ་ ས་དྲྫོད་ཆེ་སར་སྫོད་མི་ཅིག་ཨིན། མི་ཚུ་གིས་ རྨ་བྱ་འདི་

གཅེས་པའི་ བྱ་སྦེ་གསྫོཝ་ཨིན།
ཀ༽ ལན་གདམ་ཁ་ཅན་གྱི་དྲིབ། སྐུགས་༡x༣=༣ །

བཀོད་རྒྱ། འྫོག་གི་ དྲི་བ་རེ་ལུ་ ལན་ ཀ་ཁ་ག་ང་༤ རེ་བཀོད་དེ་ ཡྫོད་ས་ལས། ལན་ངོ་མ་༡ ཡྫོད་མི་འདི་ གདམ་ཁ་རྐྱབ་སྟེ་

ཀ་རྟགས་གུ་ སྒོར་ཐིག་ ࿀ འདི་བཟུམ་བཀལ།

༡) བུམ་པའི་ སྒྲོན་གཡབ་སྦེ་ ལག་ལེན་འཐབ་བཏུབ་མི་འདི་ ༼དྲན་ཤེས་༽

ཀ རྨ་བྱའི་རིགས་ལྔ་ཨིན།

ཁ རྨ་བྱའི་མཇུག་སྒྲོ་ཨིན།

ག རྨ་བྱའི་གཤྫོག་སྒྲོ་ཨིན།

ང་ རྨ་བྱའི་ཟེ་སྒྲོ་ཨིན།

༢) སྒྲོན་གཡབ་ ཟེར་མི་འདི་་་་ ༼གོ་རོགས་༽

ཀ བུམ་པའི་ཨོལ་ལྐོག་གི་མིང་ཨིན།

ཁ བུམ་པའི་ཁ་རྒྱན་གྱི་མིང་ཨིན།

ག བུམ་པའི་གཤམ་གྱི་མིང་ཨིན།

ང་ བུམ་པ་གི་མིང་ཨིན།

ཁ༽ ལན་ཐུང་གི་དྲི་བ། སྐུགས་༤ །

བཀོད་རྒྱ། འྫོག་གི་ དྲི་བ་ཚུ་གི་ལན་བྲི་ནི།

༡) རྨ་བྱ་ཚུ་ སེམས་དགའ་སྟེ་ ཞབས་ཁྲ་རྐྱབ་དགོ་པའི་ དྫོན་དག་ ག་ཅི་སྫོ? (༡) ༼གོ་རོགས་༽

ལན།
༢) ཁྱོད་ལུ་ རྨ་བྱ་གཅིག་ཡོད་པ་ཅིན། ག་དེ་སྦེ་ལག་ལེན་འཐབ་ནི་སོ? ཐབས་ལམ་༢ བྲིས། (༡.༥) ༼ལག་ལེན་༽

ལན།

༣) འོག་གི་ ཐིག་སྒྲོམ་ནང་ འགྲེལ་བཤད་འབྲི་རོམ་དང་ ལོ་རྒྱུས་འབྲི་རོམ་གྱི་ ཁྱད་རྣམ་རེ་རེ་ བྲིས། (༡.༥) ༼དབྱེ་དཔྱད་༽

ལྫོ་རྒྱུས། འགྲེལ་བཤད།
ག) ལན་རིང་གི་དྲི་བ། སྐུགས་༢x༢=༤ །

བཀོད་རྒྱ། འྫོག་གི་ དྲི་བ་༡ པའི་ལན་ ཨིན་ཅི་མིན་ཅི་བྲི་དགོ། དྲི་བ་༢ པ་དང་༣ པ་ལས་ ༼གཅིག་༽ གདམ་ཁ་རྐྱབ་སྟེ་
ལན་བྲིས།

༡) ལྟག་གི་འབྲི་རོམ་འདི་ དབྱེ་བ་ག་ཅི་ནང་ཚུདཔ་སོ? ག་ཅི་འབད? ༼དབྱེ་དཔྱད་༽

ལན།

༢) རྨ་བྱ་ཚུ་ བྱའི་ནང་ལས་ ལེགས་ཤོས་ཅིག་ཨིན། ཟེར་མི་འདི་ལུ་ ཁྱོད་ཀྱིས་ ཆ་བཞག་འོང་ག? ག་ཅི་འབད?

༼དབྱེ་ཞིབ་༽

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༣) འབྲི་རོམ་གྱི་ དབྱེ་བ་མ་འདྲཝ་ཚུ་ ཤེས་དགོཔ་ཁག་ཆེ་བས་ག? ག་ཅི་འབད? ༼དབྱེ་ཞིབ༽

ལན།

དྲི་བ་དྲུག་པ། སྙན་རོམ། སྐུགས་༧ །

བཀོད་རྒྱ། འྫོག་གི་ ཞབས་ཁྲ་འདི་ ལྷག་ཞིནམ་ལས་ དྲི་བ་ཚུའི་ལན་བྲི་ནི།

༉ གནས་ལ་དང་པ་མི་ཆགས་དང་པ་ཆགས།། གནས་ལ་དང་པ་སྤ་གྲོ་སག་ཚང་ཆགས།། ལྷ་གཅིག་ཨོ་རྒྱན་པད་མའི་བཀའ་དྲིན་

གྱིས།། སན་ལྗོངས་དག་པའི་ཞིང་དུ་བྱིན་གྱིས་བརླབས།། སངས་རྒྱས་བསན་པ་དར་བའི་རྟེན་འབྲེལ་བཟང་།། འགྱུར་བ་མེད་པའི་

བཀྲིས་སྫོན་ལམ་ཞུ།། གནས་ལ་གཉིས་པ་མི་ཆགས་གཉིས་པ་ཆགས།། གཉིས་པ་སྤུངས་ཐང་བདེ་ཆེན་ཕྫོ་བྲང་ཆགས།། སྐྱབས་

མགོན་ངག་དབང་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་བཀྲིན་གྱིས།། ཆོས་སྲིད་ལུགས་གཉིས་བསན་པའི་ལམ་སྫོལ་བཙུགས།། རྒྱལ་ཁབ་རང་དབང་ཐྫོབ་

པའི་རྟེན་འབྲེལ་བཟང་།། འགྱུར་བ་མེད་པའི་བཀྲིས་སྫོན་ལམ་ཞུ།། གནས་ལ་གསུམ་པ་མི་ཆགས་གསུམ་པ་ཆགས།། གསུམ་པ་

བདེ་ཆེན་ཆོས་གླིང་ཕྫོ་བྲང་ཆགས།། མི་དབང་འཇིགས་མེད་སེངྒེའི་བཀྲིན་གྱིས།། དབང་ཆ་ཕྱིར་སྤེལ་རྩ་ཁྲིམས་ཆེན་མྫོ་བརྩམས།།

རང་བཙན་ཡུན་དུ་གནས་པའི་རྟེན་འབྲེལ་བཟང་།། འགྱུར་བ་མེད་པའི་བཀྲིས་སྫོན་ལམ་ཞུ།། །།
ཀ༽ ལན་གདམ་ཁ་ཅན་གྱི་དྲི་བ། སྐུགས་༡x༢=༢ །

བཀོད་རྒྱ། འྫོག་གི་ དྲི་བ་རེ་ལུ་ ལན་ ཀ་ཁ་ག་ང་༤ རེ་བཀོད་དེ་ ཡྫོད་ས་ལས། ལན་ངོ་མ་༡ ཡྫོད་མི་འདི་ གདམ་ཁ་རྐྱབ་སྟེ་

ཀ་རྟགས་གུ་ སྒོར་ཐིག་ ࿀ འདི་བཟུམ་བཀལ།

༡) དག་པའི་ཞིང་། ཟེར་མིའདིའི་ དྫོན་བཏྫོན་ཚུགས་མི་ཚིག་ ་་་་་་་་་་་་ ཨིན། ༼དྲན་ཤེས༽

ཀ ལྷའི་གཡུས།

ཁ མིའི་གཡུས།

ག ཀླུ་ཡི་གཡུས།

ང ལྷ་མིན་གྱི་གཡུས།

༢) ལམ་སྫོལ། ཟེར་མི་འདི་་་་་་ ༼གོ་རྟྫོགས༽

ཀ བཟང་པྫོའི་ལམ་ལུགས་འདི་ལུ་སབ་ཨིན།

ཁ ལམ་སྫོལ་ལེགས་ཤྫོམ་འདི་ལུ་སབ་ཨིན།

ག སྫོལ་བཟང་པྫོ་འདི་ལུ་སབ་ཨིན།

ང ལུགས་སྫོལ་འདི་ལུ་སབ་ཨིན།

ཁ༽ ལན་ཐུང་གི་དྲི་བ། སྐུགས་ ༡x༢=༢ །

བཀོད་རྒྱ། འྫོག་གི་ དྲི་བ་ ༢ ཀྱི་ལན་བྲི་ནི།

༡) ཞབས་ཁྲ་ནང་ལས་ མི་དབང་འཇིགས་མེད་སེང་གེ་གི་ཕྱག་ལཱ་༢ བྲིས། ༼གོ་རྟྫོགས་༽

ལན།
༢) ཞབས་ཁྲའི་གོ་དྫོན་དང་འཁྲིལ་ཏེ་ འྫོག་གི་ཐིག་ཁྲམ་ ཀ་དང་ཁ་ནང་ཡྫོད་མའི་ཚིག་ཚུ་ མཐུན་སྒྲིག་འབད། ༼དབྱེ་དཔྱད་༽

ཀ་ ཁ་

༡, ཆོས་སྲིད་ལམ་ལུགས་བཙུགས་ཏེ་ རྒྱལ་
བདེ་ཆེན་ཆོས་གླིང་ཆགས་ནི་ དེ་གིས་ཨིན།
ཁབ་རང་དབང་འཐྫོབ་མི་འདི།

༢. ཁྲིམས་བརྩམས་ཏེ་ རང་དབང་ཡུན་དུ་
སྤུང་ཐང་བདེ་ཆེན་ཆགས་ནི་ དེ་གིས་ཨིན།
གནས་མི་འདི།

དབང་ཆ་ཕྱིར་སྤེལ་བརྩམ་ནི་ དེ་གིས་ཨིན།

ག༽ ལན་རིང་གི་དྲི་བ། སྐུགས་༣x༡=༣ །

བཀོད་རྒྱ། འྫོག་གི་ དྲི་བ་༢ ལས་༡ གདམ་ཁ་རྐྱབ་སྟེ་ ལན་བྲི་ནི།

༡) རང་མོ་འདི་ ད་ལྟོ་གི་གནས་སྟངས་ནང་ལུ་ ལག་ལེན་འཐབ་དགོཔ་འདུག་ག? ག་ཅི་འབད? ༼དབྱེ་ཞིབ་༽

ལན།

༢) ཁྱོད་ཀྱི་མི་ཚེ་ནང་ལུ་ སྙན་རོམ་འདི་ ཁག་ཆེ་ནི་མས་ག? ག་ཅི་འབད? ༼དབྱེ་ཞིབ་༽

ལན།

རྫོགས་སྫོ།།
 སློབ་རིམ་༦ པའི་དྲི་བཀོད་འཆར་གཞི་རེའུ་མིག། (ཆོས་ཚན་རྩ་གཞུང་གསརཔ་རློང་ཁ་) ༢༠༢༡
རིག་སྟོབས། གསར་
དྟོན་ཚན། དྲན་ཤེས། གོ་རྟོགས། ལག་ལེན། དབྱེ་དཔྱད། དབྱེ་ཞིབ། སྟོམ།
དྟོན་ཚན། རྟོམ།
༡-༢
དྲི་བ་༡ པ། འབྲི་རྩོམ། (༡༠) ༢ (༡༠)
སྡེ་ཚན་ ཀ་ བྲི་ནི། (༡༨) (༡༠)
དྲི་བ་༢ པ། ཡིག་འགྲུལ། (༨) དྲི་བ་༡-༢ (༨) ༢ (༨)

སྡེ་ཚན་ ཁ་ སྐད་ཡིག། དྲི་བ་༣ པ་ ཀ། ལན་གདམ་ཁ་ཅན། (༣) ༡-༢ (༢) ༣ (༡) ༣ (༣)

(༡༥) དྲི་བ་༣ པ་ ཁ། ལན་ཐུང་། (༡༢) ༡ (༣) ༢ (༣) ༣,༤ (༣+༣) ༤ (༡༢)

སྡེ་ཚན་ ག་ ལྷག་རིག་ དྲི་བ་༤ པ་ ཀ) ལན་གདམ་ཁ་ཅན། (༢) ༡ (༡) ༢ (༡) ༢ (༢)

དང་རྟོམ་རིག། ཁ) ལན་ཐུང་། (༤) ༡ (༡) ༢ (༡.༥) ༣ (༡.༥) ༣ (༤)

སྲུང་དང་གཏམ་རྒྱུད། (༡༠) ག) ལན་རིང། (༦) ༡ (༢) ༢,༣ (༤) ༣ (༦)

སྡེ་ཚན་ ག་ ལྷག་རིག་ དྲི་བ་༥ པ། ཀ) ལན་གདམ་ཁ་ཅན། (༢) ༡ (༡) ༢ (༡) ༢ (༢)

དང་རྟོམ་རིག། ཁ) ལན་ཐུང་། (༤) ༡ (༡) ༢ (༡.༥) ༣ (༡.༥) ༣ (༤)

འབྲི་རྟོམ། (༡༠) ག) ལན་རིང་། (༦) ༡ (༢) ༢,༣ (༢+༢) ༣ (༦)

སྡེ་ཚན་ ག་ ལྷག་རིག་ དྲི་བ་༦ པ། ཀ) ལན་གདམ་ཁ་ཅན། (༢) ༡ (༡) ༢ (༡) ༢ (༢)

དང་རྟོམ་རིག། ཁ) ལན་ཐུང་། (༢) ༡ (༡) ༢ (༡) ༢ (༢)

སྙན་རྟོམ། (༧) ག) ལན་རིང། (༦) ༡,༢ (༣+༣) ༢ (༦)

སྟོམ། ༥ (༥) ༨ (༡༠) ༦ (༡༦) ༨ (༡༦) ༤ (༡༠) ༢ (༡༠) ༣༣ (༦༧)

དྲན་གསོ། གུག་ཤད་ནང་གི་ཨང་ཡིག་ཚུ་ སྐུགས་དང་། ཕྱི་ཁ་གི་ཚུ་ དྲི་བའི་གྱངས་ཁ་ཨིན།

ENGLISH
 COMPETENCY BASED ASSESSMENT TEST

SUBJECT: ENGLISH TOTAL MARKS: 60

CLASS: VI TIME: 1 HOUR 30 MINS

Name: ___________________________________ Roll No. ______________

School: __________________________________ Section: ______________

Dzongkhag: ______________________________ Gender:______________

For Teacher Use Only

A (Writing)
Section B (Language) C (Short Story)
Essay Letter

QI QII QIII
Question QI QII QI QII QIII QIV
i ii iii i ii iii i ii iii

Mark 10 8 3 2 5 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 2 2

Mark
scored

Initial

Total
score

Section C (Essay) C (Poetry)

QI QII QIII QI QII QIII

Question
i ii iii i ii iii i ii iii i ii i ii i ii

Mark 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 2 2 1 1 2 1 3 3

Mark
scored

Initial

Total score

Final score:

Initial of the tabulator:

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 READ THE FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS CAREFULLY:

1. Do not write during the first fifteen minutes. This time is to be spent on reading the
questions.

2. Answers to all the questions must be written neatly in the spaces provided.

3. In this paper, there are three sections: A, B and C. All questions in section A and
B are compulsory.

4. Section C has three genres: Short Stories, Essay and Poetry. Each genre has
Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ), Short Answer Questions (SAQ) and
Extended Response Questions (ERQ).

5. All MCQs and SAQs are compulsory. For Short Story and Essay, attempt TWO
ERQs from the THREE given choices. For Poetry, attempt ONE ERQ from
TWO given choices.

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 SECTION A
Writing

Question I [10]
Direction: Write an essay or a story of about 150 words on any ONE of the topics given
below.

i. Complete the story beginning with

‘It was late in the evening and I was heading home from school. I saw a girl
coming from the other side...’

ii. Life is full of experiences and you come across both good and bad times. Write
about your most unforgetable experience.

Question II [8]
Direction: You are Kezang, a class VI student in Dhensa Primary School, Trongsa. Write
a letter on any ONE of the topics given below.

i. Your friend Sangay is studying in Jampeling High School, Haa. Write a letter
thanking her for the books that she lent to you during the summer break. Mention
how the books helped you to spend the vacation.

ii. One of the schools in your village was recently upgraded to a central school. Write
a letter to your principal requesting that you want to study in that central school.
Mention the reasons for your change of school.

SECTION B: LANGUAGE AND GRAMMAR

(12 Marks)

Question I [3]
Direction: For each question, there are FOUR responses: A, B, C and D. Choose the
corresponding alphabet of your response and CIRCLE it neatly. No scores will be
awarded if you circle more than one.

i. What is the past tense of ‘shut’?

A shutted
B shuted
C shot
D shut

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 ii. What part of speech is the word ‘theirs’?
A demonstrative pronoun
B possesseive pronoun
C reflective pronoun
D indefinite pronoun

iii. A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a

A verb.
B noun.
C adverb.
D adjective.

[2]
Question II
Direction: Identify the errors in the sentences given below and rewrite them correctly.

i. She do her homework every night.

ii. She told that I is her only friend.

[5]
Question III
Direction: Rewrite each of the following sentences according to the instructions given in
the brackets.

i. Sonam said that she was very busy then. (change to direct speech)

ii. The boys are playing football. (change to past continuous tense)

iii. The woman is reading, __________________? (wasn’t she/isn’t he/isn’t she)

iv. A movie is going to be watched by us tonight. (change to Active Voice)

v. At this school, students need to attend 8 periods everyday before you go home.(find
the incorrect pronoun and write it correctly)

Question IV [2]
Make a sentence of your own using
i. an example of intensive pronoun.

ii. an example of continuous future tense.

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 SECTION C: READING AND LITERATURE
Short Story
(11 Marks)

Direction: Read the instructions carefully and answer the questions based on the story
‘The Spider Web’ by Clifford B. Hicks.

Question I
Direction: For each question, there are FOUR responses: A, B, C and D. Choose the
corresponding alphabet of your response and CIRCLE it neatly. No scores will be
awarded if you circle more than one.

i. The setting of the story is [1]

A outside the principal’s office.
B inside the principal’s office.
C outside the classroom.
D inside the classroom.

“Then we expected Miss Gilliam to walk into the room. We’d holler, “April Fool!” and she’d
see the joke.
ii. The meaning of the underlined word in the above extract is [1]
A shout.
B whisper.
C stammer.
D mummer.

iii. Upon seeing the entire class spiderwebbed, Miss Gillam laughed and left the class [1]
because she wanted to
A punish them.
B play prank on them.
C inform the principal.
D inform their parents.

Question II
Direction: Read the questions carefully and write your answers in the spaces provided
(ALL THREE questions are compulsory).

Really, you’ve got to begin thinking about April Fools’ Day a couple of weeks
ahead...”
i. What makes the speaker say the above line? [2]
ii. Why did Milly Morrison make a call to Miss Gillam on the April Fools’ Day? [1]

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iii. Write TWO reasons why you think the title of the story ‘The Spider Web’ is [1]
suitable?

Question III
Direction: From the THREE questions given below, choose TWO (a is compulsory) and
write your answers in the spaces provided.

i. In the table given below, write down TWO differences between the celebrations of [2]
April Fools’ Day in North America and Teachers’ Day in Bhutan.

April Fools’ Day in North Teachers’ Day in Bhutan

America
i.
ii.

“In some ways, April Fools’ Day is a lot more fun…”

ii. How far do you agree with the statement? Explain in FIVE sentences. [2]

OR
iii. If you were the speaker, would you also play the same prank on Miss Gillam? Give [2]
TWO reasons.

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 ESSAY
(11 Marks)
Direction: Read the essay given below carefully and answer the questions that
follow.

The capital city of Japan, Tokyo, is like a concrete jungle: all around are high
buildings, the streets are paved, and there is not even a patch of bare earth to be seen.
The traffic is noisy; everyone seems to be in a hurry- rushing to catch a train,
hurriedly eating in a fast-food restaurant, with no time to sit and chat over a meal. It
is very different from Thimphu, where we have time to relax and plenty of space
around us- less traffic, open space to play archery, clear view of the valley with
beautiful mountains around etc.

Every room in a standard hotel in Tokyo has a television set. Guests can watch and
listen to news from all over the world and keep updated with the latest events. In one
way it is good to listen to news and be aware of what is happening in the world
around us, but at the same time it disturbs one’s peace of mind: most of the news are
of wars and conflicts.

People in Tokyo are very conscious of time. If you want to see someone, you must
make an appointment, and you must arrive at the exact time agreed: for them it is
insulting to keep a person waiting. Even to visit your parents, you must call in
advance and make an appointment. In this way their life is different from Bhutan.
We can call and visit our friends whenever we like and welcome people whenever
they visit us. But when you visit a Japanese home, and escape from the rush and
bustle of the streets and public places, you find that people are just the same as us:
friendly, relaxed and hospitable.

In many ways, life is better here in Bhutan. We are more relaxed, and we do not
suffer from mental tensions of life in a big, crowded, and noisy city. But there is one
thing we must learn from Japanese. They have a strong sense of duty and
commitment to their work. Here in Bhutan, I feel many people are after personal gain
than being responsible. Our government provides free education to children and

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 every Bhutanese is well taken care of. For this we should serve our country with
dedication and commitment and must focus on what we can give than what we can
take. Even people doing the simplest jobs in a Japan seem to carry out their duty with
a sense of responsibility.

Adapted from: www.essays.children.bt

Question I
Direction: For each question, there are FOUR responses: A, B, C and D. Choose the
corresponding alphabet of your response and CIRCLE it neatly. No scores will be
awarded if you circle more than one.

i. The writer concludes the essay by saying that [1]

A Bhutanese lack sense of responsibility
B Bhutanese suffer from mental illness
C Education in Japan is free
D Japanese are too lazy

ii. In which paragraph does the writer say that Japanese are very mindful of time? [1]
A 1
B 2
C 3
D 4

iii. The writer finds Tokyo very different from Bhutan because [1]
A there is less traffic
B there are few buildings
C people have no time to relax
D there are less people moving aound

Question II
Direction: Read the questions carefully and write your answers in the spaces provided
(ALL THREE questions are compulsory).

“The capital city of Japan, Tokyo, is like a concrete jungle.”

i. Identify the figure of speech used in the line given above. [1]

ii. Summarize the second paragraph in your words. [2]

iii. What type of essay is the given text? [1]

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 Question III
Direction: From the THREE questions given below, choose TWO (a is compulsory) and
write your answers in the spaces provided.

i. What lessons did you learn from the essay. Mention any TWO. [2]

ii. Would you prefer to go on a vacation/holiday to Tokyo? Give TWO reasons. [2]

OR

iii. Did you enjoy reading the essay? Give TWO reasons to support your answer. [2]

Poetry
(8 Marks)
Direction: Read the poem given below carefully and answer the questions that
follow.

Colors
Christina Rossetti

What is pink? A rose is pink

By the spring's side.
What is red? A poppy's red
In its barley bed.

What is blue? The sky is blue

Where the clouds float through.
What is white? A swan is white
Sailing in the light.

What is yellow? Pears are yellow,

Rich and ripe and mellow.
What is green? The grass is green,
With small flowers between.

What is violet? Clouds are violet

In the summer twilight.

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 What is orange? Why, an orange,
Just an orange!

Source: www.gradesaver.com/christina-rossetti-poems/study-guide

Question I
Direction: For each question, there are FOUR responses: A, B, C and D. Choose the
corresponding alphabet of your response and CIRCLE it neatly. No scores will be
awarded if you circle more than one.

i. The word ‘sailing’ in the 2nd stanza of the poem means [1]
A moving.
B walking.
C running.
D jumping.

ii. The poem, ‘Colors’ is mainly about the different _______ that we see in the [1]
nature.
A flowers
B colors
C fruits
D birds

Question II
Direction: Read the questions carefully and write your answers in the spaces provided
(both questions are compulsory).

i. Explain the stanza given below in your own words. [2]

“What is blue? The sky is blue
Where the clouds float through…”

ii. With reference to the poem, which fruit has the name of the color? [1]

Question III
Direction: Choose any ONE from the TWO questions given below and write your
answers in the spaces provided.
i. The poet presents a beautiful picture of the world using various colors making it [3]
more attractive. Would you prefer a world with colors or without any color? Write
in THREE sentences.
OR [3]
ii. What is your favourite colour? Explain why you like that color in THREE
sentences.

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Blueprint for English – Classes IV to VI

Level of Thinking/Content/Skill Remembering Understanding Applying Analysing Evaluating Creating Total

Section A Essay writing
1. Essay Writing (realistic fiction –
10
narrative writing)
-10M
2. Letter Writing Letter writing (8M) 8
Section B:
QI. iii (1M) QI. ii (1 M) QI. i (1 M) 3
Grammar
1. MCQ
2. Cloze text QIII. i, ii, iii, iv,
QII. i (1M) and QIV. i and ii
3. Rewriting/editing and v (5M) 9
ii (1M) (2M)
4. True/False
5. Re-arranging of words
QI. i (1M) QI. ii (1M) QI. iii (1M) 3
Section C:
1. Short Story
3 MCQ – 3 (1 x 3) QII. ii (1M) QII. i (2M) QII. iii (1M) 4
2/3 SAQ – (Total 4M)
3 ERQ – (Total 4 M): 2 items QIII. ii (2M)
compulsory QIII. i (2M) Or 4
QIII. iii (2M)
2. Essay QI. iii (1M) QI. i (1M) QI. ii (1M) 3
3 MCQ – 3 (1 x 3)
QII. ii (2M) QII. i and iii (2M) 4
2/3 SAQ – (Total 4 M)
QIII. ii (2M)
3 ERQ – (Total 4 M)
QIII. i (2M) Or 4
2 items compulsory
QIII. iii (2M)
3. Poetry QI. i (1M) QI. ii (1M)
2
2 MCQ – 2 (1 x 2 = 2)
QII. ii (1M) QII. i (2M) 3
2/3 SAQ – (Total 3 M)
QIII. i (3M)
1 ERQ – (Total 3 M)
Or 3
1 item compulsory
QIII. ii (3M)
Total 4 10 16 11 7 12 60
30 30
MATHEMATICS
Part II: Sample Paper
SECTION A [30 MARKS]
ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS
Question 1

Direction: For each question, there are FOUR responses: A, B, C and D. Choose the
corresponding alphabet of your response and CIRCLE it neatly. NO score will be awarded if you
circle more than one.

6 4 3 2
i. Tashi spent h in reading, h in cooking, 8 h in playing and 8 h in washing. In which activity
8 8

did she spend more time?

A Cooking
B Playing
C Reading
D Washing

ii. The recipe for the soup in Hotel River Valley is as shown below.

Ingredients Quantity

Tomato

Carrot

Onion

Water

The ratio of tomatoes to total ingredients is

A 11 : 5
B 5 : 11
C 6:5
D 5:6
iii. To mark the social forestry day on 2nd June every year, Dorji’s school planted the trees as shown
below.

0 7 8 8 9 9
1
2 1 1 2 3 3 6
3 0 0 5 8

How many trees were planted by the school?

A 136
B 269
C 310
D 311

1
iv. Which of the following given below represents the number 2 ?
3
a. a

b.

c.

d.
v. Wangmo has a 24000 ml of water. If she pours it in a container, which of the following container
could hold the water?

vi. The table below shows the speed of four different cars.

Car 1 Car 2 Car 3 Car 4

51.4 km in 2 hours 60 km in 3 hours 72.5 km in 5 18.6 km in 1
hours hour

The distance from Trashigang to Samdrup Jongkhar is about 180 km. Which of the above cars
would help Karma to reach Samdrup Jongkhar in about 7 hours?

A Car 4
B Car 3
C Car 2
D Car 1
vii. Which of the following shape will look same after a quarter turn?

A Shape A
B Shape B
C Shape C
D Shape D

viii. This is a stamp. It makes the shape of the key.

Which one of these shapes can the stamp make?

A Key A
B Key B
C Key C
D Key D
 ix. Pema tried to write the triangular number as shown below. However, he was stuck and could
not proceed further. What could be the next number?

1 3 6 10 15 21 28 ?

A 34
B 35
C 36
D 37

x. The Penden Cement Plant in Samtse Dzongkhag produces about 150 tonnes of cement per day. If
the cement is packed into 50 kg bags, how many bags would that be?
A 3 bags
B 30 bags
C 300 bags
D 3000 bags

xi.The angle marked x in the figure is

A 700
B 800
C 900
D 1000

xii. Mr Thinley’s monthly salary is Nu 10,500. His annual income in the expanded form is

A 10 thousand + 5 hundred.
B 126 thousand + 5 hundred.
C 1 hundred thousand + 26 ten thousand + 6 thousand.
D 1 hundred thousand + 2 ten thousand + 6 one thousand.

xiii. Four friends did a temporary job of picking oranges during the last winter vacation. The
table below shows oranges collected in one day.

Name Oranges collected (kg)

Karma 20
Kinley 15
Wangmo 10
Sushma 15
 1
Who collected the oranges with the probability of ?
3
A Karma
B Kinley
C Sushma
D Wangmo

xiv. The shaded portion given below can be written as

10
A
6
9
B
6
8
C
6
7
D
6

xv. Use the figure to answer the question given below

Fig 1

Fig 1 has an area of 60 cm2. What is the estimated area of figure 2?

A 20 cm2
B 25 cm2
C 30 cm2
D 35 cm2
 Section B (30 marks)
Answer all the questions.
Question 2
a) Tshering’s father is a painter. His father painted a wall with dimensions as shown in the
diagram below. [2]

4m
5m
If a 5 m2 wall requires 2 cans of paint, how many cans should he buy to paint the whole wall?

b) Kado is 10 years more than double his son’s age.

i. Create a linear equation to show the above statement. [2]
ii. What will be Kado’s age if his son is 10 years old? [1]

Question 3

a) Look at the diagram given below that shows the patterns of square numbers.

Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 4

Continue the pattern and draw a diagram to show the number of dots in figure 5 and figure 6. [2]

1
b) Dorji said that the probability of spinning B on a spinner given in the figure below is 5. Do
you agree with him? Explain your thinking. [3]

D
A E

C B
Question 4
a) Draw any shape on the grid and perform any two transformations. [3]

b) Draw a 600 angle and bisect the angle. [2]

Question 5
a) Tashi, Wangmo and Chencho went to pick apples using the same size basket on Sunday.
Their collection of apples was shown as given below. [2]

Tashi Wangmo Chencho

Who do you think collected more apples? Show your work.

b) The table below shows the profit made by three industries in the year 2021. [3]

Industries Profit (in million)

Bhutan Agro Industries Nu. 5425.78
Army welfare Project Nu. 4532.32
Paro 8 Nu. 245.45
Total Profit

Write the total profit made by three industries in expanded form.

Question 6
a) A group of villagers plan to make a vegetable garden using the shape from the coordinates
A (2, 2), B (-1, 2), C (-3,-2), and D (3, -2). What will be the shape of the garden? [2]

b) Calculate the length of Seldon’s rectangular table top, having a breadth of 5 m and an area
of 60 m2 as shown below. [3]

Question 7
a) What fraction is shown by the diagram below? Write the fraction. (und) [2]

b) Sangay made a rectangular shaped tank for hand washing for his class, a tank 8 m long, 2
m broad and 5 m high. How much water will it hold? [3]
 Sample Test Blueprint and Question Paper for class VI at key stage II
Class VI
Part I: Test Blueprint
Section A - MCQ (30 marks)

Strands Remembering Understanding Applying Analyzing Evaluating Creating Weightage

Q1(i)[2]
Numbers and Q1(iv)[2]
Q1(ii)[2] Q1(vi)[2] 12
Operations Q1(xiv)[2] Q1(xii)[2]

Patterns and Q1(ix)[2]

Algebra
2

Q1(v)[2] Q1(x)[2]
Measurement 6
Q1(xv)[2]
Q1(vii)[2]
Q1(viii)[2]
Geometry Q1(xi)[2] 6

Data
Management Q1(iii)[2]
4
and Q1(xiii)[2]
Probability
Total 4 10 8 6 2 0 30

Section B (30 Marks)

Strands Remembering Understanding Applying Analyzing Evaluating Creating Weightage

Numbers and Q5(a)[2]

Q7(a)[2] Q2(a)[2]
Operations Q5(b)[3] 9

Patterns and
Q2b(ii)[1] Q3(a)[2] Q2b(i)[2]
Algebra 5

Q6(b)[3]
Measurement
Q7(b)[3] 6
5
Geometry Q4(b)[2] Q4(a)[3]

Data
Management
Q6(a)[2] Q3(b)[3]
and 5
Probability

Total 2 13 5 5 5 30
SCIENCE
 COMPETENCY BASED ASSESSMENT TEST

SUBJECT: SCIENCE TOTAL MARKS: 50

CLASS: VI TIME: 1 HR

Name: _________________________________________ Roll No. ______________

School: ___________________________________ Section: ______________

Dzongkhag: ______________________________ Gender: ______________

READ THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY:

1. In this booklet you will find NINE questions. You must answer ALL the questions.
2. Answers to all the questions must be written neatly in the spaces provided.
3. Do not write during the first fifteen minutes. This time is to be spent on reading the questions.
4. You will have ONE hour to answer all the questions.
5. You will NOT be allowed to leave the examination room until the completion of the
stipulated time.
(First FIFTEEN minutes could be used by the teachers on duty to explain the instructions)

For Teacher’s Use Only

Q5 Q6
Question Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
a.i a.ii b.i b.ii a.i a.ii b.i b.ii

Mark 5 5 5 5 1 2 2 1 2 2 1 1

Mark scored

Initial

Total Score

Q7 Q8 Q9
Question
a.i a.ii b.i b.ii a b c a b.i b.ii

Mark 1 2 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2

Mark scored

Initial

Total Score

Final Score: ______________________

Initial of the Tabulator: ________________________

 Section A (20 Marks)
Question 1 [5]

Direction: For each question, there are four alternatives: A, B, C and D. Choose the
correct alternative and circle it. Do not circle more than ONE alternative. If there are
more than one choice circled, NO score will be awarded.
i. There are various characteristics of mammal, ranging from having hair to feeding
their young ones with milk. In particular, giving birth to young ones has the
following advantage.
A It reduces the chance of survival of the young ones.
B It prevents complete development of the young ones.
C It requires keeping the young ones safe from predators.
D It provides better protection to the developing embryo.

ii. Pema planted tomatoes in his garden and he observed yellowing of area between the
leaf veins, reddish brown tints on some leaves and early leaf fall. What deficiency
causes such symptoms in plants?
A zinc
B nitrogen
C magnesium
D phosphorus

iii. Na2CO3 is an inorganic substance composed of different elements. What are the
correct symbols and formulas of the elements present in it?
A Symbols- Na2, C, O and Formulas- Na, C, O2

B Symbols- Na, C, O and Formulas- Na₂, C, O2

C Symbols- Na, C, O and Formulas- Na, C, O2

D Symbols- Na, C, O2 and Formulas- Na, C, O2

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iv. The gravity of the Moon is comparatively lesser than the Earth. Therefore, any object
released on the Moon keeps floating. Considering this phenomena, which one of the
following would be suitable for the purpose of writing on the Moon?
A fountain pen
B colour pencil
C graphite pencil
D pressurized ink pen

v. The partial or total blocking of one object in space by another is called an eclipse.
Identify the correct alignment of Sun, Moon and Earth that occurs during solar and
lunar eclipse from the following.
I. Earth, Sun and Moon
II. Sun, Earth and Moon
III. Sun, Moon and Earth

A I and II
B III and I
C III and II
D II and III

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Question 2 [5]

Direction: Fill in the blanks with appropriate word(s).

i. Snake is a reptile whereas a toad is a __________________.

ii. Plants can prepare their own food using carbon dioxide and
__________________ in the presence of sunlight and chlorophyll.

iii. Salt can be obtained from the salt solution by the process of evaporation or
__________________.

iv. A yarn ball rolling down the stairs has the most __________________ energy
when it is at the top of the stairs.

v. The __________________ region of the Earth receives the most direct and
concentrated amount of sunlight.

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Question 3 [5]

Direction: Match each item in column I against the most appropriate item in
column II. Write only the alphabet against the number in the space provided.
Column I Column II
i Unhealthy diet a softening of water
ii Adaptation of rhododendrons in high altitude b torrid zone
iii Prevent lime scale in boilers c lifestyle disease
iv Twinkling of stars at night d reflection of light
v Two seasons in Mexico e cold tolerance
f refraction of light

ii

iii

iv

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 Question 4 [5]

Direction: Write TRUE or FALSE against each statement in the space provided.

i. Generally, elderly people require more carbohydrates, proteins and fats than the
young ones. (___________________)

ii. The number of consumers in a food web is not fixed. (___________________)

iii. If a solution X turns blue litmus to red and the solution Y turns red litmus to blue,
the solution X is acidic and solution Y is basic. (___________________)

iv. There is always some loss of energy in the conversion of energy from one form to
another, so the total energy is not conserved. (___________________)

v. The pitch of sound does not depend on the frequency. (___________________)

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 Section B (40 Marks)

Direction: Answer the following questions in the space provided. The marks for each
question are given in the brackets [ ].

Question 5 [6 Marks]

a. i. A student after learning about the characteristics of acid and base conducted an [1]
experiment. Upon placing the tarnished and dark copper coins in the vinegar for
few hours, he noticed that the coins became clean and shiny.

What characteristic of acid has made it possible?

ii. Study the visual representation of the chemical combination of atoms. [2]

+ +

If the two smaller circles represent hydrogen atoms and the bigger circle represent
oxygen atom, what is the name and the chemical formula of the molecule formed?

b. i. Explosion of fireworks involves certain chemical reactions. State TWO reasons [2]
why it is considered as a chemical change?

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 ii. The quality of water is affected by the nature and the amount of chemical [1]
compounds dissolved in it. Mention ONE way of removing the hardness of water
in the mineral water manufacturing company.

Question 6 [6 Marks]

a. Study the human blood circulatory system given below and answer the questions
that follow.

i. Compare human blood circulatory system to that of a tree and explain how [2]
water, food and gases are transported in the tree.

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 ii. What would happen if the blood circulation stops for a few seconds? [2]

b. Bees move from flower to flower collecting nectar. Both plants and bees are
benefited by this process.

i. Mention the benefit of the above process in the lives of plants. [1]

ii. How is pollination different from fertilization? [1]

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 Question 7 [6 Marks]

a. i. Spending too many hours staring at a phone screen and computer screen can [1]
cause eye strain due to the glare from the screen. What property of light causes
such glare?

ii. Design a simple sound box using household items to amplify the volume of your [2]
smartphone. Illustrate with a diagram.

b. i. The closer to the pole, the longer the polar night. Explain with ONE point. [1]

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 ii. On 26th May 2021, ‘Blood Moon’ was observed in Brazil. Such an eclipsed [2]
Moon acquires its name from its reddish colour.

What causes such colour of the Moon? Explain the phenomena.

Question 8 [6 Marks]

a. In an experiment, a potted plant was placed near the window while the other was [2]
placed few meters away from the window. Both the plants were watered equally
for a month and their growth was observed.

Which plant would grow healthier and taller? Support with a reason.

b. Karma rolls a ball with the same amount of force on different floor surfaces and he [2]
finds that the ball rolls farther on the smooth floor compared to the uneven floor.
Explain why a ball rolling on the uneven floor stops at a shorter distance
compared to the smooth floor.

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 c. Suppose you are participating in a game design contest. If you are asked to design [2]
a cricket game using the electric circuit knowledge so that the game can be played
even in the dark, what changes will you make? Illustrate your design in the form of
a diagram.

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 Question 9 [6 Marks]

a. Deki was feeling thirsty but there was only a bucket of water at home which was [2]
muddy and unfit for drinking. While checking the water in the bucket she
accidentally spilled some cooking oil in the water. If you are Deki, how would you
make this water fit for drinking using the available materials at home, provided
you do not have readymade filters at home? Write down the materials required and
illustrate your design in the form of a diagram to make the water fit for drinking.

b. i. A boy bought an aquarium with variety of fishes and decorative accessories. [2]
Now he wants to place few hydrilla and pistia plants in it. Explain with TWO
points based on the classification of plants why he chose those plants.

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 ii. Poaching of wild animals for skin, flesh and other parts have become a big [2]
concern around the globe.

If such killing of animals continues, what would happen to the health of the
ecosystem? Justify with the help of the food web given below where the tiger is the
apex of the food web.

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 Test Blueprint for Sample Question Paper

CBAT VI Science

Core ideas Section Weighting Remember Understand Apply Analyse Evaluate Create

Classification A 2 Q1.i(1) Q2.i(1)

and Variation
B 0

Human and A 2 Q3.i(1) Q4.i(1)

Animal
B 4 Q6a.i(2) Q6a.ii(2)

Green Plants A 2 Q1.ii(1) Q2.ii(1)

B 4 Q6b.i(1) Q6b.ii(1) Q8a.(2)

Living A 2 Q3.ii(1) Q4.ii(1)

Things and
their B 4 Q9b.i(2) Q9b.ii(2)
Environment

Grouping A 2 Q1.iii(1)
and Q4.iii(1)
Classifying
Materials B 3 Q5a.i(1) Q5a.ii(2)

Materials and A 1 Q3.iii(1)

Change
B 3 Q5b.ii(1) Q5b.i(2)

Separating A 1 Q2.iii(1)
Mixtures
B 2 Q9a.(2)

Forces and A 1 Q1.iv(1)

Motion
B 2 Q8.b(2)

Energy A 2 Q4.iv(1) Q2.iv(1)

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 B 0

Electricity A 0
and
Magnetism B 2 Q8c.(2)

Light and A 2 Q3.iv(1) Q4.v(1)

Sound
B 3 Q7a.i(1) Q7a.ii(2)

The Earth A 3 Q3.v(1) Q1.v(1)

and Beyond Q2.v(1)

B 3 Q7b.i(1)
Q7b.ii(2)

Total A+B 50 6 7 13 12 6 6

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SOCIAL STUDIES
Question 1. [20 Marks]

Direction: For each question, there are four alternatives: A, B, C and D. Choose the correct
alternative and circle it. Do not circle more than ONE alternative. If there are more than one
choice circled, NO score will be awarded. Each question carries 1 mark.

i. Which kind of transportation is not found in Bhutan?

A Airways
B Railways
C Roadways
D Waterways

ii. Different places on the earth receive varying amount of sun light and sun rays. This is
caused by the
A size of the Earth.
B shape of the Earth.
C surface of the Earth.
D amount of water on the Earth.

iii. If there weren’t leap years, then the month February would not have
A 28 days
B 29 days
C 30 days
D 31 days

iv. The waste production in the country has increased over the years. This is due to
A increase in medical facilities.
B increase in import items.
C increase in population.
D increase in the number of houses.

v. There are 305 people in a village. 10 children were born and 6 people died over the
last two years. The increase in population is
A 2
B 3
C 4
D 5

vi. Which of the following is NOT true about the performance of rituals in our life?
 A Protects us from evil
B Protects us from bad luck
C Brings good luck in the family
D Brings friends closer to each other

vii. Choose the most effective activity that prepares children for adulthood.
A Tha Damtsi
B Education
C Being grateful
D Respecting elders

viii. Bhutan has warm summer and cold winter. This is due to
A Rotation
B Leap year
C Revolution
D Autumnal Equinox

ix. What would be the season in Nepal when Bhutan has summer season?
A Spring
B Summer
C Autumn
D Winter

x. Different regions in Bhutan celebrate different festivals. Which festival do people of

Haa celebrate?
A Lomba
B Lhaboe
C Dasain
D Chunipa Losar

xi. Carrying of “toray” and “phob” is NOT very common now-a-days. This indicates
change in
A culture.
B attitudes.
C values.
D festivals.

xii. Ap Dondula bought things to make his life comfortable. Choose the most appropriate
items he would buy
A car, washing machine and rice cooker.
B rice, house and washing machine.
 C car, house and kira.
D sugar, rice and shirt.

xiii. Select the most appropriate reason for the growth of population
A More birth and less death
B Men and women marry at later age
C Improvement in the medical facilities
D Healthy mothers give birth to more children

xiv. The good leaders are

A strong and caring.
B wise and strong.
C wise and handsome.
D friendly and educated.

xv. A person grows crops, looks after cattle and collects wild fruits from the forest.
Identify the activity that he carries out

A Primary activity
B. Secondary activity
C Service industry
D Tertiary activity

xvi. The Earth has Four Spheres: Lithosphere, Hydrosphere, Atmosphere and Biosphere.
Which sphere covers the maximum Earth surface?

A Lithosphere
B Atmosphere
C Hydrosphere
C Biosphere

xvii. Your mother made a pencil-case using a plastic bottle for you to keep your pencils,
pens and crayons. Which principle of 4Rs did she use?

A Reduce
B Recycle
C Reuse
D Refuse
 xviii. Everyone wants to live in the community where there is peace and happiness. Which
factor affects the peaceful living in your community?

A being helpful.
B being ungrateful.
C loving and caring.
D being respectful.

xix. Cultural heritage ensures our nation’s sovereignty. Which of the following place is the
least significant to promote our culture?

A Temples
B Dzongs
C Lhakhangs
D Homes

xx. A group of students went for hiking on vacation. On the way, they saw snow leopard,
musk deer and takins. In which physical zones did they come across with these
wildlife?

A The Torrid Zone

B The Inner Himalayas
C The Greater Himalayas
D The Southern Foothills

Question 2. [ 5 Marks]
Direction: Fill in the blanks with appropriate word(s). Write the answers in the space provided
below:

i. The movement of people from one place to another in search of good opportunities is
___________.

ii. Physical artefacts such as buildings, monuments, religious instruments, nyes and
relics are some examples of ___________culture.

iii. An object or situation, or behavior that has the potential to cause injury, damage
properties, or the environment is called a ___________.

iv. The money paid to workers on daily basis is a ____________.

v. Your father collecting stones for house construction is ___________ activity.

Question 3. [5 Marks]

Direction: Match each item in column I against the most appropriate item in column II. Write
only the alphabet against the number in the space provided below:

Column I Column II

i Earth’s movement a. Government

ii December 22nd b. Lithosphere

iii 29% of the Earth c. Rotation

iv Right way of living d. Nyinlog

v Looks after the welfare e. Tha Damtsi

Question 4. [ 5 Marks]

Direction: Write TRUE or FALSE against each statement in the space provided.

i. Electricity is a clean energy and does not pollute the environment (………………)
ii. An increase in number of people living in cities and town areas is known as
urbanization (……………)
iii. The Temperate zone lies between Tropic of Cancer and Equator. (……………)
iv. Transportation and communication have improved the life of the people. (…………)
v. There are 1800 latitudes and 3600longitudes. (……………)

Direction: Answer the following questions as directed. The marks for each question are given in
the brackets [ ].
Question 5 [5 Marks]
a. Study the diagram and answer the question given below.
Explain TWO reasons why North Pole and Equator have different climate. [2]

b. “Reuse means to use things again in different ways for different purposes”. Design a
poster to create awareness on the above statement in your community. [3]
Question 6 [10 Marks]

a. List TWO ways to reduce road accidents in the country. [1]

b. Tell TWO roles and responsibilities that you carry out at home as a child. [1]
c. Suggest TWO ways to safeguard us from lighting. [2]
d. Study the TWO architectures of Bhutan given below and answer the question.

Figure A Figure B

If you were to build a house, which one of the above would you choose?
Give TWO reasons of your choice. [2]

e. Write TWO disadvantages of urbanization. [2]

f. Transportation and communication have improved over the past. Suggest TWO ways for
further improvement. [2]
 Test Blue Print ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐Social Studies VI

Skills Remembering Understanding Applying Analysing Evaluating Creating Total Marks

Topics
Chapter 1‐The Earth Q1. XVI (1) Q1. iii (1) Q1. ii (1) Q5. a (2) 6 7
(The Solar System, the Earth, Q3. I (1) Q3. II (1)
the spheres of the Earth,
motions of the Earth)

Chapter 2 ‐ Our Country Q4. V (1) Q1. VIII (1) Q1. IX (1) Q1. XX (1) 5 5
(Climate, factors affecting Q4. Iii (1)
climate, climatic zones, people
and the climate)
Chapter 3 – Population Q1. IV (1) Q1. V (1) Q1. XVII (1) Q5. b (3) 6 8
(Population, population Q1. XIII (1) Q2. I (1)
change, population
distribution, impacts of
population on the
environment)
Chapter 4 – Culture and Q1. XIX (1) Q1. X (1) Q1. VI (1) 6 6
Tradition Q2, ii (1) Q1. VII (1)
(Culture and tradition, Q1. XI (1)
preservation and promotion of
culture and tradition, sacred
places of Bhutan)
Chapter 5‐ Government Q3. V (1) Q1. XIV (1) 2 2
(Government, branches of
government, civil servants,
democracy and its principles)

Chapter 6 – People and the Q3. Iii (1) Q1. XVIII 4 4

Society Q6. B. (1) (1)
Q3. Iv (1)
(Corruption, domestic
violence, suicide, cyber
bullying, child trafficking,
abortion)
Chapter 7 – People and the Q4. I (1) Q6. D (2) 4 6
Environment Q4. Ii (1) Q6. E (2)
(Hydro‐power and
urbanization, climate change
due to urbanization)
Chapter 8 – Hazard and Q2. iii (1) Q6.a (1) Q6.c (2) 3 4
Disaster
(Lighting, Glacial Lake
Outburst flood, safety
measures)
Chapter 9 –Transport and Q1. I (1) Q4, iv (1) Q6. F (2) 3 4
Communication
(Transportation and
communication and their
types, transport and
communication in the past
and present)
Chapter 10 – Income Q2. Iv (1) Q1. XII (1) 4 4
(Sources of income, economics Q1. XV (1)
and non‐economics activities, Q2. V (1)
trade)
Total Questions 43 50