Navigate Issue #2 - EJC GP 2018 2E

NAVIGATE Issue #2     Eunoia Junior College   English Department   General Paper   2018 JC1

Navigate Issue #2   Contents     Message from the JC1 GP Team 2 Application Question 3 Eunoia Junior College JC1 Mid-Year Examinations 2018: 3 Response 1 3 Response 2 5 Response 3 6 Response 4 8 Response 5 10 Response 6 12 Essays and Paragraphs 14 Eunoia Junior College JC1 Mid-Year Examination 2018: 14 1 ‘Education has not caught up with the needs of the modern world.’ To what 15 ​ extent is this true? 2 Can the media ever be trusted to report the truth? 18 2 Can the media ever be trusted to report the truth? 20 2 Can the media ever be trusted to report the truth? 21 2 Can the media ever be trusted to report the truth? 22 3 Does traditional marriage still hold any relevance in modern society? 23 3 Does traditional marriage still hold any relevance in modern society? 25 4 ‘Youth is wasted on the young.’ Do you agree? 26 4 ‘Youth is wasted on the young.’ Do you agree? 28 6 ‘Consensus is becoming a rarity in today’s world.’ Is this a fair assessment? 29 8 How far is elitism inevitable in your society? 32 9 Consider the view that technology is destroying the quality of written language. 35 10 ‘Rehabilitation, not deterrence, should be the goal of the justice system.’ Discuss. 37 10 ‘Rehabilitation, not deterrence, should be the goal of the justice system.’ Discuss. 39 12 ‘The solution to all environmental problems ultimately lies with the government.’ 42 ​ How far do you agree with this? Double Passage Application Question 44 Eunoia Junior College JC1 Timed Practice #2 (GCE A Level 2008 Paper 2): 44 Response 1 44 Response 2 45 Response 3 47 Response 4 49 Response 5 51 Eunoia English Department 1

Navigate Issue #2   Message from the JC1 GP Team   Dear Eunoians, “Write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what’s burning inside you, and edit to let the fire show through the smoke.” - Arthur Plotnik Writing depends deeply on what you have to say. When you seek to communicate to an audience what you know and what you are about, you write with purpose. When you first begin writing - and especially writing about the abstract, complex and tangled ideas such as those that GP often demands of you - you may find yourself having difficulty conveying your message with clarity. You may end up inadvertently with imperfect writing that obscures instead of revealing, but this is to be expected, for how can one fit the messiness of a multidimensional world onto a page and have it make sense? This is where learning to edit comes in, as a process of refinement that begins, mentally, even before pen touches paper. Editing is a reflective process; like in your CA3, it takes discipline to scrutinise your own thinking and writing processes to determine how best to convey what you have to say exactly. This second issue of Navigate is a collecti