Are your students well prepared to sit in PEC Exams?

According to the new policy of Punjab Education Foundation,the students of class 5,8,9 and 10 will not appear in regular QAT. Instead they will appear in PEC and Board exams. PEF will consider the results of PEC and Boards.Is this policy favorable for PEF Partner schools or not? The time will give the answer to this question. Now when the PEC exams are drawing near,the question arises:Are the students of PEF partner schools well prepared to sit in the PEC Exams?
       Someone may think," what is this question for? What do you want to say? Our teachers have worked pretty hard through out the year and we hope to get good results." You will get the logic behind this question if you put the following questions to your teachers involved in PEC classes(5th&8th):

1. What is the paper pattern according to the latest PEC Model Paper?
2. How many sections are there in the PEC Model Paper?
3. What type of questions will be constructed in the paper?
4. How many MCQ's are there in the Objective part?
5. Are these MCQ's from the textbook lessons or exercises? If not then where these questions have been constructed from?
6. What type of questions have been constructed in subjective part of the paper?
7. Five MCQ's in the Model paper of 5th class English are based on an unseen stanza.Has this practice been carried out in your school?
8. The first question of subjective part in  Model paper of English (5th) is about describing a picture in sentences.Is this practice carried out in your classes?
9. When you study the objective part of English and Urdu Model papers,it seems all the questions are out of syllabus.They are not from textbook exercises.Where these questions have been constructed from?
10. Are your teachers familiar to Rubrics published by PUNJAB EXAMINATION COMMISSION?

If you get the answers to these questions satisfactorily,you need not worry,your students will carry the day in the PEC exams. If you don't get the answers,it is an alarming situation which requires to pay attention as the exams are not very far.

NOTE:In the next post,I will try to describe the complete pattern of PEC Model Papers.Please subscribe the page and comment if you find the post helpful.