Sample Essay: Section A - Spirit of the Keris (Short Stories)

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STPM 2012/13 (Modular) SHORT STORIES: Ratnamuni by K.S.Maniam

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Paper 1 (Modular) Study the poems

NOTE: The written examination for Paper 1 will be held in the first week of November 2012 Click on the title of the poem to read.

SONNET 75 by Edmund Spenser
Read an analysis of Spenser's poem here
SONNET 73 by William Shakespeare
A POISON TREE by William Blake
The SOLITARY REAPER by William Wordsworth
SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY by Lord Byron, George Gordon
LOVE'S PHILOSOPHY by Percy Bysshe Shelley
ODE TO AUTUMN by John Keats
MY LAST DUCHESS by Robert Browning
A BIRD CAME DOWN by Emily Dickinson
I LOOK INTO MY GLASS by Thomas Hardy
Read and listen to Thomas Hardy's poem AT TEA
WHEN YOU ARE OLD by W.B. Yeats
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STPM 2012/2013: New Syllabus & Specifications

Students who start Lower Six in 2012 will be studying the new syllabus under the new modular system.
For full details, please go to http://www.mpm.edu.my/web/guest/sukatan-pelajaran-stpm-modular


NOTE:

UPPER SIX STUDENTS TAKING THE STPM EXAM IN 2012 ARE NOT AFFECTED. THEY WILL BE THE LAST BATCH OF STUDENTS STUDYING THE OLD SYLLABUS.

ONLY FOR STPM 2012 CANDIDATES IN UPPER SIX

STPM - LITERATURE IN ENGLISH SYLLABUS

Content
Paper 1: Shakespeare and Other British Writers
(i) Shakespeare, Hamlet (Arden)
(ii) Shakespeare, As You Like It (Arden)
(iii) John Keats, Selected Poems and Letters of Keats (Heinemann)
(iv) Thomas Hardy, Selected Shorter Poems of Thomas Hardy (Macmillan)
(v) Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre (Wordsworth Classics)
(vi) Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (Penguin Classics)

Paper 2: New Literatures in English
(i) “Spirit of the Keris”: A Selection of Malaysian Short Stories and Poems (Maya Press Sdn. Bhd.)
(ii) Nissim Ezekiel, Collected Poems 1952-1988 (Oxford Indian Paperback)
(iii) Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (Penguin Books)
(iv) Buchi Emecheta, Kehinde (Heinemann)



Examination Format

Consists of two papers:
Paper 1: Shakespeare and Other British Writers (3 hours)
There are four sections:
Section A: Critical Appreciation.
Section B: Shakespeare’s Plays.
Section C: Poetry.
Section D: Novels and short stories.

Paper 2: New Literatures in English (3 hours)
There are three sections
Section A: Critical Appreciation.
Section B: Malaysia.
Section C: Indian Sub-Continent, West Indies and Africa.



The SYLLABUS SPECIFICATIONS are available from the Malaysian Examinations Syndicate website. CLICK HERE