Automated PLE Science Exam Paper Generator

✅ Official UNEB Section B Scoring Guide (Total: 4 Marks):

(a) (i) Zinc can (negative terminal). (ii) Carbon / Graphite rod with brass cap (positive terminal). (b) It acts as the chemical electrolyte that allows ionic conduction of charges. (c) The active chemicals (zinc and ammonium chloride) are completely consumed by the chemical reaction.

💡 Examiner Deduction Warning: Zinc serves as both the container and the negative terminal.

✅ Official UNEB Section B Scoring Guide (Total: 4 Marks):

(a) (i) Orange (ii) Violet (b) Due to the difference in speeds and wavelengths of the different colors of light as they travel through glass (c) A rainbow is formed when white sunlight is refracted, dispersed, and totally internally reflected by airborne raindrops acting as tiny prisms

💡 Examiner Deduction Warning: Cognitive Level: Comprehension & Application (C & A).

✅ Official UNEB Section B Scoring Guide (Total: 4 Marks):

(a) The tin can crushed / collapsed inward. (b) Cold water condensed the steam inside into liquid water, creating a partial vacuum (low air pressure) inside. The higher atmospheric air pressure outside crushed the can inward. (c) Condensation (gas/steam turning into liquid water).

💡 Examiner Deduction Warning: A classic 4-mark PLE question.

✅ Official UNEB Section B Scoring Guide (Total: 4 Marks):

(a) First class lever (b) Load × Load Arm = Effort × Effort Arm (Clockwise moments equal Anticlockwise moments) (c) Accept any two of: - Pair of scissors - See-saw - Claw hammer (when pulling out nails) - Beam balance - Pliers

💡 Examiner Deduction Warning: Cognitive Level: Application (A).

✅ Official UNEB Section B Scoring Guide (Total: 4 Marks):

(a) Chlorophyll (b) Ferns make their own food through photosynthesis (autotrophic nutrition), whereas mushrooms cannot make food and absorb nutrients from decaying organic matter (saprophytic nutrition) (c) Accept any two of: - Mosses - Liverworts - Horsetails - Algae - Hornworts

💡 Examiner Deduction Warning: Cognitive Level: Comprehension (C).

✅ Official UNEB Section B Scoring Guide (Total: 4 Marks):

(a) Gas state / Gaseous state (b) (i) Sublimation (ii) Freezing / Solidification (c) Camphor / Iodine crystals / Ammonium chloride / Dry ice (solid carbon dioxide)

💡 Examiner Deduction Warning: Cognitive Level: Knowledge & Comprehension (K & C).

✅ Official UNEB Section B Scoring Guide (Total: 4 Marks):

(a) Raised dish drying rack (or Plate stand). (b) (i) Keeps plates away from crawling insects, dogs, and chickens (ii) Prevents mud and dust splashes from dirtying clean plates. (c) The ultraviolet (UV) rays of sunlight kill harmful bacteria on the plates.

💡 Examiner Deduction Warning: Award 4 marks for complete sanitation rationale.

✅ Official UNEB Section B Scoring Guide (Total: 4 Marks):

(a) Vena cava (Superior and Inferior vena cava) (b) Oxygenated blood (c) Accept any two of: - Have thick muscular walls to withstand high blood pressure from the heart - Have narrow lumen to maintain high pressure - Have elastic walls to expand and recoil as blood pulses - Have no valves (except at the base of the aorta and pulmonary artery)

💡 Examiner Deduction Warning: Cognitive Level: Comprehension & Knowledge (C & K).

✅ Official UNEB Section B Scoring Guide (Total: 4 Marks):

(a) Tsetse fly (b) Larva stage (maggots) / Adult fly (c) Blood (from humans and livestock) (d) Through biting and sucking blood (injects saliva containing Plasmodium parasites)

💡 Examiner Deduction Warning: Cognitive Level: Knowledge & Comprehension (K & C).

✅ Official UNEB Section B Scoring Guide (Total: 4 Marks):

(a) Accept any two of: - Cold-blooded (poikilothermic) - Live both on land and in water - Lay eggs in water covered in jelly - Undergo external fertilization - Breathe through moist skin and lungs (gills at larval/tadpole stage) (b) Accept any two of: - Fish breathe using gills throughout their lives, while adult amphibians breathe using lungs and moist skin - Fish have fins for swimming, while amphibians have limbs (legs) with webbed toes - Fish have scales covering their bodies, while amphibians have smooth moist skin without scales - Fish have a lateral line to detect vibrations, while amphibians detect sound using eardrums

💡 Examiner Deduction Warning: Cognitive Level: Comprehension (C).

✅ Official UNEB Section B Scoring Guide (Total: 4 Marks):

(a) Drowning is dying due to lungs being filled with water, whereas near drowning is a condition where lungs are filled with water and breathing fails, but the casualty is not yet dead. (b) Any two of: Inability to swim, capsizing of boats in a storm, floods, or getting a muscle cramp while in deep water. (c) Pull them out of the water immediately and apply mouth-to-mouth resuscitation (Kiss of life) followed by chest compressions (CPR).

✅ Official UNEB Section B Scoring Guide (Total: 4 Marks):

(a) A short circuit is an accidental direct connection between live and neutral wires with near-zero resistance, resulting in dangerously high current flow. (b) 1. Frayed, worn-out, or damaged insulation on cables. 2. Overloading multi-plug sockets with heavy appliances. (c) Ordinary water contains dissolved minerals and is a good electrical conductor, which will shock and electrocute anyone attempting to put out the fire.

💡 Examiner Deduction Warning: Never use water on electrical fires—use dry powder or carbon dioxide fire extinguishers.

✅ Official UNEB Section B Scoring Guide (Total: 4 Marks):

(a) Foot rot. (b) Wet, muddy, and dung-filled dirty floors. (c) (i) Regularly trim overgrown hooves (ii) Walk goats through a copper sulphate footbath (iii) Keep pens clean and dry (use slatted floors).

💡 Examiner Deduction Warning: Practical veterinary question.

✅ Official UNEB Section B Scoring Guide (Total: 4 Marks):

(a) Dehydration (loss of water and essential mineral salts). (b) Any two of: Sunken eyes, dry lips, pale skin that does not snap back when pinched, or extreme body weakness. (c) Administering Oral Rehydration Solution (ORS) or extra fluids like coconut water.

✅ Official UNEB Section B Scoring Guide (Total: 4 Marks):

(a) A physical change does not take place in living things and is reversible, whereas a biological change takes place exclusively in living organisms and is irreversible. (b) (i) Melting (ii) Evaporation / Boiling (c) Evaporation

💡 Examiner Deduction Warning: Clear distinction in reversibility and living vs non-living matter.