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WRITTEN TEST CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT (MAIN) (MANAGEMENT FOUNDATION STUDIES) (INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION STUDIES) Date : 28 February 2020 Module : SSEL Study Skills for Effective Learning Time : 14:15 - 16:15 Duration : 2 hours Total no. of pages : 8 pages (including this cover page) INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES: 1. This written test carries a total of 100 marks. Answer ALL questions: Section A (20 marks): 1 question Section B (30 marks): 1 question Section C (20 marks): 1 question Section D (30 marks): 1 question 2. Answer ALL questions in the test booklet provided. Fill in the cover page carefully. 3. All answers must be clearly written. Begin each question on a fresh page. 4. The use of dictionaries is not allowed for this test. 5. This is a closed book test. No unauthorised materials are allowed in the test venue. 6. This test paper is NOT to be removed from the test venue. It must be handed in together with your test answer booklet. At the end of the test: Please ensure that you have filled in the required details in the test answer booklet cover page: failure to do so will mean that your work cannot be identified. If you have used more than one test answer booklet, please tie them together. SIM GLOBAL EDUCATION RESERVES THE RIGHT NOT TO MARK YOUR SCRIPT IF YOU FAIL TO FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS.

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Read the following passage and answer ALL the questions in SECTIONS A and B. A. According to statistics, it is becoming increasingly rare in many Western countries for families to eat together. It seems that people no longer have time to enjoy a meal, let alone buy and prepare the ingredients. Meanwhile, fast food outlets are proliferating. Further evidence of the effects of the increasing pace of life can be seen on all sides. Motorists drum their fingers impatiently at stop lights. Tempers flare in supermarket queues. Saddest of all is the success of an American series of books called “One Minute Bedtime Stories”. What do parents do with the time thus saved? B. Experts on stress-related illness say the above are all symptoms of a modern epidemic called “hurry sickness”. The term was coined nearly 40 years ago by a prominent cardiologist who noticed that all of his heart disease patients had common behavioural characteristics, the most obvious being that they were in a chronic rush. Hurry sickness has been an issue in our culture ever since but the problem is escalating in degree and intensity, leading to rudeness, short-tempered behaviour and even violence, alongside a range of physical ills. C. The primary culprit is the increasing prevalence of technology like e-mail, cell phones, pagers and laptop computers. We can bring work home, into our bedrooms and on our vacations. Time has accelerated for so many people and there is an increased demand to do more in the same number of hours. Sociologists concur that time is being more compressed than ever. In the past, an overnight letter used to be a big deal. Now if you cannot send an email attachment, there is something wrong. Because the technology is available to us, there is an irresistible urge to use it. D. What about those annoying people who shout into their cell phones, oblivious to those around them? Self-centred behaviour is related to larger social trends as well as technology. There is a breakdown of the nuclear family, of community, of belonging, and an increased alienation and sense that we are all disconnected from one another. This breakdown came before the technology but the technology has exacerbated it. Now we connect through this technology minimising face-to-face interaction. Ironically as people pull their cell phones out in the most unlikely venues, our personal lives are available on a public level as never before. People are having work meetings and conversations about their spouses and their therapy sessions with complete impunity. E. There is more a sense of entitlement now than ever but there is more than civility at stake. This chronic impatience is damaging not only to our social environment but also to our physical health. It builds and then it does not take much to explode and for those who repress it, it’s equally damaging. The high tech revolution and the lifestyle it has spawned have brought with them a rash of serious health problems including heart attacks, palpitations, depressions, anxiety, immune disorders, digestive ills, insomnia and then migraines. Doctors say that human beings are not designed for prolonged, high-speed activity. When we look at our

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heart rates, brain-wave patterns – our basic physiology has not evolved to keep pace with the technology – we are hard-wired to be able to handle a ‘fight-flight’ response where the stress ends within five to ten minutes. In our current culture, though, we struggle for hours on end. F. Even children are not spared the ills of modern-day overload. There is a hidden epidemic of symptoms like hypertension, migraines and digestive problems among children as young as ten – disorders never before seen in children. Whether these symptoms result from being swept into the maelstrom of their parents’ lives or from full loads of extracurricular activities and unprecedented homework requires – up to five hours a night for some – children are experiencing the same sense of overload, time pressure and demands that their parents experience and they do not have coping mechanisms to deal with it. G. Recovery is possible but there is no quick fix. Many of these stress-related behaviours have become deeply ingrained to the point where people are hardly aware of them. The greatest paradox is that even when people are ready to change their behaviour, they are in a hurry to do so. H. Measures are taken to help people become aware of their stress and the impact it is having on their lives. They examine their belief systems and they learn to challenge their behaviours. One popular exercise is to assign a chronically impatient person to stand in the longest line in the grocery store. The only answer is to take it one day at a time. The irony is that all the techniques and technology designed to streamline our lives may ultimately be counterproductive. People are finding that all of this multi-tasking, rushing and worrying is not only making life intolerable but actually making them less efficient than they could otherwise be. Geller, Alyson (2014). Hurry sickness. MPH. Retrieved @ Oxygen website, scribd.com MFS/ITFS/SSEL/Feb2020/MainTest Page 4 of 8

SECTION A: (20 marks) Answer ALL questions. Question 1: Multiple-choice questions Choose the best answer that fits the question. Please tick (√) the most appropriate option on the answer sheet in the answer booklet. 1. Which of the following best describes the article? (A) Ways to improve your efficiency at work. (B) Illnesses caused by working too hard. (C) Problems arising from an increased pace of life. (D) The importance of relaxation. 2. One result of technology and a faster pace of life is that people ___________________. (A) frequently meet colleagues on a regular basis (B) have personal telephone conversations in public (C) need to visit therapists on a regular basis (D) no longer have offices to work from 3. A factor that contributes to ‘hurry sickness’ is ____________________. (A) jobs are less secure and people must work harder to keep them (B) people are becoming more hot-tempered (C) globalisation has led to 24-hour trading (D) increasing availability of technology 4. Experts suggest one root cause of serious health issues is _________________. (A) mankind is not created for an extended hectic lifestyle (B) there is no recreational time (C) people do not know how to express emotion (D) people have sleep disorder MFS/ITFS/SSEL/Feb2020/MainTest Page 5 of 8

5. According to the article, ways of coping and overcoming one’s stress level include the following: (i) To know one’s level of stress. (ii) To understand the impacts of stress. (iii) To maintain some favourite exercise. (iv) To reflect on what one believes. (A) (i), (ii) and (iii). (B) (i), (ii) and (iv). (C) (i), (iii) and (iv). (D) (ii), (iii) and (iv). 6. Paragraph B can be aptly summarised in the following heading ____________. (A) “People who rush have heart attacks” (B) “Hurry syndrome affects lifestyle and behavior” (C) “Modern illness is heart disease” (D) “Bad behaviour is increasing” 7. “Negative impacts on lifestyle and physical health” best fits ______________. (A) Paragraph C (B) Paragraph D (C) Paragraph E (D) Paragraph F 8. Which paragraph best fits the heading “Right solution is complicated”? (A) Paragraph E. (B) Paragraph F. (C) Paragraph G. (D) Paragraph H. 9. A most likely meaning of the word “proliferating” (paragraph A) is _____________________. (A) increasing rapidly (B) gaining slowly (C) infecting wildly (D) influencing gradually MFS/ITFS/SSEL/Feb2020/MainTest Page 6 of 8

10. The word “exacerbated” is similar in meaning to __________________. (A) allayed (B) ameliorated (C) alleviated (D) aggravated SECTION B (30 marks) Answer ALL questions. Question 2: Critical thinking and reading Provide short answers to the following questions. 1. What is the writer’s main thesis? The writer’s main thesis is that technology is making human life more fast paced than ever which leads to many illnesses and change in behaviour as human are not made to do such huge amount of work in a short span of time. Besides, this does not only affect adults but also children as they are asked to complete huge amount of work in a short time span. Furthermore, the writer states that recovery is available for this problem but it takes time but people tend to rush themselves into it. (5 marks) 2. To what extent do you agree and disagree with the article’s argument? You need to use your own examples to clarify your argument. I agree with the writer that technology has turned human’s life more fast paced. This is because it can be proven through surveys and even just the environment we live in. People are asked to complete a certain task in a short amount of time with the help of technology. I also agree with the writer that “hurry sickness” changes human behaviour such as making them hot tempered. This is because when people are asked to rush a certain task, they tend to get stressed out and the amount of anxiety in them increases. This leads them to let out their frustrations through anger which will disrespect others. I do not agree with the writer that children suffer the same amount of pressure as their parents. From my point of view, children are only given homework to be completed at home while their parents have to complete many different tasks such as meeting with clients and also finishing their reports where their parents would suffer even more pressure. The homework given to children these days might not be too much to handle but the additional work given to the children by their parent is the main cause of pressure among the children. Hence, it shouldn’t be stated that children are under pressure as different children of different families are brought up with different parenting skills. I also do not agree that lining up in the longest line in the grocery store would help cure stress. This is because there are many other and more affective ways of curing stress such as doing yoga or going for a jog. Lining up in the longest line seems more time consuming and it doesn’t seem like there is a need to do so. (10 marks) 3. When one’s impatience is considered to be “chronic”, what are the implications?

One’s impatience is considered to be chronic when they suffer from serious health problems including heart attacks, palpitations, depressions, anxiety, immune disorders, digestive ills, insomnia and then migraines due to the huge amount of stress. Besides that, a person who takes hours to react to “fight or flight” situations is also considered to be “chronic”. (5 marks)

4. What makes children’s experience of modern-day overload different from their parents’? The children’s experience of modern-day overload is different from their parents because children are given homework to be completed while their parents have different tasks to complete such as meeting up with clients and writing reports. The challenges their parents are different everyday while the challenges that children encounter are mostly similar and their daily schedule are almost the same. Besides that children are able to release their stress more than their parents as they are able to play and have fun at school compared to their parents who spend most of their time working. (5 marks) 5. What does it mean when we are ‘to take it one day at a time’? (5 marks) “To take it one day at a time” means that we do not expect things to change overnight. We are supposed to deal with each day’s challenges as they come instead of worrying about the future. Besides that, we are not supposed to rush things as they might not turn out well or get even worse. Dealing with every undesirable situation without thinking much about the outcome.

SECTION C (20 marks) Question 3: Summary writing In one paragraph of not more than 150 words, summarise the passage in your own words as far as possible. Indicate the number of words used to complete the summary.

These days, people are more impatient and parents spend less time with their children and family. This is due to “Hurry sickness” which increases causes a range of physical ills. People are asked to complete more tasks in the same amount of time. Besides, chronic impatience not only harms the social environment but also our physical health. Technology has caused serious health problems as humans are not made for prolonged and high-paced activity. Furthermore, even children are affected as they have to attend various activities in a short amount of time and are unable to cope with it. People tend to hurry the recovery process and are not aware of it. Hence, measures are taken to increase the people’s awareness such as examining their beliefs and challenging their behaviours. People should take one day at a time as multitasking makes them less efficient.

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SECTION D (30 marks) Question 4: Study Skills Provide short answers to the following questions. 1. Explain the concepts of independence and interdependence in Covey’s Seven habits of highly effective people. (6 marks) 2. The third time quadrant in Covey’s matrix is “The Prioritizer”. Name the other three. If you are “The Prioritizer”, what would be your TWO (2) values or areas of focus? (6 marks) 3. Mnemonics is a memorisation technique. Name THREE (3) of them. Using ONE (1) as an example, explain how it works. (6 marks) 4. Name TWO (2) methods of taking notes. Choose ONE (1) of them and discuss TWO (2) advantages of using this method. (6 marks) 5. Compare skimming and scanning methods of reading. Name ONE (1) similarity between them. What TWO (2) things do you need to do before scanning an article? (6 marks)...