OxfordAQA IGCSE Urdu: Current and Future Study and Employment — Practice Questions

These are original questions written for Marlbridge, in the style and at the standard of the examination. They are not reproduced past-paper questions — examination boards hold copyright in their own papers. Use these alongside the official past papers available free from your board.

Related: Theme 3 revision notes

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Section A — Vocabulary and grammar

1. Give the Urdu for: subject (school), timetable, college, doctor, ambition. [5]

2. Complete each sentence with the correct future-tense or “would like to” form:

(a) میں کالج میں اپنی تعلیم ______ (جاری رکھنا — will continue) [2] (b) میں ڈاکٹر ______ (بننا — would like to become) کیونکہ میں لوگوں کی مدد کرنا چاہتا ہوں۔ [2]

3. Rewrite as a conditional sentence: “میں محنت کروں گا۔ میں کامیاب ہو جاؤں گا۔” (join using “اگر…تو…”). [3]

Section B — Comprehension and writing

4. Read the short passage (in the style of a Theme 3 reading task), then answer in English:

“میرا پسندیدہ مضمون سائنس ہے کیونکہ مجھے تجربات کرنا پسند ہے۔ اسکول کے بعد، میں کالج میں سائنس پڑھوں گا۔ میں ڈاکٹر بننا چاہتا ہوں کیونکہ میں لوگوں کی مدد کرنا چاہتا ہوں۔ اگر میں محنت کروں تو مجھے یقین ہے کہ میں اپنا مقصد حاصل کر لوں گا۔”

(a) What is the writer’s favourite subject, and what reason do they give? [2] (b) What is the writer’s post-16 plan? [2] (c) Identify the writer’s career ambition, its justification, and the conditional statement at the end. [3]

5. Write approximately 90 words in Urdu about your current studies and your future plans, naming a favourite subject with a reason, a post-16 plan, and a career ambition with justification. [15]

Section C — School life and comparisons

6. Translate into English: “میرے نئے اسکول میں لائبریری اور کھیل کا میدان دونوں پرانے اسکول سے بہتر ہیں، لیکن یونیفارم کے قوانین زیادہ سخت ہیں۔” [5]

7. Explain why this sentence belongs to sub-topic 3.2 (Life at School/College) rather than 3.1 (My Studies), and identify the comparative structure used. [3]

8. A classmate writes: “میں مستقبل میں انجینئر بننا چاہتا ہوں۔” and stops there. Explain what is missing from this response for full justification marks, and rewrite it to include the missing element. [3]

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Worked answers

1. مضمون (subject) [1]، ٹائم ٹیبل (timetable) [1]، کالج (college) [1]، ڈاکٹر (doctor) [1]، مقصد/عزم (ambition) [1].

2. (a) میں کالج میں اپنی تعلیم جاری رکھوں گا [2] (future tense, correct verb agreement). (b) میں ڈاکٹر بننا چاہتا ہوں کیونکہ میں لوگوں کی مدد کرنا چاہتا ہوں۔ [2]

3. اگر میں محنت کروں تو میں کامیاب ہو جاؤں گا۔ (“If I work hard, I will succeed.”) [3] (correct conditional joining, matching verb forms in both clauses).

4. (a) Science, because the writer enjoys doing experiments [2]. (b) The writer will continue studying science at college after school [2]. (c) Ambition: to become a doctor [1]; justification: because the writer wants to help people [1]; conditional statement: if the writer works hard, they believe they will achieve their goal [1].

5. Full marks require: a named favourite subject with a reason introduced by “کیونکہ” [3–4]; a clearly stated post-16 plan in the future tense [3–4]; a career ambition using “بننا چاہتا ہوں/چاہتی ہوں” with a justification [4–5]; and ideally a closing conditional statement linking effort to the outcome [2–3]. Marks are lost for naming a subject or job with no reason attached, or for describing current studies only without ever moving into the future tense. A response that completes all elements in a natural sequence — present-tense subject and reason, future-tense plan, career ambition with justification — closely matches the assessment objectives for this task type.

6. “At my new school, both the library and the sports field are better than at my old school [3], but the uniform rules are stricter [2].” (One mark each for the two correctly rendered comparatives, one for correct sense overall, two for “stricter” and overall fluency.)

7. The sentence belongs to 3.2 because it concerns school facilities (library, sports field) and rules (uniform), not subject content or opinions on subjects, which would place it in 3.1 [2]. The comparative structure used is “بہتر ہیں” (are better) and “زیادہ سخت ہیں” (are stricter), comparing the new school directly against the old one [1].

8. The response names a career ambition (to become an engineer) but gives no reason or justification, which is what examiners specifically reward beyond a bare statement [1]. A stronger version adds a reason with “کیونکہ”: “میں مستقبل میں انجینئر بننا چاہتا ہوں کیونکہ مجھے ریاضی اور مسائل حل کرنا پسند ہے۔” (“I would like to become an engineer in future because I like maths and solving problems.”) [2]

A note on marking approach

As with Theme 2, examiners credit communication of meaning ahead of grammatical perfection: a response that includes all four required elements (subject/reason, post-16 plan, career ambition/justification, and ideally a conditional) with a minor verb-agreement slip scores higher than a technically accurate response that only describes current studies and never reaches the future-tense material this theme specifically tests. When self-marking a practice response, check first whether every required element is present, then check accuracy — a missing career ambition or an all-present-tense answer costs more than a handful of small grammar errors spread across an otherwise complete response. This applies equally across all four sub-topics of the theme, so a self-marking checklist covering subject-plus-reason, post-16 plan, career ambition-plus-justification, and a comparative or conditional structure is a more reliable revision habit than proofreading for spelling alone.