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- Wanjala Chris (Ed): Memories we lost and other stories
The greatest casualties of any civil war are the civilians. Write an essay in support of...(Solved)
Wanjala Chris (Ed): Memories we lost and other stories
The greatest casualties of any civil war are the civilians. Write an essay in support of the above assertion drawing your illustrations from Mariatu Kemara’s ‘ The president’
Date posted: September 11, 2019.
- David Mulwa: InheritanceArtistically, David Mulwa has criticized the folly of poor leadership in any given society. Using his text the Inheritance, write an essay to...(Solved)
David Mulwa: Inheritance
Artistically, David Mulwa has criticized the folly of poor leadership in any given society. Using his text the Inheritance, write an essay to validate this statement.
Date posted: September 11, 2019.
- Identify and explain two faults in the light circuit shown in the figure below.(Solved)
Identify and explain two faults in the light circuit shown in the figure below.
Date posted: September 11, 2019.
- The figure below shows an arrangement of three components. If the total capacitance of the capacitors is 5µf, determine the value of X.(Solved)
The figure below shows an arrangement of three components. If the total capacitance of the capacitors is 5μf, determine the value of X.
Date posted: September 11, 2019.
- Study the diagram and use it to answer the question that follow.(Solved)
Study the diagram and use it to answer the question that follow.
(i) State the observations in the combustion tube.
(ii) Describe the chemical test for product B.
Date posted: September 11, 2019.
- The figure below shows the image formed when an object is placed in front of a concave lens.(Solved)
The figure below shows the image formed when an object is placed in front of a concave lens.
Using suitable rays, locate the position of the object.
Date posted: September 11, 2019.
- In the circuit shown below, the battery has an e.m.f. of 6.6V and internal resistance of 0.3 ohms.(Solved)
In the circuit shown below, the battery has an e.m.f. of 6.6V and internal resistance of 0.3 ohms.
Determine the reading of the ammeter.
Date posted: September 11, 2019.
- David Mulwa: Inheritance
A Leader who is unfit to rule occasions untold suffering for the citizens of his/her country. Drawing illustrations from David Mulwa’s Inheritance,...(Solved)
David Mulwa: Inheritance
A Leader who is unfit to rule occasions untold suffering for the citizens of his/her country. Drawing illustrations from David Mulwa’s Inheritance, write an essay showing the validity of this statement.
Date posted: September 11, 2019.
- Complete the table below.(Solved)
Complete the table below.
Date posted: September 11, 2019.
- Chris Wanjala: Memories we Lost and Other Stories
Though now independent, African countries still face many challenges. Using illustrations from Benjamin Branoff’s Window Seat, write a...(Solved)
Chris Wanjala: Memories we Lost and Other Stories
Though now independent, African countries still face many challenges. Using illustrations from Benjamin Branoff’s Window Seat, write a composition in support of this statement.
Date posted: September 11, 2019.
- The element of an electric hot plate has a resistance of 120 ohms. What is the energy dissipated when element is kept on for 10...(Solved)
The element of an electric hot plate has a resistance of 120 ohms. What is the energy dissipated when element is kept on for 10 minutes on a 240V supply?
Date posted: September 11, 2019.
- Henry R. Ole Kulet: Blossoms of the Savannah
Our relatives, friends and acquaintances can often be the cause of our troubles. Drawing illustrations from...(Solved)
Henry R. Ole Kulet: Blossoms of the Savannah
Our relatives, friends and acquaintances can often be the cause of our troubles. Drawing illustrations from Henry R. Ole Kulet’s Blossoms of the Savannah, write an essay in support of this assertion
Date posted: September 11, 2019.
- Nitrogen (II) oxide can be prepared by catalytic oxidation of ammonia. Name the catalyst used in the process.(Solved)
Nitrogen (II) oxide can be prepared by catalytic oxidation of ammonia. Name the catalyst used in the process.
Date posted: September 11, 2019.
- Explain the two meanings in the following sentence.(Solved)
Explain the two meanings in the following sentence.
Wambua loves swimming more than Kioko.
Date posted: September 11, 2019.
- Use the correct form of the word in brackets to complete the sentences. (Solved)
Use the correct form of the word in brackets to complete the sentences.
i. The election officials complained that it was ........ of the government not to pay them in time.(reason)
ii. The driver was accused of poor .............of the vehicle. (maintain)
Date posted: September 11, 2019.
- When hydrocarbon was completely burnt in air, 2.51g of carbon (IV) oxide and 1.28g of water were formed. Given that the compound has a relative...(Solved)
When hydrocarbon was completely burnt in air, 2.51g of carbon (IV) oxide and 1.28g of water were formed. Given that the compound has a relative molecular mass of 58, find its molecular formular (C = 12, H=1).
Date posted: September 11, 2019.
- Fill in the blank spaces with the correct form of the word in brackets.(Solved)
Fill in the blank spaces with the correct form of the word in brackets.
i. To .............(they/them) everything is acceptable.
ii. It is .................(they/ them) who assisted the accident victims.
iii. Joan, together with her friends,............... (drive/ drives) the car.
Date posted: September 11, 2019.
- Replace the underlined word(s) with appropriate phrasal verb. (Solved)
Replace the underlined word(s) with appropriate phrasal verb.
i. I was excited when I accidentally met an old friend in town.
ii. The employer was disappointed by the lazy workers.
Date posted: September 11, 2019.
- The figure below shows a rectangular block of wood attached to a spring balance being pulled gently by a pulling force P at a steady...(Solved)
The figure below shows a rectangular block of wood attached to a spring balance being pulled gently by a pulling force P at a steady velocity.
i. A graph of pulling force against time was drawn as shown below.
I. State the forces FA and FB.
II. From the graph, state what happens to the block of wood between point P and Q. (1mk)
ii. Given that the wooden box has a mass of 2.0kg and requires force of 5N to pull it with uniform speed along a horizontal surface, calculate the coefficient of friction between the surface and the block. Take (g = 10N/kg).
Date posted: September 11, 2019.
- During electrolysis of a sulphate of metal M, using M electrodes, a current of 0.5A was passed through the solution for 12 minutes, 52 seconds....(Solved)
During electrolysis of a sulphate of metal M, using M electrodes, a current of 0.5A was passed through the solution for 12 minutes, 52 seconds. The mass at the cathode increases from 2.40g to 2.44g. Determine the charge of metal M (1f = 96500C,M = 20).
Date posted: September 11, 2019.
- Rewrite the following sentences correctly. (Solved)
Rewrite the following sentences correctly.
i. If I was the president, I would have jailed corrupt people.
ii. The raging fire destroyed a lot of properties.
iii. "Repeat the statement again. I did not understand."
Date posted: September 11, 2019.
- Read the excerpt below and then answer the questions that follow. (Solved)
Read the excerpt below and then answer the questions that follow.
Helmer: Miserable creature – what have you done?
Nora: Let me go. You shall not suffer for my sake. You shall not take it upon yourself.
Helmer: No tragic airs, please.(Locks the hall door.) Here you shall stay and give me an explanation. Do you understand what you have done? Answer me! Do you understand what you have done?
Nora: (Looks steadily at him and says with a growing look of coldness in her face) Yes, now I am beginning to understand thoroughly.
Helmer: (walking about the room) What a horrible awakening! All these eight years- she who was my joy and pride- a hypocrite, a liar – worse, worse – a criminal! The unutterable ugliness of it all! – For shame! For shame! (NORA is silent and looks steadily at him. He stops in front of her.) I ought to have suspected that something of the sort would happen. I ought to have foreseen it. All your father’s want of principle – be silent! - all your father’s want of principle has come out in you. No religion, no morality, no sense of duty -. How I am punished for having winked at what he did! I did it for your sake, and this is how you repay me.
Nora: Yes, that’s just it.
Helmer: Now you have destroyed all my happiness. You have ruined all my future. It is horrible to think of! I am in the power of an unscrupulous man; he can do what he likes with me, ask anything he likes of me, give me any orders he please - I dare not refuse. And I must sink to such miserable depths because of a thoughtless woman!
Nora: When I am out of the way, you will be free.
a) Explain what has happened immediately before this excerpt
b) What does Nora mean by saying, "You shall not suffer for my sake."? Explain.
c) How is Helmer’s attitude towards Nora in this extract different from earlier in the book? Explain.
d) What thematic concern is addressed in this excerpt?
e) "I am in the power of an unscrupulous man; he can do what he likes with me, ask anything he likes of me, give me any orders he pleases - I dare not refuse." Who is Helmer talking about and why does he make such comments about the person?
f) Discuss any style evident in the excerpt.
g) Identify and illustrate the prevalent mood in the excerpt
h) "Here you shall stay and give me an explanation."Rewrite beginning: You....
i) "When I am out of the way, you will be free." Give two meanings of Nora’s words from the rest of the play
j) Explain the meaning of the following expressions as used in the extract.
i. Take it upon yourself....................
ii. No tragic airs.................
iii. Your father’s want of principle ...................
iv. Unscrupulous man .....................
Date posted: September 11, 2019.
- The diagram below shows a straight line intersecting the curve y = (x – 1)2 + 4(Solved)
The diagram below shows a straight line intersecting the curve y = (x – 1)2 + 4 at the points P and Q. The line also cuts the x – axis at (7, 0) and y – axis at (0, 7)
(a) Find the equation of the straight line in the form y = mx + c.
(b) Find the co-ordinates of P and Q
(c) Calculate the area of the shaded region.
Date posted: September 11, 2019.
- Ammonia gas can be prepared as shown:(Solved)
Ammonia gas can be prepared as shown:
State and explain the observations made if the pressure is increased in the system.
Date posted: September 11, 2019.
- A stretched spring with a load attached to one end and fixed at the other is released as shown below.(Solved)
A stretched spring with a load attached to one end and fixed at the other is released as shown below.
Sketch on the same axis below the graph of potential energy and kinetic energy with time
Date posted: September 11, 2019.
- Boeing 707 plane flies from Nairobi to South Africa. It has 600m2 of cabin space and can carry
5000kg of luggage.(Solved)
Boeing 707 plane flies from Nairobi to South Africa. It has 600m2 of cabin space and can carry
5000kg of luggage. An economy class passenger gets 3m2 of space is allowed 20kg of luggage.
A first class passenger gets 4m2 of space and is allowed 50kg of luggage. There must be space for At least 50 economy class passengers.
Let x be the number of economy seats and y be the number of first class seats
(i) List down all inequalities that satisfy these conditions.
(ii) Use the grid provided below to represent the region where x and y must lie.
(iii) The profit per flight from an economy seat is sh.4000 and from a first class seat is sh.10000
Use your graph to determine the allocation of seats which will give maximum profit.
Date posted: September 11, 2019.
- Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow. (Solved)
Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow.
Ask any youngster what living with their parents is like and they will most likely tell you it is pure hell. They hate being told what to do, or taking orders or having to explain where they are going or coming from, especially girls. Young people hate asking for permission to go anywhere, and even worse being told that they must be back by a certain time. They hate having to ask for permission to use something or do something at home and consider these requirements an infringement on their freedom. So while parents believe they are inculcating good behavior in their children, the youngsters see it as dictatorship.
Another thorny issue is religion. I dearly remember what happened when I decided to attend a church different from my mother’s. She told me in no uncertain terms that if I wanted to continue going to my new church, I would have to move out because she would not allow it. I found my parents’ restrictions rather stifling and could not wait for the day I would move out of home. I fantasized about going on outings that were forbidden at home, returning home late, going wherever I wanted whenever I wanted, returning from work and just lazing on the couch, leaving my bed unmade or my clothes lying around with no one to tell me that my room was a mess.
When it came to resources, mum would scold us if we left the door of the jiko open while heating our bath water or left the food to cook for an unnecessarily long time on the kerosene stove. She would breathe fire about our wastefulness, while reminding us of the high cost of living. She would conclude by telling us that she would not allow it in her house. My dad would be equally furious if he found the lights on in a room that was not being used. On several occasions he threatened not to pay the electricity bill and leave us in darkness for a while so that we could learn to save resources. Sometimes my siblings would laugh and wonder what our parents were making such a fuss about. At other times we would be angry and grumble that they were stingy and did not want to see us happy; how we longed to get away from them.
But when the time to leave home finally came, I was apprehensive and wondered what life without my parents would be like. One moment I would be happy to be free, with no one to order me around, the next moment I would be having doubts. When you are young, you think you have the freedom to do as you please. But after doing something “forbidden” once or twice, you begin
having second thoughts. You realize, since you never used to go on outings for instance, you won’t miss much by staying indoors most of the time instead of coming back late.
You now have to pay your bills and realize that you have to cut costs, you remove your bath water from the stove before it boils and do not allow milk to boil for a second longer than necessary, and of course you switch off the lights in any room that’s not being used. Suddenly, you realize that you are living by the very rules you resented in your parents’ home. You are learning to use resources wisely now that you have to take care of yourself. When you start a family, you impose the same restrictions on your children. If there is one thing you cannot run away from, it is responsibility. What I have learnt is that when your parents are tough with you, they are only teaching you to be responsible. As the saying goes “only the wearer of the shoe knows where the shoe pinches.” I now understand why my parents gave me a tongue lashing whenever I misused resources.
a) Make notes on why youngsters say living with parents is pure hell
b) What would youngsters prefer rather than give in to their parents’ dictatorship?
c) According to the passage, parents are economical. Validate this statement.
d) In your opinion, are parents out to punish children by setting rules and regulations in the homes?
e) Explain the writer’s attitude towards leaving home when the time came.
f) Comment on the irony in the passage.
g) Explain the meaning of the following saying as used in the passage.
'Only the wearer of the shoe knows where the shoe pinches'
h) Mother would breathe fire about our wastefulness while reminding us of the high cost of living. (Rewrite beginning: Not only ............)
i) Explain the meaning of the following words as used in the passage
i. Stifling..............
ii. Stingy.......................
iii. Resented.....................
Date posted: September 11, 2019.
- Figure below shows a wheel and axle of radius R and r respectively.(Solved)
Figure below shows a wheel and axle of radius R and r respectively.
(a) Show that the velocity ratio of the system is given by 
(b) Given that r = 5cm, R = 20cm and an effort of 1200N is used to lift a load of 3000N. Determine:
i. The work done by effort to raise the load through a distance of 2m.
ii. The efficiency of the system.
iii. State two ways in which the efficiency in (ii) above can be increased.
Date posted: September 11, 2019.
- Three towns are located on the earth’s surface at the co-ordinates P(150N, 450E)(Solved)
Three towns are located on the earth’s surface at the co-ordinates P(150N, 450E), Q(300S, 450E) and R(150N, 900E). A plane A flies from P to Q in 6 hours 40 minutes using the shortest route between the two towns. Another plane B takes off from town P at the same time as A and flies to town R along the parallel of latitude.
(a) Calculate the shortest distance between towns P and Q in km.
(b) Find the distance in km traveled by plane B between P and R to the nearest km
(c) If the two planes fly at the same speed determine to the nearest minute, which plane Reaches its destination earlier and by how long.
(Take pi=22/7 and radius of earth R = 6370km)
Date posted: September 11, 2019.
- The figure below is a rectangular base pyramid with the base ABCD and vertex V.(Solved)
The figure below is a rectangular base pyramid with the base ABCD and vertex V.
VC=VB=VA=VD=39 AB=24 and BC = 18 EF = 8cm FG = 6cm
(a) Calculate the height VO of the Pyramid.
(b) The Pyramid is cut along a plane EFGH parallel to ABCD as shown.
(i) Calculate the angle between VHE and VBC
(ii) Calculate the angle between ABGH and ABCD
Date posted: September 11, 2019.