LILONGWE CITY EXAMINATION BOARD

2025 END OF TERM THREE STANDARDIZED EXAMINATION FOR STANDARD 5

PRIMARY SCIENCE
(100 Marks)
Time Allowed: ________________
Date: ……./……/2025
NAME OF CANDIDATE: _______________________________________________________________
(Surname first)
NAME OF SCHOOL: __________________________________________________________________
INSTRUCTIONS
1. This paper contains 6 pages. Please check.
2. This paper has two section A and B. section A consists of 40 multiple choice questions carrying 1 mark
each. Encircle a letter of your choice representing the right answer to each question. Section B has 12
structured questions. Write your answers to this section on the question paper in the spaces provided.
The maximum number of marks for each answer is indicated against the questions.
3. Answer all questions
4. Please make sure you have written your name, school name on the question paper.
5. Please hand in your filled-in question paper to the invigilator at the end of the examination.
SECTION A (40MARKS)
AGRICULTURE 7. Which of the following is the common disease
1. To which sub branch of agriculture does the of maize in Malawi
growing of both fruits and vegetables belong? A. Head smut C. Rodent
A. Olericulture C. Floriculture B. Army worm D. Rosette
B. Pomoculture D. Horticulture 8. Which of the following is the importance of
2. The following are the characteristics of exotic agriculture
trees except A. Source of machine
A. Have soft wood B. Source of minerals
B. Withstand drought C. Source of food
C. Are not disease resistant D. Source of soil
D. Grow fast 9. Give one activity that is involved in land
3. Which of the following is the use of a rake preparation
A. Loosening soil A. Harvesting
B. Lifting seedlings B. Clearing the land
C. Leveling beds C. Weeding
D. Making holes D. Mulching
4. Which of the following is a raw material for Figure 1 shows a farm implement. Use it to
paper making answer question 10 – 11
A. Trees C. Cotton
B. Hides D. Sugarcane
5. Which of the following is the end products of
cotton
A. Sugar C. Molasses
B. Cooking oil D. Clothes
6. The removal of unwanted plants in the garden
is known as
A. Feeding C. Wedding
B. Breeding D. Housing 10. Identify the common farm tool
A. Bake C. Sickle
B. Watering cane D. Handle
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11. Give the use of farm tool 19. Which of the following is the activity that
A. Watering plants people do in order to make profit
B. Leveling beds A. Business
C. Mowing glass B. Weeding
D. Cutting trees C. Crop production
12. Define the term crop husbandry practices D. Animal production
A. Growing of trees together with arable 20. Give two methods of controlling diseases on
crops animal production
B. Growing of maize only A. Quarantine and vaccination
C. Are activities that are carried out when B. Spraying and dipping
growing crops C. Grow slowly
D. Growing of arable crops only D. Ticks
13. Mention two types of farming SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
A. Crop and animal 21. Which of the following food sources are
B. Subsistence and commercial farming proteins
C. Fruit and flower A. Potatoes and eggs
D. Vegetables and table B. Eggs and meat
14. Mention one animal which produce milk C. Vegetables and meat
A. Duck C. Chicken D. Sorghum and flying ants
B. Cattle D. Rat 22. Which of the following animals is a carnivores
15. Which of the following is an element of A. Butterfly C. Goat
agricultural environment B. Pig D. Lion
A. Farm records Figure 3 shows an indigenous technology.
B. Financial records Use it to answer questions 23 and 24
C. Soil
D. Goat
Figure 2 is a diagram showing a weed which
attacks crops in the garden. Use it to answer
question 16 and 17 23. Name the indigenous technology
A. Mortar and pestle
B. Bow and arrow
C. Catapult
D. Grinding stone
24. What is the use of the technology shown
above
A. Hunting
B. Shelling maize
C. Sawing timber
16. Identify the weed above D. Processing food
A. Witch weed C. Amaranthus 25. The other name of kinetic energy is called
B. Star grass D. Kapanthi A. Heat energy
17. Which of the following crops is attacked by B. Energy of movement
the weed C. Potential energy
A. Groundnuts C. Maize D. Sound energy
B. Cotton D. Tobacco 26. What is food?
18. Which of the following is the importance of A. Anything we eat
soil B. Anything animals eat
A. Destroy plants C. Anything which when eaten or drunk
B. Apply manure make the body function properly
C. Dissolve nutrients D. Anything both animals and crops eat
D. Holds plants 27. Which of the following is the interpretation
of the language used in a message
A. Model C. Coding
B. Technology D. Decoding
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28. Which of the following is the problem of 34. State one way of preventing the worm
marketing A. Vomiting
A. Bad roads C. Moving fast B. Loss of weight
B. Selling goods D. Bad people C. Always wash hands after using the toilet
29. Which of the following nutrients is found in D. Fever
vegetables 35. Which of the following are examples of
A. Vitamins and carbohydrates technologies used for sending and receiving
B. Vitamins and minerals messages are
C. Proteins and minerals A. Radio and a chair
D. Fats and vitamins B. A cell phone and a table
30. The air which is produced by plants and used C. A radio and a clock face
by animals is called D. A cell phone and a radio
A. Oxygen C. Carbon dioxide 36. Which of the following is the good healthy
B. Air D. Water habits
31. Which of the following is an advantage of a A. Washing hands after visiting the toilets
telephone B. Wearing shoes when playing
A. Cheap C. Slow C. Washing feet after visiting the toilets
B. Weak D. Fast D. Wearing white clothes before eating
32. Which of the following is a way of classifying 37. How can we produce sound energy
animals A. Lighting candle
A. According to the food they eat B. Beating
B. According to size C. Connecting wire, bulb and battery
C. According to shape D. For seeing
D. According to where they live 38. Which of the following is the first stage in
Figure 4 shows a worm. Use it to answer scientific investigation
questions 33 and 34 A. Planning the investigation
B. Making conclusions
C. Knowing the problem
D. Making prediction
39. Which of the following is a way of carrying
out scientific investigation
A. Through predictions
33. Identify the worm B. Through investigations
A. Tape worm C. Hook worm C. Though results
B. Roundworm D. Earth worm D. Through experiments
40. The ability to do work is called
A. Energy C. Light
B. Sound D. Computer

SECTION B(60MARKS)
AGRICULTURE
41. (a) Name two main branches of agriculture
i. ______________________________________________________________________________
ii. ________________________________________________________________________2marks
(b) What is the difference between food and cash crops
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___________________________________________________________________________2marks
(c) Give one importance of trees
i. _________________________________________________________________________1mark
42. (a) Give two effects of diseases on animal production
i. ______________________________________________________________________________
ii. ________________________________________________________________________2marks
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 (b)State two importance of improving local breeds
i. ______________________________________________________________________________
ii. ________________________________________________________________________2marks
(c)Give one type of cattle house
i. _________________________________________________________________________1mark
43. (a) What are animal husbandry practices?
_________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________2marks
(b) Mention two planted forest in Malawi
i. ______________________________________________________________________________
ii. ________________________________________________________________________2marks
(c) Give one importance of farm animals
i. _________________________________________________________________________1mark
Figure 5 shows ways of storing maize. Use it to answer question 44

44. (a) Identify the diagram above

____________________________________________________________________________1mark
(b) State two methods of harvesting maize
i. ______________________________________________________________________________
ii. ________________________________________________________________________2marks
(c) Define a pest?
_________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________2marks
45. (a) Classify the following crops into cash and food crops: tobacco, sorghum, maize, cotton
Cash crops Food crops

4marks
(b) What is agriculture?
_________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________1mark
46. (a) Explain why farming is regarded as a business
_________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________2marks
(b) State any two farm business activities
i. ______________________________________________________________________________
ii. ________________________________________________________________________2marks
(c)Define agricultural environment?
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____________________________________________________________________________1mark
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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
47. (a) Give two functions of food in the body
i. ______________________________________________________________________________
ii. ________________________________________________________________________2marks
(b) What is food chain?
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___________________________________________________________________________2marks
(c) List one example of energy giving foods
i. _________________________________________________________________________1mark
48. (a) Complete the food chain below
Grasshopper chicken people
2marks
(b) Copy the table below and fill in the uses of the different types of energy
Type of energy Uses of energy
1. Light
2. Electrical
4marks
(c) What causes tapeworm
____________________________________________________________________________1mark
49. (a) Draw and name one technology used for sending and receiving messages

2marks
(b) Mention any two food taboos and beliefs
i. ______________________________________________________________________________
ii. ________________________________________________________________________2marks
(c) Name any one effects of food taboos and beliefs
i. _________________________________________________________________________1mark
50. (a) Define marketing?
_________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________2marks
(b) Mention two marketing technologies
i. ______________________________________________________________________________
ii. ________________________________________________________________________2marks
(c) Animals without backbones are called
____________________________________________________________________________1mark
51. (a) Mention two signs and symptoms of hook worms
i. ______________________________________________________________________________
ii. ________________________________________________________________________2marks

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 (b) Define scientific investigation?
_________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________2marks
(c) What is decoding?
_________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________1mark
52. (a) State any two effects of malnutrition
i. ______________________________________________________________________________
ii. ________________________________________________________________________2marks
(b) State two importance of washing fruits and vegetables before eating them
i. ______________________________________________________________________________
ii. ________________________________________________________________________2marks
(c) State one example of a herbivore
i. _________________________________________________________________________1mark

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