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TAMILGCE Advanced LevelPaper 9166/01Essay, Translation and ComprehensionGeneral commentsOverall, candidate performance was an improvement on last year. Candidates answered the comprehensionquestions well and answers to the essay questions were properly organised and structured.The following areas of candidate performance would benefit from further improvement:PhonologyCandidates still have problems identifying Tamil sounds, and hence the following mistakes occur:MorphologyCandidates need to understand the use of case makers. For example,. Candidates also used the spoken variety in their writing, suchas , which should have been written as .Doubling of consonants is another area which needs improvement. It was commonly observed in answers,for example, .SyntaxSome of the sentences found in candidates’ answers are given below:The syntactical errors found in the above sentences are obvious and should be brought to candidates’attention.65