An audit compares your finished rumusan with the passage to see whether every point the focus needs is present. It asks what you covered, not how many sentences you wrote.
The lesson is part of rumusan decisions with competing evidence. For the length side of the check, see word count and task coverage.
What does the audit look like?
Draw four columns: passage idea, matches the focus, found in my rumusan, action. Fill in one row for each idea in the passage, not each sentence.
Only the rows that match the focus need a “found in my rumusan” answer. A missing point becomes an “add” action, and an unwanted one becomes a “delete” action.
Worked audit on an original passage
The passage is about a school recycling project. The question asks for langkah yang diambil oleh sekolah.
Sekolah menyediakan tong kitar semula di setiap blok. Pengawas bertugas mengasingkan sampah pada waktu rehat. Sekolah juga mengadakan kempen bulanan di dalam kelas. Kantin berhenti menggunakan bekas polistirena. Akibatnya, jumlah sampah berkurang.
A student wrote: “Sekolah menyediakan tong kitar semula di setiap blok. Pengawas mengasingkan sampah semasa rehat. Kantin berhenti menggunakan polistirena.”
| Passage idea | Focus match | In rumusan? | Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tong kitar semula | Yes | Yes | None |
| Pengawas mengasingkan sampah | Yes | Yes | None |
| Kempen bulanan | Yes | No | Add |
| Kantin tanpa polistirena | Yes | Yes | None |
| Sampah berkurang | No, it is kesan | No | Leave out |
The student wrote three sentences, which looks complete. The audit finds that one langkah, the monthly campaign, is missing. The last row is correctly left out because it is a result.
The repair
Add the missing point in a joined sentence: “Sekolah juga mengadakan kempen bulanan di dalam kelas untuk menyedarkan murid.” The added phrase “untuk menyedarkan murid” goes beyond the passage, which states no purpose, so remove it.
The safe version is: “Sekolah juga mengadakan kempen bulanan di dalam kelas.”
The mistake that costs marks
The error is stopping at a number: “I have five sentences, so I am done.” The number says nothing about the focus.
The audit replaces the number with a question: which idea that the focus requires is not yet in my paragraph? Run it on every rumusan, even short ones.
Check yourself
The focus is “kesan”. The passage ideas are: lampu jalan rosak (punca), penduduk takut keluar malam, kadar jenayah meningkat, pihak majlis berjanji membaiki lampu (langkah). A student’s rumusan mentions only penduduk takut keluar malam. What does the audit find?
Answer
The focus-matching ideas are “penduduk takut keluar malam” and “kadar jenayah meningkat”. The student included the first but not the second, so the action is to add “kadar jenayah meningkat”.
The punca (lampu rosak) and the langkah (janji membaiki) do not match a kesan focus, so they should not be added.
What to study next
Put the four lessons together on the section practice page. For the basics, return to the main rumusan route.
To run audits on your own rumusan with a teacher, see online one-to-one Bahasa Melayu tuition.