Primary General Studies: Chinese Festivals And The Lunar Calendar (Paper 4 (error Clinic))

Primary General Studies: Chinese Festivals and the Lunar Calendar (Paper 4 (error clinic))

2026-11-13

Tutor Prep Guide · Chinese festivals, the lunar calendar, solar terms and leap months

Primary General Studies: Chinese Festivals and the Lunar Calendar (Paper 4 (error clinic))

Paper four drills the ten commonest slips: the dates of Lantern and Dragon Boat festivals, the lunar and solar year gap, solar term spacing, day counting, the nineteen year rule, leap year months and days, plus three concept questions on Qingming, New Year and leap months.

Direct answers　After each item write which definition you used; the wrong ones then become a marked revision list.

01　Paper details (check answers afterwards)

Item	Detail
Questions	10
Suggested time	20
Difficulty mix	Foundation 3 · Intermediate 3 · Challenge 3 · Error redo 1
Chapter	Chapter: Primary General Studies: Chinese Festivals and the Lunar Calendar
Level	parts of a closed circuit, conductors against insulators, series against parallel, adding up battery voltage, and electrical safety

02　Questions (10 items)

FoundationWhat is the lunar date of the Lantern Festival?
FoundationWhat is the lunar date of the Dragon Boat Festival?
FoundationHow many days short of the solar year is a lunar year of about 354 days?
IntermediateHow many solar terms fall in each month?
IntermediateAbout which day of the lunar year is the fifteenth of the eighth month?
IntermediateHow many leap months fall in nineteen years, and how often is that?
ChallengeHow many months and days are in a leap lunar year?
ChallengeA classmate says Qingming moves because it is a lunar festival. What is wrong?
ChallengeA classmate says lunar New Year is always on 1 January. What is wrong?
Error redoA classmate says a leap month means one extra day. What is wrong?

03　Answers and one-line notes

#	Answer	One-line note
1	The fifteenth day of the first month.	The first month plus a full moon day gives the date.
2	The fifth day of the fifth month.	Two fives give it the old name of double five.
3	11 days.	365 minus 354 is 11 days.
4	2.	Twenty-four divided by twelve is 2.
5	About day 220.	Seven months of 29.5 days give 206.5, plus fourteen makes 220.
6	7, about once every 2.7 years.	Nineteen divided by seven is 2.7, so one roughly every three years.
7	13 months, about 383 days.	Thirteen times 29.5306 is 383 days, one month longer than a common year.
8	Qingming is a solar term fixed by the sun, so it stays on 4 or 5 April.	Solar terms track the sun and stay put in the solar calendar; lunar festivals are the ones that drift.
9	Lunar New Year is the first day of the first month, drifting between late January and mid February.	The lunar year is shorter, so New Year moves earlier until a leap month pushes it back.
10	A leap month adds a whole month of about 29 days; a leap day adds just one day.	The lunar calendar catches up by adding a full month, which is why it is called a leap month.

04　What to do after marking

After marking, redo only the wrong items and write down which step went wrong (formula, unit, or misread number).
Repeat the same item two days later; move to the next paper only when both attempts are correct.
Parents only need the answer and note columns; there is no need to explain every item.

With all four done, go back to the chapter page and revise the three parts of a closed circuit plus three safety habits.Tutor Registration →

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