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The Incorporation of the University Birds I View Bill Montevecchi Red-breasted nuthatch or upside-down bird (photo: Bill Montevecchi) For the past 30 years I have been fortunate to work at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. I love the people and the place. During my time there have been lots of changes and transitions. Some for better, some for worse. When I first arrived, our faculty consisted primarily of Brits, Yanks and Upper Canadians in about equal proportions.

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2008 HSC

Specimen

Examination

Package

German Beginners
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2008 Higher School Certificate Specimen Examination Paper

German Beginners

Introduction
This package contains:
• a specimen examination paper for the 2008 Higher School Certificate written
examination in German Beginners (including a transcript of the Section I
Listening texts);
• a mapping grid, showing how each question in the examination relates to the
syllabus outcomes and content, and to the performance bands;
• sample marking guidelines for questions in Sections I, II and III;
• the malines for the oral examination;
• the performance band descriptions for German Beginners, which have been
modified to reflect the changes in the revised syllabus.

The HSC examination in German Beginners consists of a written paper worth
80 marks and an oral examination worth 20 marks. The oral examination is a general
conversation between the candidate and an examiner, in which they discuss the
candidate s personal world as it relates to the prescribed topics in the syllabus. The
marking guidelines for the oral examination are also published on the Board s website
at http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/syllabus_hsc/.

This specimen paper has been produced in accordance with the Board s Principles for
Setting HSC Examinations in a Standards-Referenced Framework, published in Board
Bulletin Volume 8 Number 9 (Nov/Dec 1999), which is available on the Board s
website at http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/bulletins/index.html. Questions are
closely related to the outcomes of the course, and the papers as a whole are structured
to allow for appropriate differentiation of student performance at all levels on the
performance scale.

The paper has been designed so that students have a clear understanding of what they
are required to do in each question, and in working through the paper. Where key
words such as discuss, analyse, and explain , appear in questions, they have been
used consistently in accordance with the Board s Glossary of Key Words (available
on the Board s website at http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/syllabus_hsc/).

This specimen paper is one example of the type of examination that could be prepared
within the examination specifications in the revised German Beginners syllabus.
Examinations will be based on the syllabus, and will test a representative sample of
syllabus outcomes. Therefore, the range and balance of outcomes tested in HSC
examinations in 2008 and subsequent years may differ from those addressed in the
specimen paper. In subsequent examinations, the style and structure of the questions
may differ from those in this specimen paper. As a suite, the specimen papers for all
the Beginners courses indicate a range of possible variations in terms of structure and
question style.

The mapping grid is an important feature of the development of the examination. It
aids in ensuring that the examination as a whole samples a range of content and
outcomes, and allows the full range students the opportunity to demonstrate their level
of achievement.

Marking guidelines are developed at the same time as the examination questions, and
show the criteria to be applied to the responses to questions, together with the marks
to be awarded in line with the quality of the responses. Where appropriate, a sample
answer is provided. The sample answer is one example of the type of response that
would be sufficient to gain full marks, and is included as an indication of the scope
and depth required. For extended-response questions, performance is described at a
number of levels of performance, each covering a range of marks. Marking guidelines
may require some refinement at the marking centre to take account of unanticipated
responses that students may present. In many cases, the standard described at each
mark range will be made clear during pilot-marking by the selection of sample scripts.

There are a number of points to note in considering the German Beginners specimen
paper:
• The German Beginners specimen paper is one of eight Beginners specimen
papers. The syllabuses share a common structure, and the examination
specifications are essentially the same for all eight syllabuses. The specimen
examinations were developed together as a suite, so that some identical or similar
items appear in a number of the specimen papers. This will not be the case for the
HSC examinations. A number of the items in the papers have been sourced from
recent Beginners HSC examinations, which reflects the similarities between the
revised courses and the courses they replaced.

• The format of the specimen paper follows the new examination specifications.
The examination specifications allow variation in a number of aspects of the
examination, such as the number of listening texts in Section I and the word limits
for the two writing tasks in Section III. The eight Beginners specimen papers, as a
suite, reflect a range of possible examinations. These aspects of HSC examination
papers in 2008 and subsequent years may differ from the sp.

• Rubrics indicating general criteria for judging performance for extended response
questions have been placed at the beginning of Parts A and B of Section III, to
indicate the criteria that will be used to assess responses to the question(s). These
criteria are in addition to criteria specific to each question.

• Sample marking guidelines are included for one short-answer question from each
of Section I Listening and Section II Reading, as well as for the three writing
tasks in Section III. An indication of the range of marking guidelines for short-
answer questions can be gained by considering the sample Section I and Section II
marking guidelines from across the suite of Beginners specimen papers.











Centre Number
Student Number
2008
HIGHER SCHOOL CERTIFICATE
SPECIMEN EXAMINATION
German Beginners
Total marks – 80
Section I Pages 2–6
30 marks
Attempt Questions 1–9
General Instructions This section should take approximately 40 minutes
Reading time – 10 minutes
Section II Pages 9–15
Working time – 2 hours and
30 marks30 minutes
Attempt Questions 10–14Write using black or blue pen
Allow about 1 hour for this sectionMonolingual and/or bilingual
print dictionaries may be used
Section III Pages 17–20
Write your Centre Number and
20 marksStudent Number at the top of
this page and pages 9 and 17 This section has two parts