Korean and Literature 2017 HSC exam pack (archive)

Students should:

• use the Candidates’ Notes column to make notes and ensure all relevant information is incorporated into the final response
• demonstrate a clear understanding of context, purpose and audience in their responses
• infer points of view, opinion and attitudes from texts
• recognise, analyse and evaluate the effectiveness of a variety of features in texts
• demonstrate control of a range of language structures and vocabulary in Korean
• respond within the word limit indicated in the question.

Students should expect:

• a variety of aural texts and question types with varying difficulty
• questions that require responses that are beyond a literal translation
• questions that require students to analyse, explain, justify, infer and draw conclusions
• questions that require students to compare and contrast aspects of texts
• to use textual cues and their understanding of text structure to interpret meaning
• to apply knowledge of linguistic and stylistic features to infer meaning in texts
• to express a point of view when responding to texts
• to adapt linguistic features to reflect on, persuade, convince or discuss when responding to texts.

Students can prepare for this examination by:

• familiarising themselves with the themes and issues in the syllabus
• practising past HSC examination papers within a time limit
• engaging with a variety of texts that relate to syllabus topics, issues, perspectives, prescribed themes and issues
• studying the prescribed texts very well
• practising writing different text types
• learning expressions that show knowledge of cause and effect
• practising the use of various sentence structures and vocabulary in expressing opinion, justifying points of view and/or drawing conclusions.

In better responses, students were able to:

• summarise and/or synthesise information and ideas
• demonstrate a perceptive understanding of the main ideas and the specific details in aural texts
• present ideas and information for a particular purpose, context and audience
• synthesise ideas and information in a text to justify views and opinions
• explain how language techniques are used in the text to convey meaning
• provide ample examples from text to support their responses.

In the better responses, students were able to:

• use a variety of relevant ideas to convey meaning
• explain thoroughly what certain features/expressions meant in a text
• make excellent and detailed reference to the film, short story and poem
• infer points of view, values, attitudes and emotions from texts
• demonstrate a perceptive understanding of the message of a text (Q3)
• use a variety of textual references in their responses
• compare how the director of a film and author of a short story express a particular issue (Q4)
• respond to texts perceptively by creating a text with a specific purpose, audience and context (Q5).

In better responses, students were able to:

• use a variety of relevant ideas to express/discuss opinions
• elaborate on ideas and supported them with a variety of examples
• structure their responses in a coherent manner by sequencing ideas and information logically
• use a variety of language structures and vocabulary creatively
• use descriptive and persuasive language by manipulating sentence structures and expressions and using a variety of vocabulary
• demonstrate excellent control of language structures, grammar and spelling.