Korean Beginners 2018 HSC exam pack

Students should:

• engage in regular practice of a variety of vocabulary and sentence structures
• listen to spoken Korean from a variety of sources
• familiarise themselves with the topics outlined in the Korean Beginners syllabus
• practise the subject content studies in the Preliminary and HSC Korean Beginners courses.

In better responses, students were able to:

• engage effectively in conversation by responding to all the questions with a wide range of information, comments and ideas
• speak with clarity of ideas, pronunciation and intonation
• manipulate the language effectively by using a variety of sentence structures and included verbs, descriptive verbs, adverbs, comparatives, and negation to express ideas and opinions across a range of topics
• elaborate on ideas and information by presenting, explaining and justifying opinions and points of view.

Areas for students to improve include:

• responding to the questions the examiner asks rather than presenting pre-prepared responses that may be inappropriate to the questions asked
• using a variety of sentence beginnings when responding to questions
• paying special attention to the use of basic language features and structures such as particles and tense.

Students should:

• ensure they have a good understanding of a wide variety of vocabulary
• read the questions and structure their responses accordingly
• develop responses that provide holistic understanding of texts, not direct translation of the text. 

In better responses, students were able to:

• identify a wide range of vocabulary and expressions from the syllabus topics
• analyse the text and respond to questions demonstrating a holistic understanding of the texts
• support their responses with detailed references to the text.

Areas for students to improve include:

• providing detailed information to support ideas or justify points of view
• avoiding direct translation of parts of texts.

Students should:

• read questions thoroughly and respond appropriately
• respond holistically without relying solely on direct translation
• use the number of lines and the mark value of each question as an indication of required length for each response.

In better responses, students were able to:

• analyse the texts and produce detailed responses relevant to the question
• support their answer with detailed reference to the text.

Areas for students to improve include:

• reading the texts and the questions carefully
• avoiding translation of parts of texts.

Students should:

• address audience, purpose and context correctly
• write using a wide variety of sentence structures and avoid repeating the same sentence structure throughout a text
• write with consistent register and tense
• avoid relying on dictionaries to provide phrases. 

In better responses, students were able to:

• write appropriately for the audience, purpose and context of the task
• provide a number of relevant ideas and support them with appropriate examples
• sequence and structure their responses logically and coherently
• use a variety of vocabulary and sentence structures accurately.

Areas for students to improve include:

• identifying the audience, purpose and context of the task and avoid including irrelevant ideas
• meeting the required word limit
• avoiding repetition of same structures
• paying attention to spelling and conjugation of verbs
• using conjunctions correctly when constructing sentences.