Korean Continuers 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 Continuers syllabus that are linked to their personal world
• learn a variety of vocabulary and sentence structures appropriate for reflection, comparison and justification
• practise the subject content studies in the Preliminary and HSC Korean Continuers courses.

In better responses, students were able to:

• engage effectively in conversation by responding to all the questions with a wide range of appropriate responses
• speak with fluency and clarity of ideas, and pronunciation and intonation
• manipulate the language effectively by using a variety of sentence structures, embedded clauses, connectives and conjunctions to reflect on aspects of past, present and future
• elaborate on ideas and information by presenting, explaining and justifying opinions and points of view.

Areas for students to improve include:

• manipulating language by using a variety of sentence structures and tenses when reflecting on ideas and events
• responding appropriately to the questions asked rather than presenting memorised segments of language or familiar pre-prepared responses
• substantiating ideas and information with a variety of appropriate examples.

Students should:

• familiarise themselves with a range of vocabulary and sentence structures from the various topics studied in class
• read the questions carefully to determine the specific requirements for each question.

In better responses, students were able to:

• demonstrate clear understanding of the main ideas as well as specific information in texts
• support their responses with detailed reference to the text
• determine the purpose and the audience of texts and respond to questions correctly
• analyse ideas and information and respond to questions using their own words rather than provide mere translations of segments of text.

Areas for students to improve include:

• demonstrating a more holistic understanding of texts that is beyond the literal understanding, and using this understanding to respond to questions appropriately and correctly
• paying special attention to the requirements of every question
• avoiding translating parts of texts
• including specific reference to content and language in questions that require it.

Students should:

• read the texts and the questions carefully and locate the key ideas and the general gist of each text
• identify the specific requirements of every question
• use the number of lines and the mark value of each question as an indication of the depth required for each question.

In better responses, students were able to:

• integrate specific details in their answer
• identify and purpose and the audience in texts
• refer to both content and language and give specific examples to respond to questions perceptively
• justify their responses with examples from the texts.

Areas for students to improve include:

• paying special attention to the requirement of every question
• avoiding translation of parts of texts and using the translation as the answer.

Students should:

• address all cues in detail - those explicitly stated as well as those implied
• analyse content of texts carefully and engage with the text in a more meaningful way
• use their dictionary effectively
• use a variety of language structures, expressions and authentic vocabulary
• organise ideas in paragraphs to produce coherent texts
• revise the correct use of past tenses, present subjunctive, conditional mood, future tense and hypothetical constructions
• read the text carefully and identify the main ideas and information that should be used in answering the question
• read the question carefully paying special attention to its specific requirements
• write with the text type required and word limit specified.

In better responses, students were able to:

• demonstrate an excellent ability to understand all ideas and information in the text by writing a response that is reflective of these ideas
• demonstrate an excellent ability to organise and structure ideas and information logically and coherently
• use their own words in responding to the various ideas in the text, with a range of vocabulary and a variety of sentence structures.

Areas for students to improve include:

• expressing ideas derived from the information in the text rather than from general knowledge
• elaborate their responses within the clues given in the text
• organise their ideas in a logical manner appropriate to the text type and its language conventions.

Students should:

• write a whole text with special attention to ideas, language and structure
• write ideas and opinions with depth and support their ideas with a variety of examples
• use a variety of vocabulary and sentence structures to express ideas and information.

In better responses, students were able to:

• write appropriately for the audience, purpose and context of the task
• include a variety of ideas and information appropriate to the requirement of the task
• expand their ideas and support them with excellent appropriate and logical ideas
• sequence and structure their responses using appropriate language conventions, correct grammatical structures and a range of vocabulary and sentence structures.

Areas for students to improve include:

• including a variety of ideas in their responses
• paying special attention to spelling and grammar
• writing for the purpose and audience specified in the question
• adhering to the word limit specified in the question.