Marking guidelines for oral exams

Specific assessment criteria and marking guidelines apply to oral exams for Beginners languages. Find out how Chinese, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Modern Greek and Spanish are assessed.

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Outcomes assessed

H1.1 establishes and maintains communication in [Language].
H1.2 manipulates linguistic structures to express ideas effectively in [Language].
H1.3 sequences ideas and information.

Marking guidelines

Criteria	Marks
converses effectively by exchanging relevant information, opinions and comment uses appropriate languages features to enhance communication, such as intonation demonstrates an excellent control of a variety of vocabulary and language structures	17–20
converses using relevant information and opinions uses appropriate languages features to enhance communication, such as intonation, in most instances demonstrates a sound knowledge of vocabulary and language structures	13–16
expresses relevant information and opinions in response to questions demonstrates some knowledge of vocabulary and language structures	9–12
responds to simple questions, using single words and some formulaic expressions demonstrates a basic knowledge of vocabulary and language structures	5–8
achieves minimal communication through the use of single words and formulaic expressions	1–4

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