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Language Extension – HSC examination rubrics
Arabic • Chinese • French • German • Indonesian • Italian • Japanese • Modern Greek • Spanish

Section I — Response to prescribed text

Part A

In your answers you will be assessed on how well you:

  • respond critically to the prescribed text
  • analyse how meaning is conveyed
  • demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the prescribed text and prescribed issues
  • communicate information and ideas in comprehensible English

Part B

In your answer you will be assessed on how well you:

  • write from a particular perspective in a specified context
  • demonstrate an understanding of the prescribed text
  • communicate information and ideas clearly and accurately in [Language]

Section II — Writing in [Language]

In your answer you will be assessed on how well you:

  • present and explain or justify a point of view
  • write text appropriate to context and/or purpose and/or audience
  • structure and sequence information, opinions and ideas
  • demonstrate control of a range of language structures and vocabulary in [Language]
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