BOS 46/10

Teachers of Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese and Korean are advised that the Heritage Languages HSC examination specifications on pages 7 to 9 of the Assessment and Reporting in CCAFL Heritage Languages Stage 6 courses – Chinese (Mandarin), Indonesian, Japanese and Korean have been amended. Following the input of a wide range of expert assessors, amendments have been made to reduce the length of written texts in Section 1: Responding to texts and of required responses in both Sections 1 and 2. The balance of marks has been adjusted slightly in accordance with these changes.

The amendments are summarised as follows:

• the written examination will now be worth 75 marks and the oral examination will be worth 25 marks
• Section 1: Responding to texts will now be worth 50 marks
• the total lengths of the written texts in Section 1: Responding to texts have been reduced
• the length of responses in [Language] in Section 1: Responding to texts have been reduced
• the length of the response in Section 2: Creating texts has been reduced.

Please refer to the Assessment and Reporting document for each course which has been updated on the Board’s website to include these amendments.

Effective
2012 HSC examination

Dr Margaret Silink
Inspector, Languages
(02) 9367 8152
margaret.silink@bos.nsw.edu.au

Helen Bristow
Manager, Test Development
(02) 9367 8095
helen.bristow@bos.nsw.edu.au