NESA Official Notice: Amendments to Stage 6 Languages Extension exam rubrics

Minor amendments have been made to the exam rubrics for Stage 6 Languages Extension: Section II – Writing in the following courses:

• - Arabic
• - Chinese
• - French
• - German
• - Indonesian
• - Italian
• - Japanese
• - Modern Greek
• - Spanish.

 
The following amendments to the rubrics will be effective for 2017 HSC exams:

• - ‘present and explain or justify a point of view’ has been changed to ‘present and justify a point of view’ to improve clarity
• - ‘write text appropriate to context and/or purpose and/or audience’ has been changed to ‘write text appropriate to audience, purpose and context’ to more closely align with the intention and wording of the exam specifications.

 
​The revised exam rubrics can be downloaded from the HSC syllabus page for each of the Stage 6 Languages Extension courses. 
 
For more information, contact:
Tracey McIntosh 
Manager, Examining and Testing 
tracey.mcintosh@nesa.nsw.edu.au
(02) 9367 8233