Provincial Examinations

Grade 12 Provincial Examination Specifications

BC First Nations Studies 12

2008/09 Exam Specifications - Effective September 2008 through August 2009.

Changes and Revisions

Specifications

  • The Table of Specifications and Description of Examination [48KB pdf] show teachers and students how the BC First Nations Studies 12 curriculum will be tested on provincial examinations.

    • The provincial examination represents 20% of the students final letter grade and the classroom mark represents 80%.

    There may be a difference between school marks and provincial examination marks for individual students. Some students perform better on classroom tests and others on provincial examinations. School assessment measures performance on all curricular outcomes, whereas provincial examinations may only evaluate performance on a sample of these outcomes.

  • Cognitive Levels provide a description of what each cognitive level means.
  • Curriculum Connections provide a link to the examinable Prescribed Learning Outcomes (PLOs) as described in the BC First Nations Studies 12 IRP, 2006.
  • A Key Terms, Names and Events List [36KB pdf] provides some common BC First Nations terms, names and events that may be examined on the Provincial BC First Nations Studies 12 examinations.
  • A Key Verb List [103KB pdf] is provided to help students effectively read, analyze and respond to essay questions.
  • The Scoring Criteria [34KB pdf] explains how students will be marked on the Essay Question.
  • Ce lexique [52KB pdf] bilingue contient des termes qui pourraient apparaître dans les examens, notamment ceux dont la version française diffère sensiblement de la version anglaise et qui ne feraient pas partie du vocabulaire de base des élèves.

Samples

Older exams posted on our website are for reference only and are not necessarily representative of the exams for the 2008/09 school year.