Provincial Examinations

Grade 12 Provincial Examination Specifications

Japanese 12

2007/08 Exam Specifications - Effective September 2007 through August 2008.

Changes and Revisions

Specifications

  • The Table of Specifications and Description of Examination (45 KB) show teachers and students how the Japanese 12 curriculum will be tested on provincial examinations.

    • The Provincial examination represents 40% of the student's final letter grade and the classroom mark represents 60%.

    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 evaluate performance on only a sample of these outcomes.

  • The Listening and Speaking page provides information on how to prepare for, and administer the, electronic components of the exam.

  • General Response Questions and Thematic Response Topics (62 KB) provide sample general response questions and entire thematic response topics for the speaking component.

  • Reading Categories (55 KB) provide a description of each reading category.

  • Curriculum Connections links to the prescribed learning outcomes.

  • The Scoring Guides (56 KB) explain how students will be marked on the speaking and written-response questions.

Samples