Provincial Examinations

Grade 12 Provincial Examination Specifications

Spanish 12

2009/10 Exam Specifications - Effective September 2009 through August 2010.

Changes and Revisions

• Refer to the 2009/10 General Examination Information regarding booklet format information and general changes to provincial examinations. for important information regarding general changes to provincial examinations.

Specifications

• The Table of Specifications and Description of Examination (PDF, 37KB) show teachers and students how the Spanish 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 (PDF, 27KB) provide sample general response questions and entire thematic response topics for the speaking component.

• Reading Categories (PDF, 49KB) provide a description of each reading category.

• Curriculum Connections links to the prescribed learning outcomes.

• The Scoring Guides (PDF, 84KB) explain how students will be marked on the Written-response questions.

Samples

• Sample and Released Examinations show the format of an examination and the balance of questions across the curriculum organizers.