Beginners Japanese Tips and Hints: Examination Guidelines

1.4.1 Listening

There will be approximately 10 questions.
Each question will be based on an aural text in Japanese
Each text will be read twice. There will be a pause between the readings and a longerpause after the second reading to allow candidates to answer the question.
The total time for one reading of all the texts will be approximately 8 minutes.
The texts will include a range of text types.
There will be a range of question types such as short-answer questions including thosewhich may require the completion of a table, list or form, and objective response questions.
Questions may contain parts.
Questions/parts will be phrased in English for a response in English.
There will be no more than 13 items in total.
There will be at least one item worth 5 marks.

This section will consist of two parts.

Part A

There will be two short-answer questions, worth 4 marks and 6 marks, phrased in English requiring a response in Japanese

Questions will specify the audience, purpose and context of the response.
Questions may include stimulus material in Japanese.
The total expected length of the two responses will be approximately:250 ji in Japanese

Part B

There will two questions phrased in English and Japanese requiring a response in Japanese.

Candidates will be required to answer one question.
Each question will specify the audience, purpose and context of the response, and will require the same text type.
The expected length of the response will be approximately: 250 ji in Japanese.

In your answers you will be assessed on how well you:

demonstrate the relevance of information and ideas
write text appropriate to context, purpose and audience
structure and sequence information and ideas
demonstrate control of a range of language structures and vocabulary in Japanese

Beginners Japanese Tips and Hints