Spanish

Assessment

Unit 1: The written examination involves some listening, and reading exercises as well as summary and translation tasks for the writing and amounts to 50% of the A-level mark. Examination time: 2 hours and 30 minutes (40 % of the mark and 2 hours in Italian). Unit 2: includes two essay-writing tasks ( about 350 words each ) on the two works studied in class and amounts to 20% of the A-level mark. Examination time: 2 hours (30% of the mark and 2 hours and 40 minutes in Italian). Unit 3: includes a prepared transaction card based on one aspect of the language topic work and an Individual Research Project which can be based on topic work or a text from the prescribed which has not been taught in class. This unit amounts to 30% of the A-level mark. Examination time is 21-23 minutes including the preparation time.(The length of the examination is the same in Italian but the prepared transaction card is replaced by the discussion of a topic from the Unit 1 language test)