Russian

Assessment

There are three exams at A level, all testing your competency on the topics learned. Paper 1 (Listening Reading and Translation ) test your comprehension, your ability to respond to a variety of texts and to translate an unseen passage into English in a 2-hour exam worth 40% of the A level. Paper 2 (Written response and translation) examines you in Russian on ‘The Queen of Spades’ and a second text (or film ) that you will have studied, as well as translate an unseen passage into Russian, in a 2 hour 40 minute exam worth 30% of the A level. Paper 3 (Speaking) is an oral exam consisting of a thematic discussion, plus a presentation and further discussion on independent research, in a 21-23-minute exam worth 30% of the A level.