English-Literacy Test Scope Statement and Test Specifications from 2006
In broad terms, the test measures students’ ability to
use language with an awareness of purpose, context and audience.
This is measured in the areas of Reading, Writing and Viewing,
within a range of contexts that offer various types of texts. These
texts are selected from the contexts of everyday communication
(including factual and non-literary texts), literature and media
(including multimedia). Questions are drawn from the following:
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Reading: Students are required to respond to a range of texts at the literal, inferential, analytical and interpretive levels.
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Viewing: Students are required to respond to a range of printed visual stimuli, for example illustrations, photographs, graphs and webpages at the literal, inferential, analytical and interpretive levels.
- Writing: Students are required to read or view texts and respond to them in writing.
Test Specifications
The English-literacy test will be of two hours duration plus 10 minutes reading time. It will consist of two sections. All questions are compulsory. When stimulus material is used, one or more questions may draw on that material.
Section 1 (60 marks)
45 questions in objective-response format.
Short-response format questions worth 15 marks.
All answers to this section must be recorded on the answer sheet
provided.
Section 2 (30 marks)
There will be TWO writing tasks worth a total of 30 marks.
There will be one task worth 10 marks requiring a written response. Students will be awarded marks for their ability to demonstrate knowledge and control of form, language, spelling, and grammar conventions appropriate to the task.
There will be one task worth 20 marks requiring an extended written response. Students will be awarded marks for their ability to demonstrate development of ideas and sustained control of form and expression appropriate to the task.
All answers to this section must be written in the spaces provided.
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View the 2006 School Certificate English-literacy Specimen Test (including Mapping Grid) Acrobat PDF file (1.18MB) |