Mid+Year+Exams

You will be sitting exams next week for unfamiliar texts and written texts. Your unfamiliar text exam is on Tuesday 31 May (period 3) and your written text exam (writing about __'NIGHT__' by Elie Wiesel) is on Wednesday 1 June (period 4).

Refer to the 'Written text - the nuts and bolts of writing for the exam' and 'Written text - the memoir 'Night' by Elie Wiesel' pages for information on answering an essay question on written text. We have been and will continue to look at aspects of unfamiliar text in class.

Additionally, here are links to NZQA which will take you to the page of each standard. Here you will find old exam papers from past years (and lots of questions to practise with) and exemplar answers at N,A,M and E.

Written text:

http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/ncea/assessment/view-detailed.do?standardNumber=90849

Unfamiliar text:

http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/ncea/assessment/view-detailed.do?standardNumber=90851

You could also look at STUDYIT (www.studyit.org.nz) for direction on answering these questions.

Written text (although this is not aligned to the new standards this year, the extended text old standard will still help you):

http://www.studyit.org.nz/subjects/english/english1/3/

Unfamiliar text (this is also a little out of date. There is no longer any visual text in the question, just written - prose and poetry):

http://www.studyit.org.nz/subjects/english/english1/6/subjectcontent/written-text.html