QCAA Sinhala (SEE) case studies
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The Senior External Examination (SEE) in Sinhala is a Queensland Curriculum & Assessment Authority (QCAA) program of individual subject examinations offered to eligible Year 12 students and adult learners. It is designed for students in their final year of senior secondary schooling who cannot access certain subjects at their school because of timetable clashes or subject availability, and for adult students who are 17 years or older (or students under 17 who are eligible) seeking credit towards a QCE, tertiary entrance or employment requirements, or personal interest. The QCAA Sinhala (SEE) case studies are 5 cases and about 1,888 words.
1Register choice in a bilingual notice to parents
A Colombo school with a mixed parent body drafts a notice about a changed school pickup time. The principal wants one Sinhala version for all parents.
437 words, about 2 min2Honorific address in a letter to an elder relative
A student must write a Sinhala letter to an elderly aunt thanking her for helping with exam fees. The student's first draft opens with a casual greeting and uses the ordinary second-person pronoun throughout, then closes with a brief sign-off.
392 words, about 2 min3Translating a public health instruction into Sinhala
A clinic asks you to render a short English instruction into Sinhala for a waiting-room poster. The English reads: 'Take one tablet with food twice a day.
359 words, about 2 min4Editing a school magazine article for consistency
You are editing a Sinhala school magazine. A student's article about a sports day mixes past and present tense within paragraphs, alternates between two spellings of the same place name, and uses a casual spoken form in the middle of otherwise formal narration.
361 words, about 2 min5Choosing script and spelling for a community newsletter
A community group produces a monthly Sinhala newsletter. A new contributor submits an article using a non-standard transliteration of several English loanwords, a mixture of conjunct consonant forms and separated forms for the same sound, and punctuation modelled on English (commas and full stops used where Sinhala practice would differ).
339 words, about 2 min