SACE Stage 2 Korean (beginners) cheat sheet

School assessment in Stage 2 Korean (Beginners) is divided into two components: Assessment Type 1 (Interaction) and Assessment Type 2 (Text Production), each contributing to the school-assessed portion of the grade.

Assessment Type 1: Interaction is assessed through spoken and written interaction tasks in Korean, with students responding to prompts and sustaining exchanges in the target language.

Assessment Type 2: Text Production requires students to produce written and/or multimodal texts in Korean for specified audiences and purposes.

School assessment counts for 70% of the final subject grade; the external assessment counts for the remaining 30%.

For beginners-level Korean, Romanisation is not accepted as a substitute for Hangul in submitted work; accurate Hangul orthography is required.

Performance standards describe five levels of achievement (A to E); grades are awarded holistically against the standards, not by percentage cut-offs.

Spacing (띄어쓰기) errors and incorrect honorific verb endings are treated as accuracy issues under the language resources criterion.

Plagiarism and unauthorised use of translation tools are managed under SACE's rules on authenticity; drafts and planning evidence may be required.

Feedback on drafts is permitted but must not involve correcting or rewriting the student's Korean text for them.

The external assessment is a written examination worth 30% of the final subject grade and is set and marked by the SACE Board.

The examination assesses listening, reading, and writing in Korean, with responses in English and in Korean depending on the task.

Externally assessed tasks are drawn from the three prescribed themes and their topics, with texts in Korean at beginners level.

Students must demonstrate intercultural understanding by comparing Korean-speaking communities with their own culture in extended responses.

Dictionary use is not permitted in the external examination; vocabulary must be recalled from the course.

Answers in Korean are marked for both communication of meaning and accuracy of language (grammar, vocabulary, and Hangul spelling).

Listening texts are played a limited number of times as specified in the examination instructions; notes may be taken during playback.

The examination includes an extended writing task in Korean of approximately 200–300 words (or equivalent) requiring a specified text type such as a letter, diary entry, or blog post.