SACE Stage 2 Romanian (continuers) cheat sheet

School assessment in Stage 2 languages is typically split between an oral/interactive component and a written folio of responses to texts; each contributes a fixed percentage to the final grade and is graded by the school against SACE performance standards.

Assessment tasks must be based on the five SACE capabilities and on the language-specific performance standards: understanding, analysis, and creation of meaning in Romanian, plus knowledge of language and culture.

A common school-assessment structure is: an oral presentation or discussion (about 20% of the subject grade) and a written folio of text responses (about 30%), with the remaining 50% from external assessment; verify the exact weightings in the current subject outline.

Folio tasks require students to respond to a range of Romanian texts (written, spoken, or multimodal) and to demonstrate comprehension, interpretation, and critical analysis rather than summary alone.

Text types set for production include article, blog, email, letter, report, review, speech, and narrative; task designations specify audience, purpose, and register, and these must be reflected in the response.

Oral tasks are assessed on both fluency and accuracy: range of vocabulary and grammar, pronunciation and intonation, cohesion, and the ability to sustain interaction or argument in Romanian.

School-assessed work is subject to moderation; schools retain annotated student work, task sheets, and assessment records, and marks may be adjusted to align with the SACE performance standards.

Plagiarism and use of translation tools without acknowledgement are treated as breaches of assessment integrity; drafting is permitted only within the parameters stated in the task sheet.

External assessment for Stage 2 languages typically comprises a written examination worth about 50% of the subject grade, with sections for listening/comprehension, reading/analysis, and written production in Romanian.

The written exam is usually divided into a comprehension section (responses to written and spoken Romanian texts) and a production section (extended writing in a specified text type for a specified audience and purpose).

Texts in the examination are authentic or adapted Romanian materials; questions test literal comprehension, inference, and analysis of purpose, tone, and cultural context, not just translation.

Written production is assessed against criteria including relevance and depth, organisation and cohesion, range and accuracy of language, and appropriateness to audience and register.

Listening material is played a limited number of times (commonly twice); students take notes during playback and answer in Romanian or English as the question specifies.

Dictionaries are generally not permitted in the external examination; students must rely on contextual inference for unfamiliar vocabulary.

The oral examination component, where applicable, is externally assessed or externally moderated and typically involves a conversation or discussion with an assessor on prepared topics and on the student's investigation.

Externally assessed work is marked by trained assessors against the SACE performance standards, and results are reported on an A+ to E grade scale.