VCE German study guide
VCE German · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
VCE German is a Victorian Certificate of Education study in the Languages learning area, with Units 1 and 2 accredited from 2019 and Units 3 and 4 from 2020. The study design was updated in January 2020 and sets out the areas of study, outcomes and assessment requirements. It suits secondary students in Victoria who are building competence in German language and culture and who want a sequenced, externally assessed language subject in their senior years. Assessment in Units 3 and 4 combines school-based assessment with two external components: an oral examination and a written examination. Topics on this exam: Oral examination and Written examination. The VCE German study guide has 2 sections and about 778 words.
01VCE German: Mastering the Oral Examination
The VCE German oral examination assesses your ability to sustain spontaneous, accurate and culturally appropriate spoken German across a conversation and a discussion of a detailed study topic. Two concepts dominate: communicative intent (can you express, justify, compare and hypothesise?) and control of grammar and pronunciation (do errors impede meaning?). You must be able to narrate in past tenses, express opinions with subordination, and use modal particles and connectors naturally. Build reliable control of the Perfekt and Präteritum for narration, the Konjunktiv II for hypotheticals and polite requests ( Ich würde sagen… , Wenn ich könnte, würde ich… ), and subordinate clause word order with weil, obwohl, dass, wenn, damit .
409 words, about 2 min02VCE German: The Written Examination
The written examination assesses reading and listening comprehension , text production and language accuracy in German. You must understand authentic-style texts on topics such as environment, migration, technology, health and youth culture, and respond in German and English as directed. The central concepts are gist versus detail comprehension , inference (what the writer implies), text-type conventions (formal letter, article, blog, email, report) and register (Sie versus du, formal versus informal tone). In production tasks, examiners reward cohesion and range .
369 words, about 2 min