VCE Hindi case studies
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VCE Hindi is a Victorian Certificate of Education language study assessed by the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA). It suits secondary students in Victoria who already have background knowledge of Hindi and want formal recognition of their listening, speaking, reading and writing skills within their VCE program. The VCE Hindi case studies are 5 cases and about 2,026 words.
1Choosing evidence for the oral: the grandmother's letters
Priya has chosen the topic "migration and family memory" for her VCE Hindi oral. Her evidence is a bundle of eleven letters her grandmother wrote in Hindi between 1972 and 1978 after moving from a village near Varanasi to Delhi.
460 words, about 2 min2Presentation timing when the detail is rich
Arjun's Hindi oral topic is "Hindi cinema and social change". He has prepared a 5-minute presentation with 14 slides of notes, three film clips described verbally, and a conclusion that lists six points.
404 words, about 2 min3Balancing the two texts in the written examination
In the written examination, Section A asks students to write an imaginative piece of 250-300 words in Hindi based on a prompt about returning to a childhood neighbourhood. Section B asks for an evaluative response of 250-300 words on a set topic about technology and young people, drawing on the studied texts.
406 words, about 2 min4Register and audience in the persuasive writing task
The written examination includes a persuasive task: students write a 250-300 word Hindi piece for a school magazine arguing that students should learn a second Indian language. Karan drafts an opening with heavy English loanwords (opportunity, skill set, global platform), several exclamation marks, and direct commands to the reader.
384 words, about 2 min5Using feedback from a recorded rehearsal
Sana records her Hindi oral rehearsal on her phone. Listening back, she notices four things: she says "um" and "actually" frequently; she uses the same sentence pattern (subject-object-verb with a single clause) in almost every sentence; her answers to two detailed-discussion questions lasted only 12 seconds each; and she mispronounced a retroflex consonant consistently, though her teacher had not mentioned it.
372 words, about 2 min