VCE Tamil study guide
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VCE Tamil is a Victorian Certificate of Education language study design administered by the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA). It is taken by senior secondary students in Victoria who wish to have Tamil recognised within their VCE program, and it is delivered across Units 1 and 2 and Units 3 and 4. The study design sets out the areas of study, outcomes and assessment requirements, and VCAA publishes a separate assessment handbook covering school-based assessment and examinations, including the examination criteria. VCAA also publishes examination specifications, past examinations and examination reports for Tamil, which are the most reliable guide to what the examination asks and how responses are judged. Topics on this exam: Prescribed concepts and topics (Units 3 and 4 areas of study) and Examination criteria and school-based assessment outcomes (Units 3 and 4). The VCE Tamil study guide has 2 sections and about 808 words.
01Prescribed Concepts and Topics: Units 3 and 4 Areas of Study
The Units 3–4 Tamil course is built around three strands that the exam tests together: communicating in Tamil , understanding language and culture , and making meaning through texts . In practice you must handle the prescribed themes (for example personal identity, family and community, traditions and festivals, education and work, and the Tamil-speaking world) through a range of text types - short stories, poems, newspaper-style articles, letters, dialogues, notices and advertisements.
413 words, about 2 min02Examination Criteria and School-Based Assessment Outcomes: Units 3 and 4
The Units 3–4 assessment has two connected parts: school-based assessment (SACs) and the external examination . School-based tasks in Units 3 and 4 typically cover the three outcomes - communicating information, ideas and opinions in Tamil; analysing and using information from written and spoken texts; and producing original texts for specified purposes and audiences.
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