WACE Korean Background Language ATAR study guide
WACE Korean Background Language ATAR · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The WACE Korean: Background Language ATAR is a Western Australian senior-secondary course and external examination intended for students who already use Korean in everyday life, typically through family or community background rather than through classroom study as a foreign language. It rewards genuine fluency while testing the academic skills built during the course: understanding spoken and written Korean in a range of registers, responding accurately and appropriately, and producing well-organised Korean for real purposes. The WACE Korean Background Language ATAR study guide has 4 sections and about 1,448 words.
01듣기와 응답: Listening and Responding
The listening section of the WACE Korean Background Language examination asks you to understand spoken Korean drawn from authentic-style contexts - conversations, announcements, interviews, short talks - and to respond in Korean or English depending on the task. You are assessed on comprehension of main ideas, specific detail, inference, and the speaker's attitude or purpose.
376 words, about 2 min02읽기와 응답: Reading and Responding
The reading section presents Korean texts - articles, notices, letters, blog posts, advertisements, literary extracts - and asks you to extract main ideas, locate detail, infer meaning from context, and identify the writer's purpose or tone. Texts range from everyday transactional language to short opinion pieces.
371 words, about 2 min03쓰기: Writing
The writing section requires produced Korean in response to a prompt - often a short transactional text (email, notice, message) and a longer piece such as an opinion, a personal recount, or a description. You are assessed on task fulfilment, content and ideas, range and accuracy of grammar and vocabulary, and text organisation.
355 words, about 2 min04구술 시험: Oral Examination (Discussion and Conversation)
The oral examination has two parts: a discussion based on an in-depth study you have prepared, and a general conversation on topics drawn from the syllabus - personal life, school, society, culture, and issues affecting young people. You are assessed on communication, content and ideas, range and accuracy of language, and your ability to sustain and develop interaction.
346 words, about 2 min