Balearic Islands PAU Catalan Language and Literature II study guide
Balearic Islands PAU Catalan Language and Literature II · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
Llengua Catalana i Literatura II is the second-year Catalan language and literature subject examined in the Prova d'Accés a la Universitat (PAU) held in the Balearic Islands. It is a university-access examination, not a professional certification: candidates are usually students finishing Batxillerat who need the grade for admission, or candidates improving an earlier PAU mark. The Balearic Islands PAU Catalan Language and Literature II study guide has 6 sections and about 2,552 words.
01Text comprehension and analysis
The first block of the Llengua Catalana i Literatura II paper presents a text of roughly 500–700 words - usually an article d'opinió from the Catalan-language press or a short humanistic essay - followed by four to six questions worth about three points in total. What is measured is precision, not speed: can you state the thesis with your own words, explain a phrase as it functions inside the argument, classify the text and justify the classification with features?
463 words, about 2 min02Written expression and composition
The production task - normally 200–250 words, worth two to three points - asks for an article d'opinió , a carta al director , a short essay or a text argumentatiu on a topic linked to the reading or to a current Balearic issue (tourism, language use, housing, water). Orthographic and grammatical errors are deducted, commonly 0.1 per error up to two points, so correctness can outweigh rhetorical brilliance.
472 words, about 2 min03Grammar, syntax and lexical competence
This block, worth roughly two to two and a half points, tests reflexió lingüística through discrete items: substitute a segment by a pronoun, complete a verb, correct an error, choose between two prepositions, give a synonym or a derivative. The items are short and the marks are cumulative, so systematic accuracy matters more than partial knowledge.
427 words, about 2 min04Literary history and periodization
The history questions ask you to place an author, a work or a movement on a timeline and to justify the placement with two or three features. The syllabus runs from the thirteenth century to the present, with a specific Balearic dimension that examiners like to test.
405 words, about 2 min05Commentary on prescribed literary works
The PAU fixes a short list of compulsory readings for each convocatòria - verify the current list in the official resolution - and the commentary question asks you to analyse a fragment from one of them. The grid below works for any of them; what changes is the content, not the method.
380 words, about 2 min06Literary genres and rhetorical figures
This domain covers the theory of the three genres, Catalan versification and the inventory of rhetorical figures; questions appear as identification items ( digues quina figura hi ha en… , analitza la mètrica d'aquest vers ) and as part of the commentary. Narrator: heterodiegetic or homodiegetic, omniscient or limited, testimonial.
405 words, about 2 min