Moldova Bacalaureat Gagauz Language and Literature case studies
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The Moldova Bacalaureat in Gagauz Language and Literature (Limba și literatura găgăuză) is the national upper-secondary school-leaving examination taken in Gagauz, one of Moldova's official minority languages, written in the Latin-based Gagauz alphabet. It is intended for lyceum students who have studied Gagauz language and literature as a school subject and who choose it as one of their baccalaureate examination disciplines; results feed into the national baccalaureate diploma used for university admission and for some public-sector and teaching pathways. The Moldova Bacalaureat Gagauz Language and Literature case studies are 5 cases and about 3,374 words.
1Scoring inference items on an informational Gagauz passage
A mock Bacalaureat paper in Gagauz carries a 180-word informational passage about the falling number of weekly Gagauz lessons in village schools. Item 1 asks candidates to locate the author's stated reason for the fall.
724 words, about 4 min2Diagnosing harmony and assimilation errors in a case-suffix drill
Eight-item word-formation drill from a Gagauz grammar workbook. Candidates must put each stem into the case or number shown in brackets: ev (locative), kitap (ablative), sokak (locative), göz (ablative), yol (dative), dil (plural), süt (ablative), okul (locative).
664 words, about 3 min3Moderating a punctuation and cohesion deduction
A 62-word paragraph from a Year-12 Gagauz practice paper is being marked for syntax, punctuation and cohesion. The candidate opens with a single sentence of 31 words that chains four clauses with the conjunction 'da' and contains no comma.
701 words, about 4 min4Dating an unattributed Gagauz text: admissible and inadmissible evidence
A candidate must place an unattributed Gagauz prose text in the prescribed periodization and gives three reasons: the text is printed in Cyrillic letters, it contains the loanword 'kolhoz', and its sentences are long. The anthology the text comes from states in its preface that older texts have been repunctuated and respelled to current conventions, and that it prints works 'from the first printed Gagauz books to the present'.
645 words, about 3 min5Settling marks on two argumentative essays about authorial intention
Two scripts answer the same 250–300 word argumentative prompt: 'A poem means what its reader finds in it, not what its author intended. Argue.' The paper is marked out of 30: thesis and reasoning 10, textual evidence 8, organisation 6, language accuracy 6.
640 words, about 3 min