Transcript D - VSL - McKinnon SC

STRATEGIES FOR MAXIMIZING
VCE LOTE SCORES
Victorian School of Languages
McKinnon Secondary School– Central 2
Venetia Kefalianos & Diana Hatch
The Victorian School of Languages
• 77 yrs in the business of teaching LOTE
• 45 languages offered by the VSL
• 44 centres
• Country
• City
• At government schools
• And now at Haileybury & John Fawkner
Would you like to assist in maximizing
your VCE student’s TR Score?
During this session I will discuss VCE issues.
• Are you ready for VCE
• VASS- Vass Notification Forms.
• Enrolment issues
• Withdrawing – up until the end of 1st term
• Exams
• GAT – preparing for the GAT
• Absences
• Late to class
• VCE manuals – on line.
• HOMEWORK
• TR scores
• 10% bonus
Scenario 1
• “I want to do
year 12 Swahili
I speak Swahili
at home”.
(VCE is highly
competitive)
Scenario 2
•I am in year 11
and wish to do
Swahili in year
12.
Scenario 3
• We have just arrived from
overseas and I want my gifted
daughter to do Swahili at the
VCE year 12 level - she is in year
8 at her day school.
• (VCE needs maturity)
Scenario 4
• What is the Gat?
• 3 hour IQ test in English
• 2 writing tasks – 30 min.
• 70 multiple choice questions=
1.7 minutes each question
• Question 1
• The point of this cartoon is to suggest that
women and men
• A are able to ignore each other.
• B are able to work co-operatively.
• C both support and are themselves supported.
• D both manipulate and are themselves
manipulated.
1 The joke of the cartoon is that the speaker is
A trying to be a good parent.
B disguising laziness as concern.
C more interested in educative theories than in his
child.
D more interested in his child than in educative
theories.
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UNIT 5
Questions 10 – 12
The following are four different translations (A–D) of a haiku poem by the Japanese poet Basho.
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Along this road
goes no one;
this autumn evening.
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Not one traveller
braves this road –
autumn night.
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By lonely roads
this lonely poet marches
into autumn dusk.
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All along this road
not a single soul – only
autumn evening comes.
10 Which of the translations gives the most emotional interpretation?
ABCD
11 Which of the translations seems to make autumn a presence?
ABCD
12 Which of the translations contrasts most with the others?
ABCD
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Questions 29 – 33
Jane, who works at the city council, has made a flow chart for a computer program to help
determine the number of car parking spaces (P) required for different types of takeaway
outlet.
The number of spaces required for an outlet depends on the number of indoor seats (J) and the
number of outdoor seats (E), as well as the gross floor area (GFA, in m2). To help her
calculate P,
she has introduced the intermediate variables V, W, X, Y and Z.
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X = GFA
100 ×12
W = Y5
V = Y3
P=X
P=X+W
P=X+ZP=X+V
Z = J2
Y=J+E
Seating?
Drivethrough?
Is W >Z ?
Is V >Z ?
Value of P: (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (v)
Which of the following best describes the facilities at a takeaway
outlet described by path
(ii) in the flow chart?
A seating with no drive-through
B seating with a drive-through
C no seating and a drive-through
D no seating, no drive-through
30 Which of the following is equal to V ?
A one-third of the number of indoor seats
B one-half of the number of indoor seats
C one-third of the total number of indoor and outdoor seats
D one-fifth of the total number of indoor and outdoor seats
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Questions 67 – 70
The image of the Australian outback on the next page was painted by Russell Drysdale.
Pamela Bell described the painting in the following terms:
Man Reading a Paper is one of the most surreal of Drysdale’s paintings of the early
1940s. For the first time, Drysdale incorporated pieces of corrugated iron and a
windmill, motifs which at times appear abstract. A sense of ambiguity is heightened by
the suggestion of actions taking place in an internal rather than external environment.
Instead of sitting in a lounge chair reading a paper, the male figure rests on a tree
stump, with his jacket hung on the nearest branch. The subject’s indifference to the
strange scene around him only heightens the viewer’s feeling of unease.
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Bell sees the painting as
A eerie.
B tragic.
C tranquil.
D celebratory.
The seated figure in the painting seems
A at home in the landscape.
B a victim of the landscape.
C alienated from the landscape.
D the destroyer of the landscape.
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Measuring Volume
Spoon
1/4 teaspoon = 1.25 mL
1 tablespoon = 20 mL
• Questions 2–4
• Monica has only two kitchen measuring spoons. These are described in the box above.
• Question 2
According to a recipe, Monica needs to measure out exactly 4.0 mL of vanilla essence into a bowl.
How many times will she need to fill the 1/4 teaspoon and empty it into the bowl?
• A twice
• B three times
• C four times
• D She cannot measure 4.0 mL this way.
• Question 3
• For a recipe, Monica needs to measure 30 mL. She could do this using 1 tablespoon and
• A 2 × 1/4 teaspoons.
• B 4 × 1/4 teaspoons.
• C 8 × 1/ 4 teaspoons
• D 16 × 1/4 teaspoons.
“Struck from behind, all right …
and from my first
examination of the wound, I’d say
this was done by some
kind of heavy, blunt object.”
The joke in this cartoon is that
the detective is
A jumping to a conclusion.
B overlooking the obvious.
C oversimplifying the situation.
D making an unwarranted
assumption.
• Question 15
The cartoon suggests that when his wife is away this husband
• A spends little time at home.
• B spends a lot of time drinking.
• C accumulates a lot of household rubbish.
• D takes over the management of the household.
Question 16
The material in this unit suggests all of the following about the historical
period except one. Which one?
• A Men were not expected to cook.
• B People without work were ridiculed.
• C Efficiency and economy were valued.
• D Women were in charge of house-work and cooking.
Scenarios
•My daughter only
got 43 for Swahili
what should I do?
Scenarios
•I only scored 36 for
Swahili why did I not
get a higher score, what
can I do?
Scenarios
•Can I repeat?
• Will lose marks?
can do VCE over 3 years
Scenarios
•Can I have my exam
remarked, I am
unhappy with my
results?
Scenarios
•There has been an
injustice made: My son
was top of his class in
Swahili and he only
received 37.
Scenario
•I am an overseas full
paying Swahili student
and my Swahili is
great I wish to do VCE
Swahili.
What type of student succeeds?
•Serious about study
•Serious about attendance
•Committed