As you know, year 6 students are taking a set of official exams in May. The Generalitat tries to evaluate the competences' level of Catalan, Spanish, English and maths of kids who are going to finish primary education in June.
For that reason, last week and today I've been practising some reading comprehension with children. My school tutor gave me the last year exam so I made photocopies of the two texts and the corresponding questions. Last week we read the text together and I helped the kids to choose the best answer (the exam is a kind of multi answer quiz). Today I have let the students be more self-efficient and they have taken the exam on their own.
During the next class, I have corrected the exam so I have had the opportunity of checking how high the marks are. Most of the kids have passed the test but some of them with a low score. I have calculated the arithmetic mean of all the marks and I have obtained a 6 (last year the arithmetic mean of the whole exam in Catalunya was a 7,4). I think that kids should work more on their reading comprehension because it's a very important part of a language learning process so I hope they keep practising when I leave. Next week we are going to take some oral comprehension exams so I hope they get better results.
If you want to see the 2011-2012 English test click here
If you want to hear the listening comprehension audio click here
No hay comentarios:
Publicar un comentario