WRITING TEST #1 (Spring Quarter)

last modified: 4/20/10

Test (pdf)Scoring Guide (pdf) Resource use policy (on-line translators, dictionaries, etc.)

A note about language tests and "cumulative:" In your native language, you keep using words and structures you may have learned years ago (if you even remember when you learned them). In the same way, the language you are learning now is being acquired cumulatively and therefore will be tested cumulatively. That is, a later test may call on knowledge and skills you acquired earlier in the course. If you have continuing weaknesses in earlier material, that will affect your performance and thus your grade on later tests. If you revise your earlier tests, that will improve not only your grades on the earlier tests, but probably also your performance on later tests. Still, each test will emphasize recent material, and to get a 5 or 6 on the test you will have to have good (not necessarily perfect!) command of that material.

Work samples: a test that scored 3.2/C+ (0490); a test that scored 5.8/A+ (0492)