French

Assessment

This course is assessed by exams at the end of Year 13. Paper 1, Listening, Reading, and Translation makes up 40% of the total qualification and comprises reading, listening, and translation into English section. The number of available marks for paper 1 is 64 and it will be 1 hour and 45 minutes long. Paper 2, Written Response to Works and Translation makes up 30% of the total qualification, it is worth 60 marks and is 1 hour 40 minutes long; this paper is split into 2 sections; Section A – Translation and Section B – Written response to works (Literary texts) OR Section C – Written response to works (Films). The final component, Paper 3 – Speaking is an internally conducted and externally assessed piece of work worth 72 marks and 30% of the overall grade.