English as a Second Language
Component
About ARC
This site contains student responses to past examination questions and tasks. The standards described in the performance bands and applied in the marking process do not change from year to year. The responses provide examples of standards of performance at the band cut-offs.
Student responses of the day
Question 1:
Band 5/6 response Allan Baillie, The China Coin
Question 1:
Band 5/6 response
Question 3:
Exemplary response
Question 2:
Band 5/6 response Carmel Bird (ed.), The Stolen Children – Their Stories; Brian Clark, Whose Life is it Anyway?
Question 2:
Band 5/6 response Peter Skrzynecki, Immigrant Chronicle; Willy Russell, Educating Rita