Question 1
Candidates are required to list 8 items in German. Read all of the items that the candidate has listed and award marks as follows:
(i) Select the most correct items up to a maximum of 5. Award 1 mark for each correct item up to a maximum of 5. Stop ticking once 5
items have been rewarded.
(ii) On Question 1, award marks for items wherever the candidate has written them.
(iii) If the candidate offers more than one word per line, award a mark for each acceptable item.
(iv) The pictures provided on the question paper are only suggestions.
(v) Mark for communication. Tolerate inaccuracies, provided the message is clear. Ignore any definite / indefinite article, possessive adjective, etc.
Ignore any verbs.
(vi) If spelling is questionable, start by referring to the detailed mark scheme. Refer to the bullet points below if no decision on the spelling you have
encountered is recorded there.
• ‘If in doubt, sound it out’: if you read what the candidate has written, does it sound like the correct answer?
• Look-alike test: does what the candidate has written look like the correct answer, e.g. one letter missing but no other word created.
• If the first part of the word is correct, small errors in what comes next are less likely to impede communication (unless they suggest another
meaning).
• Where letters are transposed, the word is likely to communicate (unless another word has been created).
(vii) Once marking proper starts, if there are five clearly acceptable items, award marks wherever these are in the list. This approach may allow
questionable versions to be ignored.
(viii) Refuse all nouns which are repeated and which do not have a separate meaning:
• Hose, kurze Hose: award one mark to each item
• Kleine Hose, blaue Hose: award one mark for the first Hose
(ix) Reject misspelt words which suggest a word with a quite different meaning. Where nouns are usually plural, accept the singular and vice versa
Sie sind in der Schule. Was lernen Sie? Machen Sie eine Liste von 8 Möglichkeiten auf Deutsch.
The following are examples. Accept any appropriate school subjects which the candidate might choose: