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Assessment of primary education
What 12-year-old students learn

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Spanish language and literature
Written expression

Using texts

There were 3 questions

Objective
To develop the student's ability to communicate using paragraphs

Overall Result
Average score for this part of the test: 67% correct answers
Easiest question: 80% correct answers
Most difficult question: 52% correct answers



Easiest question

Objective
Placing sentences in the proper order

Read the following sentences carefully and put them in order so that they make up a meaningful text.

a. My name is Carnavalito
b. Instead of replying, Carnavalito took out his harmonica
c. "What is your name?", he ventured to ask
d. And the boy replied
e. "Where did you appear from, Carnavalito?"

a - b - d - e - c     1
b - a - d - c - e     2
c - d - a - e - b     3*
c - d - e - b - a     4

Most difficult question

Objective
To continue an unfinished text

Which of the sentences below would you use to continue the following text?

Huge raindrops exploded in the dust. The mother and child reached the shelter of a rock.

He pricked up his ears and sniffed the air            1
Father and son rested for a few moments on the rock   2
Hard and white, like marble                           3
Lightning fell around them like burning whiplashes    4*

Average difficulty question

Objective
Average difficulty question

A written text may be narrative, a poem, a dialogue, etc.
How is the dialogue between characters represented in a written text?

Each character introduces him/herself            1
It is not represented in any special way         2
By putting inverted commas whenever one of
   the characters starts to speak                3
By a dash in front of the words spoken by
   the characters, or else indirectly by the
   words of the narrator                         4*

Correct answers

 

Ordered: easiest, most difficult, average difficulty question.


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