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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 words

There were 11 questions

Objective
To develop the student's ability to use words as units of language

Overall Result
Average score for this part of the test: 61% correct answers
Easiest question: 89% correct answers
Most difficult question: 24% correct answers



Easiest question

Objective
Familiarity with commonly-used words

Sometimes people use the Spanish language wrongly. Mark the mistake in this example:

El pescao llegó fresco al almacén
There should be no article                          1
There should be a "d" between the "a" and the "o"   2*
The sentence should have been in the plural         3
The sentence is correctly written                   4


Most difficult question

Objective
To distinguish words of different meaning by their spelling
Circle the number of the correct meaning:

BARÓN

 
Noble title                1*
Person of the male sex     2
Holy man                   3


Average difficulty question

Objective
Grouping together words with related meanings

Mark the word which is different from the others

Snowfall     1*
Breeze       2
Wind         3
Hurricane    4
Gale         5


Correct answers

 

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