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Applies to Art Historians.

The Reading Examination will take place in April/May 2020Ìýand is timetabled by ¹û¶³Ó°ÔºÌýStudent and Registry Services. Your examination timetable, which includes dates, times and locations, will be available on in March 2020.

Date: April/May 2020

Duration: 2 hours

This examination tests Reading skills through a number of tasks based on extracts from exhibition catalogues, history of art books, art magazines, art reviews etc.

Candidates should not indicate their identity through the use of their own names etc. Only candidate numbers should be used.

Unless indicated otherwise all tasks are to be performed in English.

General informationÌý

Language of questions/tasks: English

Maximum length of texts altogether: 1000-1200 words

The use of a dictionary is allowed in the Reading Examination for Art Historians.Ìý

1. Ability to extract the main ideas from a text, to form an overall impression of a text and to summarise

50 points (extract main ideas: 25 points; form an overall impression and summarise: 25 points).

2. Ability to extract specific information, to understand detail and to infer meaning

20 points.

3. Ability to respond to a text

30 points.

Marking criteria (specific)

For general information please see the Marking Criteria (general).

• 10% deducted from candidates mark if they are 1/3 over or under words required (where specified);
• If answer is not related to task then candidate gets 0 points;
• If only part of the answer is relevant then the candidate loses points proportionally to the amount that is irrelevant. E.g. if 50% of the answer is not relevant/does not answer the task then the candidate should lose 50% of their total mark for this task (Linguistic Competence and Content points);
• Where the number of answers required is given (e.g. give three examples/explanations/synonyms) and this is exceeded: points will be deducted;
• If a question is answered in the wrong language, then 0 points will be awarded.

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