2023 AQA GCSE SPANISH 8698/SH Paper 2 Speaking Higher Mark scheme including
Guidance for Role-plays June 2023 [VERIFIED]
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Mark scheme including Guidance for Role-plays
June 2023
Version: 1.0 Final
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MARK SCHEME – GCSE SPANISH – 8698/SH – JUNE 2023
Mark schemes are prepared by the Lead Assessment Writer and considered, together with the
relevant questions, by a panel of subject teachers. This mark scheme includes any amendments made
at the standardisation events which all associates participate in and is the scheme which was used by
them in this examination. The standardisation process ensures that the mark scheme covers the
students’ responses to questions and that every associate understands and applies it in the same
correct way. As preparation for standardisation each associate analyses a number of students’ tests.
Alternative answers not already covered by the mark scheme are discussed and legislated for. If, after
the standardisation process, associates encounter unusual answers which have not been raised they
are required to refer these to the Lead Examiner.
It must be stressed that a mark scheme is a working document, in many cases further developed
and expanded on the basis of students’ reactions to a particular paper. Assumptions about future
mark schemes on the basis of one year’s document should be avoided; whilst the guiding principles
of assessment remain constant, details will change, depending on the content of a particular
examination paper.
Further copies of this mark scheme are available from aqa.org.uk
MARK SCHEME – GCSE SPANISH – 8698/SH – JUNE 2023
Contents
Page
4 Part One Mark Scheme
6 Section 1: Role-play
9 Section 2: Discussion of photo card
11 Section 3: General conversation (Higher tier)
15 Appendix 1: Subject content (Themes)
16 Appendix 2: Speaking Score Sheet
17 Appendix 3: Symbols for annotating Speaking Score Sheet
18 Appendix 4: Marking of photo card – guidance notes
26 Appendix 5: Role-plays – General Principles
27 Appendix 6: Photo cards – General Principles
28 Appendix 7: Photo cards – Guidance on paraphrasing
29 Part Two Mark Scheme
29 Section 1: Role-plays – specific June 2023 mark schemes
43 Section 2: Photo cards – specific June 2023 guidance
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MARK SCHEME – GCSE SPANISH – 8698/SH – JUNE 2023
Speaking Tests – Higher tier
Part One Mark Scheme
Principles of marking
The Speaking Tests are marked in accordance with the assessment criteria provided later in this
document. No allowance can be made for poor teacher conduct of the tests. You can only
assess what you hear.
If a candidate requires a prompt or explanation of any kind, including the provision of an item
of obviously unknown vocabulary, this must be given clearly and audibly by the teacherexaminer without stopping the recording.
Level of response marking instructions
Level of response mark schemes are used in the Photo card and General conversation tasks.
The criteria are broken down into levels, each of which has a descriptor. The descriptor for the
level shows the average performance for that level.
Step 1 Determine a level
Start at the lowest level of the mark scheme and use it as a ladder to see whether the student
performance meets the descriptor for that level. The descriptor for the level indicates the different
qualities that might be seen in the student’s performance for that level. If it meets the lowest level then
go to the next one and decide if it meets this level, and so on, until you have a match between the level
descriptor and the performance. With practice and familiarity, you will find that for better performances
you will be able to quickly skip through the lower levels of the mark scheme.
When assigning a level, you should look at the overall quality of the performance and not look to pick
holes where the student has not performed quite as well as the rest. If the performance covers
different aspects of different levels of the mark scheme, you should use a ‘best fit’ approach for
defining the level and then use the variability of the performance to help decide the mark within the
level, ie if the response is predominantly level 3 with a small amount of level 4 material it would be
placed in level 3 but be awarded a mark near the top of the level because of the level 4 content.
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