EXEMPTION TESTS ( Esoneri for members of Courses C2 & C3 will be as announced during the courses and are ONLY for members of those courses)
SUMMER SESSION LETTORATO EXAMINATIONS 2013
WRITTEN EXAMS
III YEAR EXAM: Wednesday 5th June @ 15.00 (the rooms will be chosen on the day itself)
III & IV year Vecchissimo Ordinamento Laurea Quadriennale: Wednesday 5th June @ 15.00
ENROLMENT for the examinations
By hand only (either personally or by sending a friend to do it, but it MUST be done - an excuse that a friend was sent but did not do it will not be accepted) in the folder in the corridor of the Dip. Sezione Anglistica, Villa Mirafiori, 1st floor. They are there already and will be available until Friday 31st May at 12.00.
INFORMATION, RULES & ADVICE regarding
ENGLISH LETTORATO EXAMINATIONS
1) Do not listen to student gossip about the exams but ask the teachers responsible
(Hillan & Wilson) directly. Then you will not be misinformed.
2)
The examination will be set according to the bibliography published both
on our blogs and in the department at the beginning of the academic
year. The examining commission will mark it according to the same criteria.
3) With the exception of Italian/mother-tongue bilingual dictionaries which may be used by non-Italian native speakers - not including English native speakers, NO DICTIONARIES may be used during the first GRAMMAR section of the exam. Monolingual ENGLISH DICTIONARIES may be used for the COMPOSITION PAPER. These dictionaries, brought by the students, MUST BE CLEAN (with no notes written in them, nor hiding any papers) and they will be checked during the examination (the "borrowed from a friend syndrome" is no excuse).
Cheating in university exams is an offence.
4) Candidates for the examination MUST HAVE PASSED THE 2nd year examination and BRING PROOF (the yellow card if possible, or the
verbalino) that they have done so. They should also bring proof of identity and their matriculation number.
5) NO PENCILS are allowed. ANYTHING WRITTEN IN PENCIL WILL BE INVALID. We suggest that candidates write on alternate lines to give them space for corrections and alterations in their text. Clarity is important, not tidiness.
6) NO MOBILE PHONES or other electronic gadgets are allowed during the examination.
7) Give yourselves enough time to read through and make alterations at the end. In other words, PLAN your work. When the time has finished it is finished and "STOP WRITING" means
stop.
8)
READ THE INSTRUCTIONS. READ THE INSTRUCTIONS. READ THE INSTRUCTIONS.
FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS.
FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS.
FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS.
9) Remember that this is the III and Final written English language examination before graduating in languages. It is at University Degree level. Whatever you choose to write, it must be in good and comprehensible English and must answer the questions on the examination papers (i.e. not be prepared in advance on general topics).
10) Remember that your examiners want you to show the best you can do and they want you to pass the examination with a high mark. Therefore it is a good idea only to take the examination when you feel you are ready to do so and not as if it were a lottery. After all, it is the candidate who passes an exam or the candidate who fails an exam, not the examiner, who simply checks what has been written.
Instructions for the oral part of the examination follow here:
As stated at the beginning of the year: L.L.M. students ( NOT M.L.C.) should choose one of the novels from the list below to read and comment on as preparation for their oral exam :
The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes
The Secret Scriptures, Sebastian Barry
The Uncommon Reader, Alan Bennett
Ordinary Thunderstorms, William Boyd
Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan
Brooklyn, Colm Toibin
In actual fact, since some students from earlier years will be doing the old kind of oral examination with the lettori, this year's students will also be given the opportunity to choose to do that exam, as described below. They should be aware that this is NOT A SOFT OPTION and should make sure they prepare it well.
These are details for the alternative oral examination with the lettore and for students who matriculated before the 2010-2011 academic year:
For the (lettorato) oral examination students are required to bring two copies (photocopies) of two articles on the same subject, of their own choice. One must be from a broadsheet newspaper, the other one from a tabloid. The articles must have been published within the seven days preceding the oral examination.
STUDENTS ARE REQUIRED TO COMPARE THE LANGUAGE OF THE ARTICLES THAT THEY HAVE CHOSEN. THESE SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN FROM INTERNET. THERE IS AN AMPLE CHOICE OF NEWSPAPERS IN ROME AND IN LARGE TOWNS.
STUDENTS WHO HAVE NOT PREPARED THE EXAQMINATION ADEQUATELY WILL NOT PASS THE ORAL PART AND HAVE TO TAKE IT (the oral part) AGAIN IN A FUTURE SESSION (in this case, in September).
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