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MARK SCHEME – GCSE BENGALI – 8638/WF – JUNE2023
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AQA
GCSE
BENGALI
8638/WF
Paper 4 Writing Foundation Tier
Mark scheme
June 2023
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, MARK SCHEME – GCSE BENGALI – 8638/WF – JUNE
2023
Part 1 – General marking guidance for GCSE MFL Writing Tests
Level of response marking instructions
Level of response mark schemes are broken down into levels, each of which has a descriptor. The
descriptor for the level shows the average performance for the level. There are marks in each level.
Before you apply the mark scheme to a student’s answer read through the answer and annotate it (as
instructed) to show the qualities that are being looked for. You can then apply the mark scheme.
Step 1 Determine a level
Start at the lowest level of the mark scheme and use it as a ladder to see whether the answer meets the
descriptor for that level. The descriptor for the level indicates the different qualities that might be seen in
the student’s answer 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 answer. With
practice and familiarity you will find that for better answers 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 answer and not look to pick holes in
small and specific parts of the answer where the student has not performed quite as well as the rest. If
the answer 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 response 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.
Step 2 Determine a mark
Once you have assigned a level you need to decide on the mark. The descriptors on how to allocate
marks can help with this. The exemplar materials used during standardisation will help. There will be an
answer in the standardising materials which will correspond with each level of the mark scheme. This
answer will have been awarded a mark by the Lead Examiner. You can compare the student’s answer
with the example to determine if it is the same standard, better or worse than the example. You can then
use this to allocate a mark for the answer based on the Lead Examiner’s mark on the example.
You may well need to read back through the answer as you apply the mark scheme to clarify points and
assure yourself that the level and the mark are appropriate.
Indicative content in the mark scheme is provided as a guide for examiners. It is not intended to be
exhaustive and you must credit other valid points. Students do not have to cover all of the points
mentioned in the Indicative content to reach the highest level of the mark scheme.
An answer which contains nothing of relevance to the question must be awarded no marks.
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, MARK SCHEME – GCSE BENGALI – 8638/WF – JUNE
2023
Marks will be allocated in the following way at Foundation Tier:
Communication Content Quality of Conveying Application of Total
language key grammatical
messages knowledge of
language and
structures
Question 1 8 8
Question 2 10 6 16
Question 3 5 5 10
Question 4 10 6 16
Total 8 20 12 5 5 50
Foundation Question 1
There are 8 marks for Communication.
Candidates are required to write four sentences about what is in the photo. Each sentence is marked
separately and is worth a maximum of two marks, according to these assessment criteria.
Mark Communication
2 The relevant message is clearly communicated.
1 The message is relevant but has some ambiguity and causes a delay in communication.
0 The message is irrelevant or cannot be understood.
Statements must refer to what is in the photo and cannot refer to what is not in it. ‘I like the photo’ and
similar opinions about the photo, without mentioning what is in it, will score 0. However, if the sentence
reads, for example, ‘I like the photo because it is sunny’, it will score 2 marks.
If the sentence could possibly be true or is very broadly relevant, accept it. For instance, it is acceptable
if the candidate writes ‘The tent is green’, even though the photo is in black and white. However, if the
sentence is clearly false, it receives a mark of 0. For example, ‘There is an elephant’, when there clearly
isn’t one.
It is acceptable to write a figure (eg ‘There are 2 people’) rather than a word. This is true of all questions
at both Foundation and Higher tiers.
The aim of this question is for candidates to write in the present tense, but other tenses are also
acceptable.
For 2 marks
The response must be in the form of a sentence, using an appropriate conjugated verb. The only
exception to this is in Bengali, where GLv‡b/ †mLv‡b/ GUv/ †mUv/ IUv may be used in place of a
verb. The same verb/grammatical structure may be repeated in more than one sentence, †hgbt Av‡Q/
i‡q‡Q plus different nouns.
Any sentence that is broadly relevant to the photo is given 2 marks. For example, imagine that the
photo is of a man in a café. The student writes, in the target language: It’s a man. He’s old (even if to
your eyes he may not be – ‘old’ to a 16-year-old may be different from your perception of ‘old’). He’s a
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