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Listening: Paper 3, both sections, and the twenty per cent of the A-Level that rests on hearing Turkish

This topic carries the whole of Paper 3, Listening, reading and writing in Turkish, which runs two hours fifteen minutes, carries 60 marks and is worth 30 per cent of the A-Level. Section A is listening comprehension for 30 marks over a recommended 45 minutes: four questions, multiple-choice and open-response, including questions that specifically test summary skills, on spoken passages covering different registers and types, featuring one or more male and female Turkish-language speakers, drawn across all four themes, and with sources including online media. Section B is a 30-mark question over a recommended hour and a half, combining one listening source and one written text drawn from a single sub-theme: 5(a) and 5(b) ask for summaries of the different points of view in each source, and 5(c) asks the student to evaluate those viewpoints and draw conclusions in approximately 200 to 250 words. Everything in both sections is set in Turkish and must be answered in Turkish. Two structural facts govern the whole paper: the student has individual control of the recording and may stop, revisit and replay at will, and this paper carries the entire AO1 weighting of the qualification.

5 sections·~30 min reading time·4 competencies·Level Foundation 1 · Standard 3 · Advanced 1

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Exam profile
AO1 · Understand spoken Turkish from a range of sources and respond to it in writingAO2 · Understand written Turkish and combine it with a spoken source in one evaluative answerAO3 · Write accurate Turkish under time pressure, in summary and in evaluationAO4 · Bring thematic knowledge to bear on what is heard, so that context supports comprehension
Operators:özetlemekdeğerlendirmekkarşılaştırmaksonuç çıkarmakbelirlemekaktarmakgerekçelendirmekseçmek

basic level

At first-year standard the expectation is that a recording can be followed for gist and main points, that answers are written in Turkish with correct case endings, and that a summary question is answered with the number of points requested.

higher level

The full A-Level expects inference from complex spoken material, a summary that separates distinct viewpoints rather than blending them, and a 5(c) answer that evaluates both sources by name and reaches conclusions consistent with that evaluation.

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Contents · 5 sections▾
  1. Listening: Paper 3, both sections, and the twenty per cent of the A-Level that rests on hearing Turkish
    • 01The anatomy of Paper 3, and what each part is actually testing○
    • 02Individual control of the recording, turned into a deliberate three-pass method◐
    • 03Section A question types, and the questions that test summary skills◐
    • 04Section B, questions 5(a) and 5(b): summarising the different points of view◐
    • 05Section B, question 5(c): evaluating both sources in 200 to 250 words●
§ 01

The anatomy of Paper 3, and what each part is actually testing#

●○○FoundationLPPearson Edexcel 9TU0 Paper 3 — Listening, reading and writing in TurkishLPDfE GCE AS and A level subject content for modern foreign languages

Paper 3, part by part

Paper 3: Listening, reading and writing in TurkishTable with 5 columns and 4 rows, Data: Part · Marks · Time · Task · Language; Section A · 30 · 45 min · four questions, multiple-choice and open-response, including summary questions, drawn across all four themes · set in Turkish, answered in Turkish; 5(a) and 5(b) · 8 · part of 1 h 30 · summarise the different points of view in the recording and in the written text; points-based · set in Turkish, answered in Turkish; 5(c) · 22 · part of 1 h 30 · evaluate the viewpoints in both sources and draw conclusions, in about 200 to 250 words · set in Turkish, answered in Turkish; Whole paper · 60 · 2 h 15 · 30 per cent of the A-Level; carries the entire AO1 weighting; no dictionary · Turkish throughoutPARTMARKSTIMETASKLANGUAGESECTION A3045 minfour questions, multiple-choice and open-response,including summary questions,drawn across all four themesset in Turkish, answered inTurkish5(A) AND 5(B)8part of 1 h 30summarise the differentpoints of view in therecording and in the writtentext; points-basedset in Turkish, answered inTurkish5(C)22part of 1 h 30evaluate the viewpoints inboth sources and drawconclusions, in about 200 to250 wordsset in Turkish, answered inTurkishWHOLE PAPER602 h 1530 per cent of the A-Level;carries the entire AO1weighting; no dictionaryTurkish throughout
Fig. 1The table is worth memorising because it tells you where the marks are and therefore where the minutes should go. Two entries repay particular attention. Section A's material is drawn across all four themes, so no theme can be dropped in preparation, whereas Section B's two sources come from a single sub-theme, which means that once you have identified the sub-theme in the first minute, all your thematic vocabulary for it becomes available at once. And the mark split inside Section B — 8 for the two summaries against 22 for the evaluation — is the opposite of the effort split most candidates default to. The mark figure for 5(a) and 5(b) is arithmetic rather than a printed number: the specification gives three grids totalling 22 for 5(c) within a 30-mark section.

Key points

Paper 3 is the only place in this qualification where spoken Turkish is assessed at all, and it therefore carries the entire AO1 weighting. That single fact should change how a candidate allocates revision time, because AO1 cannot be compensated for anywhere else: a candidate who reads and writes well but never listens has left a fifth of the qualification untouched. The paper is 60 marks over two hours fifteen minutes, split evenly between its two sections. Section A is pure listening comprehension for 30 marks; Section B is a combined listening, reading and writing question for 30 marks. Everything in both sections is set in Turkish and must be answered in Turkish, and no dictionary is permitted.
Section A gives four questions over a recommended 45 minutes. They mix multiple-choice with open response and they include questions that specifically test summary skills. The material is spoken passages of different registers and types — the specification names authentic communication involving one or more male and female speakers, and says that sources will include material from online media — drawn across all four themes, and including an extended passage. The speakers are described as speaking at a speed appropriate to the expected understanding at this level, which in practice means natural but unhurried. The recordings are issued as a CD or as MP3 files obtained by secure download.
Section B is a different task and should be prepared differently. It gives one listening source and one written text, both drawn from a single sub-theme, and it asks three things. Question 5(a) asks the student to summarise the different points of view in one source and 5(b) the same for the other; both are marked by a points-based scheme, and together they account for 8 of the section's 30 marks. Question 5(c) asks the student to evaluate the viewpoints in both sources and draw conclusions, in approximately 200 to 250 words; it is marked by three levels-based grids — understand and respond to spoken language, AO1, out of 6; understand and respond to written language, AO2, out of 6; and accuracy and range of language, AO3, out of 10 — which is 22 marks, the great majority of the section.
Two arithmetical observations follow from that distribution and both should shape your time in the examination. First, AO3 alone is worth 10 of 5(c)'s 22 marks, more than AO1 and AO2 separately and almost as much as both together; a candidate who spends the last four minutes checking case endings and suffix harmony is spending them on the largest single grid in the section. Second, 5(a) and 5(b) are worth 8 marks between them and are points-based, which means they are the most efficient marks in the paper — quick, mechanical, and impossible to lose to a weak argument. Answer them properly and briskly, and do not let them eat the time that 5(c) needs.
Worked example

Paper 3 Section A: reading the question paper before the recording starts

You have the question paper and individual control of the audio. Use the first four minutes properly.

  1. 01Identify the theme of each question from the stem alone

    Question stems in Turkish name their subject: Konuşmacıya göre kırsal bölgelerdeki okulların en büyük sorunu nedir? tells you that this passage belongs to Theme 1's research subject or Theme 3's human geography, and that the vocabulary of schooling, transport and rural settlement is about to be used. Writing köy, taşımalı, ulaşım, devamsızlık in the margin before you press play converts a comprehension task into a recognition task.

  2. 02Notice what kind of answer each question wants

    Nedir wants a thing; Neden wants a reason; Nasıl wants a manner; Kaç wants a number; Hangisi is multiple choice. Kaç noktada or İki sebep belirtiniz tells you exactly how many items to give, and giving more than the number asked cannot gain a mark and can lose one if a wrong item is included among right ones. Underline the number in the stem before you start.

  3. 03Predict the trap in the stem

    The single commonest Section A trap in this qualification's style is a stem that asks what the speaker says is NOT the case, or what somebody OTHER than the main speaker thinks. Konuşmacının katılmadığı görüş hangisidir? asks which view the speaker does not share. Circle the negative or the attributive word in the stem now, because at the moment of listening you will hear the view stated and will write it down.

  4. 04Set your plan for the passes before you play anything

    Decide, on paper, that pass one is for architecture — how many speakers, what each is talking about, roughly where each answer lives — pass two is for the exact wording of the claims, and pass three is a targeted check of the two questions you are least sure of. Individual control makes this possible, and a candidate who plays the recording straight through three times without a plan has used the facility without gaining anything from it.

Result: Four minutes of preparation before any audio: theme and vocabulary predicted for each question, answer type and required number identified, negatives and attributions circled, and a three-pass plan written down.

Exam focus

  • Paper 3 carries the whole of AO1. It cannot be compensated for anywhere else in the qualification.
  • Section A: 30 marks, 45 minutes, four questions, multiple-choice and open-response, including summary questions.
  • Section B: 30 marks, 1 h 30; 5(a) and 5(b) points-based for 8 marks; 5(c) levels-based for 22.
  • Within 5(c), AO3 is the largest single grid at 10 marks. Check your Turkish before you add a sentence.

Typical mistakes

  • Treating listening as unrevisable and hoping for the best. It is a fifth of the A-Level.
  • Answering Section A in English. Everything in this paper is answered in Turkish.
  • Spending too long on 5(a) and 5(b), which are only 8 marks between them.
  • Adding one more idea to 5(c) instead of checking the Turkish, when accuracy and range is the largest grid.

Active revision

Sit a full Paper 3 to time with a real Turkish recording and a real Turkish text on the same sub-theme, and record how long you actually spent on each part. Compare it with 45 minutes for Section A, about 25 for 5(a) and 5(b) together, and the rest for 5(c). Then repeat with the timings corrected.

Active recall

Recall the key points — then reveal.

Sources: Pearson Edexcel Level 3 Advanced GCE in Turkish (9TU0) specification (Pearson Edexcel)

§ 02

Individual control of the recording, turned into a deliberate three-pass method#

●●○StandardLPPearson Edexcel 9TU0 Paper 3 Section A — students have individual control of the recording

Key points

The specification says that students will have individual control of the recording and may stop, revisit and replay sections of the recording as they wish. That is a structural fact about the assessment and it changes the whole method for this section. In a classroom listening test the recording is played twice at the teacher's pace and the skill being tested is partly the ability to catch things in real time. Here it is not: the recording is a document you may consult as often as you like within your 45 minutes. The skill being tested is therefore closer to reading a difficult text than to conversation, and it should be prepared as such.
The three-pass method follows from that. Pass one is for architecture and nothing else: how many speakers there are and whether they are male or female, since the specification says both may feature; what the register is, whether an interview, a report, a discussion or a monologue; roughly where in the recording each question's answer lives; and what the overall claim of the passage seems to be. Write nothing but locations and a one-line summary. Candidates who try to answer during the first pass write down the first plausible thing they hear, which is very often the position that the speaker goes on to reject.
Pass two is for exact wording, question by question, replaying only the stretch each answer lives in. This is where the marks are. Listen for the whole sentence before writing, because Turkish puts the verb last and the negation, the modality and the evidential marking are all in that final word: geldiğini söylemedi and gelmediğini söyledi differ by the position of a single negative and mean quite different things. Listen also for the attribution frames — bana göre, uzmanlara göre, bazılarına göre, iddia ediliyor — because a question about whose view something is depends entirely on them. Pass three is a targeted check of the two answers you are least confident about, and of nothing else.
There is a preparation regime that makes this work and it takes about fifteen minutes a day. Listen to Turkish material of the kinds the specification names — broadcast news, interviews, discussion programmes, and material from online media — on the eight sub-themes, and do it in the same three passes: once for shape, once with a transcript or subtitles if available, once without. Turkish state and private broadcasters publish extensively online, and the specification's own list of what counts as an authentic source for research is a good list of what to listen to. What matters is not volume but the discipline of the second pass, where you find out which words you thought you knew and did not.
Worked example

Paper 3 Section A: the second pass on a sentence whose meaning is in its last word

You are working on a question about what a speaker says regarding an environmental project. Practise the discipline of waiting for the verb.

  1. 01Hear the whole sentence before deciding anything

    Suppose you hear: Projenin bölgeye iş imkânı getireceğini söyleyenler var; ancak ben raporun bu konuda yeterince açık olmadığını düşünüyorum. If you stop at getireceğini söyleyenler var you have heard that there are people saying the project will bring jobs, and you may write that as the speaker's view. It is not: the speaker's own view arrives after ancak, and it is about the report's clarity, not about jobs at all.

  2. 02Separate the reported view from the speaker's view by their frames

    Söyleyenler var, there are those who say, is an attribution to unnamed others. Ben ... düşünüyorum, I think, is the speaker's own. The two are separated by ancak. A question asking Konuşmacının görüşü nedir? wants the second; a question asking Metinde hangi görüş aktarılıyor? wants the first. In Turkish the frame is often a participle nominalised as a subject — söyleyenler, düşünenler, iddia edenler — and hearing that as a frame rather than as content is a skill worth drilling.

  3. 03Parse the speaker's own claim precisely

    raporun bu konuda yeterince açık olmadığını düşünüyorum. Raporun is genitive as the subject of the nominalisation; yeterince açık olmadığını is the negative -DIk nominalisation in the accusative, that it is not sufficiently clear. So the claim is about the report's clarity, hedged by bu konuda, on this matter. An answer saying the speaker opposes the project would be wrong; the speaker has said nothing about the project itself.

  4. 04Write the answer in Turkish, in the speaker's own logic

    Konuşmacı projeye karşı olduğunu söylemiyor; raporun istihdam konusunda yeterince açık olmadığını düşündüğünü belirtiyor. Two nominalisations, one negative, and the whole answer turns on the distinction the sentence made. Note that this kind of answer — saying explicitly what the speaker did not say — is often exactly what a well-set open-response question is testing, and it costs one extra clause.

Result: Model answer in Turkish: Konuşmacı projeye karşı olduğunu söylemiyor; raporun istihdam konusunda yeterince açık olmadığını düşündüğünü belirtiyor.

Exam focus

  • Individual control is a structural feature, not a concession. Build a method that uses it.
  • Pass one: architecture only. Pass two: exact wording, question by question. Pass three: your two weakest answers.
  • Turkish puts the verb last, so negation, modality and evidentiality arrive at the end. Wait for the sentence to finish.
  • Attribution frames decide whose-view questions. Learn to hear göre, iddia ediliyor and belirtiliyor.

Typical mistakes

  • Answering during the first play and never revising the answer.
  • Replaying the whole recording three times instead of replaying the relevant stretch.
  • Writing down the first view stated, which is often the one the speaker goes on to reject.
  • Practising listening only with slow classroom material and never with real broadcast Turkish.

Active revision

Take a ten-minute Turkish interview on any sub-theme. Pass one: write only who is speaking, in what register, and a one-line summary. Pass two: write the exact wording of three claims, with their attribution frames. Pass three: check the two you are least sure of. Then read a transcript and score yourself.

Active recall

Recall the key points — then reveal.

Sources: Pearson Edexcel Level 3 Advanced GCE in Turkish (9TU0) specification (Pearson Edexcel)

§ 03

Section A question types, and the questions that test summary skills#

●●○StandardLPPearson Edexcel 9TU0 Paper 3 Section A — question types including summary

Key points

Section A mixes multiple-choice with open response and, unusually for a listening section, includes questions that specifically test summary skills. Each type has its own method. For multiple choice, read all the options before playing the relevant stretch, and expect the distractors to differ from the answer by a quantifier, a scope word or a negation rather than by subject matter — çoğu against bazı, her zaman against genellikle, arttı against artmadı. For open response, the answer is written in Turkish and marked for content and for accuracy, so it should be one clean clause rather than a paragraph. For summary questions, the number of points wanted is stated and should be matched exactly.
The commonest failure in an open-response listening answer is lifting: writing down what you heard, word for word, as your answer. It is understandable — the recording has just supplied a grammatical Turkish sentence — but it demonstrates transcription rather than comprehension, and a well-set question is designed so that the heard sentence is not the answer to the question asked. The remedy is mechanical: before writing, decide in one English word what the question wants — a reason, a consequence, a contrast, a number, an attribution — and then build a Turkish clause around that. Nedeni, sonucu, farkı, oranı, kime ait olduğu.
The Turkish for writing summaries should be practised until it is automatic, because under time pressure candidates fall back on English sentence shapes. Useful frames: -A göre, according to; ... olduğunu belirtiyor, states that; ... olduğunu savunuyor, argues that; ... konusunda uyarıyor, warns about; buna karşılık, by contrast; ayrıca, moreover; bir başka görüşe göre, according to another view; hem ... hem de, both ... and; ne ... ne de, neither ... nor. Nominalisation is the engine of all of them: X'in Y olduğu, that X is Y, formed with -DIk plus a possessive, is the single most useful structure in this whole paper.
A word on speed and register, because the specification is explicit that Section A covers different registers and types and includes material from online media. That means the recordings will not all be studio news. An informal interview will contain false starts, fillers such as yani, şey and işte, and colloquial contractions — ne yapıyorsun becoming napıyon in rapid speech, geliyor becoming geliyo. You are not asked to produce any of this, but you must not be derailed by it. Deliberate exposure to unscripted Turkish speech, not only to broadcast news, is the only preparation that helps, and it is the reason the specification lists online audio-visual material and interviews among authentic sources.
Worked example

Paper 3 Section A: a summary question answered to the number of points requested

The question is: Konuşmacının geleneksel el sanatlarının geleceği konusunda ileri sürdüğü üç görüşü belirtiniz. You have heard a craftsman interviewed.

  1. 01Count what you have before you write

    Suppose the craftsman said, across five minutes, that fewer young people enter the trade than thirty years ago, that municipal courses teach technique but not the trade as a livelihood, that the tourist market keeps some workshops open, that he would not advise his own children to take it up, and that he thinks a state purchase scheme would help more than a subsidy. That is five candidate points for a question asking for three. Choosing which three is part of the task.

  2. 02Choose three distinct points, not three phrasings of one

    Fewer young people entering and he would not advise his children are close to being the same point from two directions, and a marker will very likely treat them as one. Choose points that are distinct in content: the decline in entrants, the limitation of municipal courses, and the preference for purchase over subsidy. Three separate claims, three separate marks.

  3. 03Write each as one clause with its own frame

    Ustaya göre otuz yıl öncesine kıyasla mesleğe giren genç sayısı azalmıştır. Belediye kurslarının tekniği öğrettiğini, ancak mesleği bir geçim yolu olarak öğretmediğini belirtmektedir. Devlet desteğinin sübvansiyondan çok satın alma biçiminde olmasını savunmaktadır. Three frames — göre, belirtmek, savunmak — three clauses, and each one a different structure, which serves accuracy and range at the same time.

  4. 04Check the three things that lose marks in a Turkish summary

    First, the case governed by each verb: kıyasla takes the dative, savunmak takes an accusative object, and the nominalisations must be in the accusative when they are objects. Second, the possessive agreement inside every nominalisation: öğrettiğini is third person because the courses are the subject. Third, the harmony of every suffix. Reading the three sentences once, looking only at endings, takes thirty seconds and is the highest-value thirty seconds in the section.

Result: Model answer in Turkish, three points: Ustaya göre otuz yıl öncesine kıyasla mesleğe giren genç sayısı azalmıştır. Belediye kurslarının tekniği öğrettiğini, ancak mesleği bir geçim yolu olarak öğretmediğini belirtmektedir. Devlet desteğinin sübvansiyondan çok satın alma biçiminde olmasını savunmaktadır.

Exam focus

  • Multiple-choice distractors differ by quantifier, scope or negation. Read all options first.
  • Never lift the heard sentence as your answer. Decide what the question wants, then build a clause.
  • Match the number of points a summary question asks for exactly.
  • Section A includes informal registers. Prepare with unscripted speech, not only with news.

Typical mistakes

  • Writing a paragraph where one clause is wanted, and losing accuracy marks in the extra words.
  • Giving four points when three are asked for, and including a wrong one among them.
  • Choosing a multiple-choice option because its words appeared in the recording. So do the distractors.
  • Preparing only with slow, scripted material and then meeting an unscripted interview.

Active revision

Take one Turkish discussion programme of ten minutes and write, in Turkish, a three-point summary of each speaker's position, using a different attribution frame for each point and no more than one clause per point. Then check every case ending and every possessive.

Active recall

Recall the key points — then reveal.

Sources: Pearson Edexcel Level 3 Advanced GCE in Turkish (9TU0) specification (Pearson Edexcel)

§ 04

Section B, questions 5(a) and 5(b): summarising the different points of view#

●●○StandardLPPearson Edexcel 9TU0 Paper 3 Section B — students summarise the different points of view in both sources

Key points

Section B gives one listening source and one written text, both drawn from a single sub-theme, and the first thing to do on opening it is to identify that sub-theme. Once you know that both sources are about, say, kırsal kesimden kente göç or geleneksel el sanatları, the whole vocabulary field you have prepared for that sub-theme becomes available at once, and comprehension of both sources improves before you have processed a word of either. This is the most direct return on thematic preparation anywhere in the qualification and it takes thirty seconds.
Questions 5(a) and 5(b) ask you to summarise the different points of view in each source. The wording matters: different points of view, not the content. A source that describes a situation and then reports three people disagreeing about it contains three points of view and a lot of content that is not a point of view; a summary that reproduces the content and misses the disagreement has answered a different question. The practical test is that every sentence of your summary should be attributable to somebody — a named speaker, an unnamed group, the writer — and if a sentence is not, it is probably background rather than a viewpoint.
Both questions are marked by a points-based scheme, which has three consequences. Distinct points must be distinct: two phrasings of one view earn one mark, so blending is expensive. There is no credit for elegance, so a list of short attributed clauses beats a flowing paragraph. And there is no credit for evaluation here — that is 5(c)'s job, and a candidate who starts judging in 5(a) is spending time on marks that are not available in that question. Together the two questions are worth 8 of the section's 30 marks, which is a useful proportion for a mechanical task and a poor use of half your time.
The Turkish for this is a small toolkit and it should be automatic. To attribute: konuşmacıya göre, yazara göre, uzmana göre, muhabire göre, bir dinleyiciye göre. To report: ... olduğunu belirtiyor, ... olduğunu savunuyor, ... konusunda uyarıyor, ... olduğunu ileri sürüyor. To mark that two views differ: buna karşılık, bunun aksine, ise, oysa. To mark that they agree: benzer biçimde, aynı şekilde, o da. To mark a qualification inside a view: ancak, yine de, buna rağmen. Write the summary as a numbered or clearly separated set of clauses; nothing in the mark scheme rewards continuous prose, and separation makes each distinct point visible to the marker.
Worked example

Paper 3 Section B: 5(a) and 5(b) on a single sub-theme, written to the mark scheme

The sub-theme is Çevre. The recording is a resident of a coastal town; the text is an opinion column by an engineer. Write both summaries.

  1. 01Identify the sub-theme and prime the vocabulary

    Çevre, so the field is çevre kirliliği, doğal kaynaklar, sürdürülebilirlik, ÇED, atık, yapılaşma, su kaynakları, turizm baskısı. Thirty seconds of recall now saves several minutes of decoding later, and it also tells you what kind of viewpoints to expect: the standard axis in this sub-theme is environment against employment or development, and knowing that lets you listen for which side each speaker takes.

  2. 025(a): the resident, three distinct views

    Kasaba sakinine göre yaz aylarında su kesintileri artmıştır ve bunun nedeni otellerin tüketimidir. Kasabada iş imkânının büyük ölçüde turizme bağlı olduğunu kabul etmektedir. Buna karşılık, yeni yapılaşma izinlerinin durdurulması gerektiğini savunmaktadır. Three views: a cause is asserted, a dependence is conceded, and a policy is demanded. The concession in the middle is a distinct view and a candidate who omits it because it complicates the picture has lost a mark.

  3. 035(b): the engineer, three distinct views, in the source's register

    Mühendise göre sorun yalnızca tüketim değil, altyapının kapasitesidir. Mevcut şebekenin nüfus artışına göre tasarlanmadığını belirtmektedir. Yapılaşmanın durdurulması yerine, arıtma ve depolama yatırımının önceliklendirilmesini önermektedir. Note that the engineer's third view directly contradicts the resident's third, which is the material 5(c) will need; noticing the contradiction while writing 5(b) saves you finding it later.

  4. 04Check that the two summaries are summaries and not evaluations

    Read both back looking for any word that is yours rather than the source's: haklı olarak, doğru biçimde, ne yazık ki. Every one of those is an evaluation and belongs in 5(c). Also check that each clause carries an attribution frame and that no two clauses in the same summary make the same point. Six attributed clauses, no judgement, all distinct — that is what 8 marks looks like.

Result: 5(a): Kasaba sakinine göre yaz aylarında su kesintileri artmıştır ve bunun nedeni otellerin tüketimidir; kasabada iş imkânının büyük ölçüde turizme bağlı olduğunu kabul etmektedir; buna karşılık yeni yapılaşma izinlerinin durdurulması gerektiğini savunmaktadır. 5(b): Mühendise göre sorun yalnızca tüketim değil, altyapının kapasitesidir; mevcut şebekenin nüfus artışına göre tasarlanmadığını belirtmektedir; yapılaşmanın durdurulması yerine arıtma ve depolama yatırımını önermektedir.

Exam focus

  • Identify the shared sub-theme first. It unlocks the vocabulary for both sources at once.
  • Different points of view, not content. Every sentence should be attributable to somebody.
  • Distinct points, separately stated. Blending two views into one sentence earns one mark.
  • Do not evaluate here. Evaluation is 5(c) and there are no marks for it in 5(a) or 5(b).

Typical mistakes

  • Summarising what the source is about rather than the views it contains.
  • Writing a flowing paragraph in which two distinct viewpoints share a clause.
  • Beginning to judge the views in 5(a), which spends time where no marks are available.
  • Using the same attribution frame five times, which costs nothing in these questions but builds a bad habit for 5(c).

Active revision

Find one Turkish radio discussion and one Turkish opinion article on the same sub-theme. Write 5(a) and 5(b) for them: three or four attributed clauses each, no evaluation, every point distinct. Then count how many of your clauses could be attributed to a named or described holder. Any that cannot is background.

Active recall

Recall the key points — then reveal.

Sources: Pearson Edexcel Level 3 Advanced GCE in Turkish (9TU0) specification (Pearson Edexcel)

§ 05

Section B, question 5(c): evaluating both sources in 200 to 250 words#

●●●AdvancedLPPearson Edexcel 9TU0 Paper 3 Section B — question 5(c), evaluate the viewpoints and draw conclusions

Key points

Question 5(c) asks the student to evaluate the viewpoints in the recording and in the text and to draw conclusions, in approximately 200 to 250 words. It is marked by three grids: understand and respond to spoken language, AO1, out of 6; understand and respond to written language, AO2, out of 6; and accuracy and range of language, AO3, out of 10. The AO1 and AO2 grids are printed side by side in the specification precisely because the task requires the student to weigh what was heard against what was read, and both descriptors warn against straying into description of content without evaluation. That warning is the single most useful sentence in the mark scheme, and it describes the commonest failure exactly.
The structural consequence of two six-mark grids is that both sources must be evaluated by name and at comparable length. An answer that engages richly with the written text and mentions the recording once has forfeited most of six marks however good it is, and the reverse is equally true. In 200 to 250 words there is room for roughly four paragraphs of sixty words, and a reliable shape is: what the two sources agree on; where they diverge and why; which you find better supported, with a reason; and a conclusion that follows from the preceding three rather than restating them.
Evaluation, as opposed to summary, means saying something about a view rather than repeating it. The available moves are few and all of them are learnable. You can assess the evidence a view rests on — is it experience, measurement, inference or assertion. You can assess its scope — is it a claim about one town or about the country. You can note what a source does not address, which is often the sharpest available observation. You can note that two views are compatible although the sources present them as opposed, or incompatible although they appear to agree. And you can say which would be changed by what evidence, which is the strongest single move available and costs one sentence.
The Turkish for evaluation should be prepared as deliberately as the Turkish for summary. To assess a claim: ikna edici, convincing; tutarlı, consistent; temellendirilmiş, grounded; kanıta dayalı, evidence-based; tek örneğe dayanıyor, rests on a single example; genellemeye açık, prone to generalisation. To locate a gap: hiç ele almıyor, does not address at all; sorusuna değinmiyor, does not touch on the question of. To weigh: daha ağır basıyor, weighs more heavily; buna karşılık, by contrast; her ikisi de haklı olabilir, both may be right. To conclude: bu nedenle, therefore; dolayısıyla, consequently; sonuç olarak, in conclusion; kanımca, in my view. And remember that AO3 is the largest single grid: the last two minutes belong to the case endings.
Worked example

Paper 3 Section B: a full 5(c) built from the 5(a) and 5(b) of the previous section

Using the resident and the engineer on the Çevre sub-theme, write the 200-to-250-word evaluation.

  1. 01Paragraph one: what the two agree on, which is more than it looks

    Her iki kaynak da kasabada bir su sorunu bulunduğunu ve bu sorunun turizmle bağlantılı olduğunu kabul etmektedir. Anlaşmazlık sorunun varlığında değil, nedeninin nerede aranacağındadır. Establishing the shared ground first is not filler: it makes the disagreement precise, and precision about a disagreement is what an evaluative grid rewards. Note nerede aranacağındadır, a future participle nominalised and put in the locative with the copula — an expensive-looking structure built from ordinary parts.

  2. 02Paragraph two: where they diverge, and what each rests on

    Kasaba sakininin görüşü doğrudan gözleme dayanmaktadır ve bu, kesintilerin ne zaman yaşandığı konusunda güvenilirdir; ancak tüketimin nedeni olduğu sonucu bir çıkarımdır, ölçüm değildir. Mühendisin görüşü ise altyapı kapasitesine dayanmakta ve daha genel bir açıklama sunmaktadır; buna karşılık yerel deneyimi hiç ele almamaktadır. This paragraph does the AO1 and AO2 work simultaneously: it evaluates the spoken source's evidential basis and the written source's scope and gap, in that order, and at equal length.

  3. 03Paragraph three: which is better supported, and what would settle it

    Bana göre mühendisin açıklaması daha kapsamlıdır, çünkü sakinin gözlemini de içerebilir: kapasitesi yetersiz bir şebekede, otel tüketimi kesintiyi tetikleyen etken olabilir. Tartışmayı çözecek olan şey ise şudur: yaz aylarındaki tüketim verilerinin sektörlere göre ayrıştırılması. The first sentence shows the two views are compatible, which is a real analytical move; the second names the evidence that would decide between them, which is the strongest sentence in the answer.

  4. 04Paragraph four: a conclusion that follows, then check the Turkish

    Sonuç olarak, iki kaynak birbirini yalanlamaktan çok tamamlamaktadır; ancak politika önerileri gerçekten çelişmektedir ve bu çelişki, yukarıda belirttiğim veriler olmadan çözülemez. Now check: every case ending, every possessive inside every nominalisation, every suffix harmony. Count the words — 200 to 250 — and count the sentences that evaluate rather than describe. AO3 is ten marks and it is the last thing you should touch.

Result: Core of the answer: Her iki kaynak da bir su sorunu bulunduğunu kabul etmektedir; anlaşmazlık, nedenin nerede aranacağındadır. Kasaba sakininin görüşü doğrudan gözleme dayanır ama nedeni bir çıkarımdır; mühendisin görüşü daha geneldir ama yerel deneyimi ele almaz. Tartışmayı çözecek olan, yaz tüketim verilerinin sektörlere göre ayrıştırılmasıdır.

Exam focus

  • Three grids: AO1 out of 6 for the recording, AO2 out of 6 for the text, AO3 out of 10 for accuracy and range.
  • Both sources must be evaluated by name and at comparable length, or six marks are at risk.
  • Evaluate, do not describe. The grid names straying into description as the failure it is.
  • Naming what evidence would settle the disagreement is the strongest single move and costs one sentence.

Typical mistakes

  • Writing a third summary instead of an evaluation.
  • Evaluating the text thoroughly and the recording in one clause.
  • Concluding something the preceding paragraphs did not support.
  • Spending the last three minutes adding an idea rather than checking the Turkish, when AO3 is worth 10.

Active revision

Write four 5(c) answers to time, on four different sub-themes, and after each one mark yourself against the three grids separately: count the words devoted to the recording, count the words devoted to the text, and underline every sentence that evaluates rather than describes. If fewer than half your sentences are underlined, write it again.

Active recall

Recall the key points — then reveal.

Sources: Pearson Edexcel Level 3 Advanced GCE in Turkish (9TU0) specification (Pearson Edexcel)

Contents

Section -- / 05

    • 01The anatomy of Paper 3, and what each part is actually testing○
    • 02Individual control of the recording, turned into a deliberate three-pass method◐
    • 03Section A question types, and the questions that test summary skills◐
    • 04Section B, questions 5(a) and 5(b): summarising the different points of view◐
    • 05Section B, question 5(c): evaluating both sources in 200 to 250 words●

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  • Pearson Edexcel Level 3 Advanced GCE in Turkish (9TU0) specification

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