Index – Science – School TV: Tips for graduating oral history

This time, Valéria Jánosi has added tips for the oral exam, the series of whose elements are compiled in the private student school at the intermediate level. Typically teachers issue 20-22 topics that do not equal the item drawn on the test – the teacher explained the difference through examples.

Then he illustrated the structure of the items, starting with the student pulling out an envelope – it is important to talk only about the latter of the topic and task specified in the test. There are also mistakes that graduates often make, and Valeria Janussi also covers them.

At the intermediate level, students are accountable to an examination board for their teachers at their school. The student does not receive their answer score immediately, and usually does not know it on that day. The instructor also explained the course of the exam in detail, and gave more good advice to the graduates. He emphasized that there are 15 minutes to the answer that the committee listens to silently, only in one case: if the student deviates from the topic and does not talk about the task.

The evaluation criteria for the final oral exam are the same as those used for the written exam, and they are as follows:

• Understand the task, keep the topic, highlight the point
• Orientation in time and place
• Communication and use of professional language
• Use and evaluation of resources
• Explore the factors that shape events, problem-oriented presentation of historical events and phenomena

A student can get a total of 50 points for his answer.

After detailing what mistakes students should avoid on exam day and what to look for so they don’t challenge their answers unnecessarily, the teacher also provided some advice on how to make sure you pass the exam. He stressed the importance of the response plan, and that the opening sentence should be about determining the place and time, bringing the student together with concepts he thinks might be present in the key to the solution, and analyzing the resources obtained. Then he led the way through a concrete example.