PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BEFORE TAKING ANY EXAM IN THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT:
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BA exams
Exams in the BA plan d'études
Students sit two Faculty exams linked to third-year modules (one thirty-minute oral and one 4-
hour written paper).
For Literature exams
Students are examined on the contents of:
a) a third-year seminar
b) a personal bibliography consisting of relevant texts linked to a) (as a general guideline, about 8
extra items, to be discussed with the teacher), but prepared independently.
It is the responsibility of the student to submit the personal bibliography for the examiner’s
approval before the end of Week 13 preceding the exam period.
Considering first a passage from the primary literature read in class or a set of linguistic data
connected to the seminar and selected by the examiner, students provide an initial
analysis/interpretation that is based on a question specified by the examiner. Examinees are
expected to base their analysis on the course material and the personal bibliography. The
examiner may then ask follow-up questions about the analysis or about further pertinent issues
related to a) and b).
For Linguistics exams
If you decide to do an oral exam in English Linguistics, you will have to prepare a reading list of 15 book chapters or articles, which means that you must pick 10 articles from the course reading and supplement them with 5 additional articles. Please organise your reading list by topic.
Both the reading list and the topics have to be submitted to the respective course convenor in Week 8 of the semester (unless stated otherwise in the respective course handbooks).
Your exam topics should not overlap significantly with your course assessments and/or your extended essay topics.
In the actual oral exam (30min), you will be given 3 questions related to your reading list and you have to answer 2 of these questions thoroughly. Note that you are allowed to bring the articles/chapters (clean or lightly annotated) to the preparation period for the oral exam (30 minutes before the exam) and use them while preparing.
For Literature exams
Students are examined on the contents of:
a) a third-year seminar
b) a personal bibliography consisting of relevant texts linked to a) (as a general guideline, about 8
extra items, to be discussed with the teacher), but prepared independently.
It is the responsibility of the student to submit the personal bibliography for the examiner’s
approval before the end of Week 13 preceding the exam period.
Students write an essay based on one question (out of a choice of three) addressing both the
course material and the personal bibliography.
For Linguistics exams
If you decide to do a written exam in English Linguistics, you will have to prepare a reading list of 15 book chapters or articles, which means that you must pick 10 articles from the course reading and supplement them with 5 additional articles. Please organise your reading list by topic.
Both the reading list and the topics have to be submitted to the respective course convenor in Week 8 of the semester (unless stated otherwise in the respective course handbooks).
Your exam topics should not overlap significantly with your course assessments and/or your extended essay topics.
In the actual written exam (4h), you will be given 3 questions related to your reading list and you have to answer 1 of these questions extensively. Note that you are allowed to bring the articles/chapters (clean or lightly annotated) to the written exam and use them while writing.
