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CF
The Certification
Program's
policy is that
each grader
workgroup (the
set of graders
responsible
for a given
language pair
to or from
English-e.g.,
Arabic>English,
English>Arabic,
etc.) must
maintain a bank
of six passages
per exam year.
haven't been spotted thus far
(e.g., ambiguities) and that
necessitate modification of
the passage before it's used
in an actual exam. Should any
changes arise at this point, the
revised passage is submitted
to Caron.
Passage-Specific
Guidelines
After this long series of steps
is completed, including all the
grader translations, the life of
the passage is just beginning.
To prepare for marking
candidates' translations,
the team of graders develop
a set of passage-specific
guidelines, or PSGs. (We're
fond of acronyms in this
program!) These guidelines
contain a list of challenges
and possible translations,
both acceptable and
NOTES
1.
2.
3.
unacceptable, that graders
agree to score the same
way. For example, the PSGs
might specify that translating
the same source term as
" Treasury Ministry " in one
paragraph and " Finance
Ministry " in the next merits a
four-point Cohesion Error (or
COH4), given the significant
impact on the meaning and
usefulness of the translation,
whereas a misplaced comma
might be only a one-point
Punctuation Error (or P1).
(See the Framework for
Standardized Error Marking2
and the Flowchart for
Error Point Decisions3

https://www.govtilr.org/Skills/ILRscale4.htm https://www.atanet.org/certification/how-the-exam-is-graded/error-marking/ https://www.atanet.org/certification/how-the-exam-is-graded/error-points/ http://www.atanet.org

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