For teachers-Preparing for the eAssessments

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 5

MYP5 PRELIMS IN MARCH

When: from the 9th to the 12th of March 2026

Where: SANDCASTLE 

Important:  NO MYP5 lessons from the 9th-11th of March.

                    Students go back to their regular lessons on the                        12th and 13th of March.

                    Official orals happen on the 12th of March ONLY                      for the registered students.

                    Teachers/invigilators

SCHEDULE OF PRELIMS IN MARCH

WRITTEN LANGUAGE ACQUISITION PRELIMS IN MARCH

The WRITTEN prelim exams are summative and for all students. The duration is of 1h 45 min.

They will be conducted in Assessprep and linked to the topic of the unit studied.

The deadline for preparing the Prelim in Assessprep is the 9th of February. Please add Veronica as collaborator when you create the exam in Assessprep and contact her if you need help with the creation of the exam.

The exam in Assessprep needs to have this structure for all languages:                                                          Task 1: Listening (strand i: 12 points, strand ii: 8 points)                                       

Task 2: Reading (strand i: 12 points, strand ii: 8 points)                                      

Task 1+2: Questions on both texts A and B (strand iii: 8 points)                                     

Task 3: Writing (students are offered two options and need to choose one of the two). The word limit per level is: Emergent>75-125 words, Capable> 125-175 words, Proficient>175-225 words.

                                                              

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HOW TO ASSESS THE PRELIM EXAM? 

The Prelim exam is summative for all students and will count for Term 2. For this reason, in order to assess it, we will use the regular criteria from the Language Acquisition Guide as we do with the normal in-class summatives.

What needs to be the same for all languages is the total points for Criteria A and B, which need to be 24 points per Criterion. For Criterion D we will not use points, just the criteria from the Guide as always.

The exam in Assessprep needs to have this structure for all languages:  

Task 1: Listening (strand i: 12 points, strand ii: 8 points)                                       

Task 2: Reading (strand i: 12 points, strand ii: 8 points)                                      

Task 1+2: Questions on both texts A and B (strand iii: 8 points)                                     

Task 3: Writing (students are offered two options and need to choose one of the two). The word limit per level is: Emergent>75-125 words, Capable> 125-175 words, Proficient>175-225 words.

                                                              

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INDIVIDUAL SPEAKING ASSESSMENT IN MARCH

This is the official individual speaking assessment that students take and it is sent to the IB.

Only the students registered for the corresponding LA subject will take the speaking assessment on the 12th of March.

The orals will take place at the Sandcastle campus and teachers will create a task in Managebac for the official oral (using the differentiation button choose the students that are taking this oral). Under this task please put a copy of the schedule for the orals in Managebac as well as information on how to prepare. 

Please find the shecule for the orals here and the oral exams procedure here

INDIVIDUAL SPEAKING ASSESSMENT

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA FOR THE OFFICIAL ORAL

The official oral in March and the written exams in May will be related to these themes/topics.

WHAT TO PREPARE

For the Proficient level, for Criterion B-Reading       there will be a literary text.

THE eASSESSMENTS IN MAY.

The onscreen eAssessments in May are only for the students registered. MYP5 students and their parents have received the registration form in September with detailed information on the subjects chosen.

THE eASSESSMENTS IN MAY.

Below you have the structure and timings of the eAssessment in May for Language Acquisition. 

THE eASSESSMENTS IN MAY.

The global context for the May 2026 eAssessment session is     Identities and relationships.

This is importat to know because Task 3 (Criterion D-Writing) will be related to the global context.

More details on the Tasks.

Only task 3 (writing) is related to the Global context which for 2026 is Identities and Relationships

The assessment criteria for Task 3  (Criterion D-Writing) are these

MyIB

In class you need to practice with the students with a past eAssessment. You can find them in MyIB 

Examples from Emergent May 24