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Guerciotti

Yes, I'm looking for the rubric or grading system for the TEM 4 writing part. I hope to find the rubric for both the composition and the note.

I searched google and baidu to no avail. Possibly baidu would bring a good result for someone less hanzi-challenged than I.

Anyone? Please?

Oh yea, while I'm imposing I may as well ask for a CET 4 or 6 writing rubric. I imagine the TEM 8 is graded the same as the TEM 4 but I have no basis whatsoever for this belief.

Thanks in advance.
G Cool

I thought about this further and thought I would ask for the answers to the next TEM 4 and a mid-eighties V-8 Mustang with a manual transmission delivered to me in China.

Thanks!

randyj · Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 10:56 am Post subject:

Check http://www.krigline.com/TEM4advice.htm for a lot of good advice about TEM-4. I don't have the grading rubric, and I would be quite surprised if any college English departments have anything specific.

Guerciotti · Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 3:42 pm Post subject:

Thanks rj. Great website. I guess the TEM 4 rubric lies in a remote cave next to the Holy Grail.

G Cool

Old Surrender · Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 3:53 pm Post subject:

I've often mulled this myself. I keep imagining some crazy old man holed up in a karst formation near Guilin whacked out on baijiou sets the TEM, CET, and the WHATEVERTHEHECK standards these kids cram for.

Guerciotti · Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 4:25 pm Post subject:

I have a plan.
1) Find him,
2) distract him and steal all his stuff,
3) (something)
4) profit!

My students asked why I don't grade their papers using TEM 4 grading guidelines. Now I know why, apparently, no one does.

Old Surrender · Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 3:45 am Post subject:

Guerciotti · Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 8:31 am Post subject:

Miajiayou · Joined: 30 Apr 2011 Posts: 283 Location: Nanjing

Ha, I'd love to know. At this point, I don't even want to know for my students' benefit, as awful as that sounds. I just want to stick it to the Chinese teachers who are filling my kids' heads with nonsense. The latest bit is that they need a topic sentence for every sentence. So, topic sentence, sentence, topic sentence, sentence, etc. It is absurd.

Guerciotti · Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2011 5:43 am Post subject:

7969 · Joined: 26 Mar 2003 Posts: 5782 Location: Coastal Guangdong

I inquired about rubrics at my school. I was informed the TEM 4 isn't marked at the schools where they're written but they're all shipped off to Shanghai or some other such place. Which probably explains why rubrics aren't readily available and why there's a six month delay between students writing the exam and finding out their scores.

The rubric for the note should be easy since it's a short exercise. I'm teaching the note this week and made my own rubric if anyone is interested. As for the essay, it's just a short four or five paragraph composition - I have one of those as well.

7969 · Joined: 26 Mar 2003 Posts: 5782 Location: Coastal Guangdong

randyj · Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 1:51 pm Post subject:

Hmm. I am also now unable to access it. That's a recent development. Too bad.

randyj · Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 4:34 am Post subject:

Try http://www.krigline.com/tem4advice.htm . The website is converting to lower-case letters, for some reason.

7969 · Joined: 26 Mar 2003 Posts: 5782 Location: Coastal Guangdong

7969 · Joined: 26 Mar 2003 Posts: 5782 Location: Coastal Guangdong

Using the link posted by randyj I couldn't get to any of the info for the note or the essay, but going to the sites home page and then to the site map:

Site Map

makes everything accessible.