Differential tests

DIFFERENTIAL EXAMINATION IN CASE OF CHANGE OF STUDY PROGRAMME AT THE BACHELOR'S DEGREE LEVEL

The differential examination shall take the form of a colloquial examination. The aim of the examination is to assess whether the applicant has a solid command of the Slovak language in both written and spoken form, and whether he or she has mastered the curriculum of the Slovak language and literature at the level of secondary school, especially grammar school curriculum.

In the language component, the candidate will demonstrate analytical, synthetic and creative skills, including analysis and production of different types of texts and their oral presentation; information skills (use of language dictionaries, ability to proofread texts, work with literary sources). The literary component will test the student's analytical and interpretative skills (analysis of literary works from a stylistic, thematic and compositional point of view, interpretation of a literary work) and his/her axiological (value) grasp of the text. During the examination, the candidate will also demonstrate adequate cognitive, reading and speaking skills, i.e. the ability to speak correctly in public, as well as memory, classification and application skills (working with concepts, application of linguistic and literary knowledge to specific linguistic and literary analyses).

Scope of the Slovak language examination: linguistic levels (sound, lexical, morphological, syntactic, stylistic levels), linguistics, language and speech, spelling. Scope of the examination in Slovak literature: literature as a system, literary types, forms, genres, structure of a literary work, literary periods and movements, stylization of the text, metrics, standardized works and authors of Slovak and world literature.

The applicant's demonstrated interest in the study programme of teaching of Slovak language and literature (in combination) is also taken into account: appropriate communication with regard to the given communication situation, reading interests, cultural awareness, information skills.

 

 

DIFFERENTIAL EXAMINATION IN CASE OF CHANGE OF STUDY PROGRAMME AT THE MASTER'S DEGREE LEVEL

The differential examination is conducted orally in front of a commission. The aim is to assess whether the applicant has mastered the curriculum of the Slovak language and literature at the level of the Bachelor's degree of higher education.

The content of the board examination is to assess whether the applicant has a thorough knowledge of the basic structure and content of the disciplines of Slovak language and literature, as well as the system and norm of contemporary standard Slovak in all its levels, and whether he or she has a thorough knowledge of 20th-century Slovak literature and literature for children and young people, with an emphasis on the systemic knowledge of literary science and the place of Slovak literature in the European cultural context. The scope of the differential examination is the part focused on the Slovak language, especially on the linguistic levels (phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, lexicology, stylistics) and their scientific systematics and orthography, and the part on Slovak literature, especially literature for children and young people, and the history of Slovak literature of the 20th century.