New State Exam Format

The new state exam format applies to daily students who started to study after 2012 and combined students who started to study after 2014.

The student chooses one literary topic (area) of all possible ones which she/he have encountered during Master studies. The student will present the topic (area) orally, trying to express her/his individual perspective to the topic, with the support of three to five secondary academic sources.

In required time at least four weeks before the state exam, students are asked to submit a preparation sheet. It includes: the topic of the presentation, an abstract of the preparation, and annotated bibliography of secondary sources. The preparation sheet will be submitted in person or by e-mail to Jana Popelkova. It needs to include your name.

For details, see the file on details on the Master’s State Exams.

You can also look at a sample assessment rubric along with two sample projects that meet the requirements for an A, one on Mourning Dove and one on Woolf.