So, a little bit of time has passed and perhaps you’re wondering what happened to that girl studting SFI or perhaps you’re curious as to what happens with SFI in terms of finishing it off?
We’ve just had our Nationella Prov (end of Feb) for SFI, this test is the end of SFI and comprises of 4 sections, each taking from 15 minutes to 90 minutes to complete in a test environment.
- Reading – can’t remember the exact amount of time, but around 60minutes
- Listening – 30 minutes
- Writing – again not 100% sure but from 60-90minutes
- Speaking – 15-20minutes
The teacher decided who in the class was ready for the NP depending on mock tests, and in class performance. You can find old papers on NP with a good old google search or http://www.skolverket.se/sb/d/2979 here, they are good practice but there seems to be another section which now doesn’t seem to happen from what I did.
The reading was for me okay, though I had to rely on my guesswork as ever for some words. Our theme for the paper seemed to be education, with questions asking about what people in a text wanted to be when they grew up, etc. Listening was only 2 questions, each asking questions about books, the sheet itself looked a lot easier than when they were actually talking, but again the gist was gotten. Writing is the hardest part for me (kanske jag måste blog på svenska?) and our 2 questions were on wiriting a letter and something that escapes my mind now (I’ve slept since then okay!). As ever I was telling myself in my head to keep it simple, but I couldn’t resist trying to write that my dream job was working doing research with Stockholm University on rocks from Mt Etna that happened to have diamonds in them!
The results came a week later, and in my courses case this was a list on the wall with the people who had passed listed by personnummer (or the first digits pertaining to date of birth). I was a bit anxious and suprised to find that a) I’d passed that part of the ordeal, and b) That the girl I sat next to had the same date of birth!
The people who had passed were then listed with a time to have their speaking test (they don’t do the speaking for people who failed the reading/writing/listening to save time I guess), mine was the same day as results so out of the way nice and fast.
Results to this were due to be posted after everyone had completed it, though seems that didn’t happen and now I’m presuming I passed and have enrolled to SAS (Svenska som Andra Språk), but it is possible I failed! I think I’m supposed to get a mail from SFI to clarify.
Anyways that’s how SFI ended. I’ll update again shortly with the next step SAS, though I have my entrance test on Friday so I haven’t actually started yet!
If anyone a) reads this and b) is interested you can catch some more of my writing on http://www.emybloom.com, I’m trying to keep this on the language part of my Swedish adventures at the moment, and that blog on trying to learn other things like sewing and makeup!
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