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INTENSIVE ADVANCED DIPLOMA IN PORTUGUESE

 

The Intensive Advanced Diploma in Portuguese is a one year full time course.

 

ELIGIBILITY

Candidates who have passed the Senior School Certificate Examination (10+2) of the Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi, or an examination recognised as equivalent thereto with an aggregate of at least 45% marks are eligible to apply.

 

ADMISSION PROCEDURE

Candidates are required to appear for a language aptitude test. The test will aim at establishing the applicant’s ability to think logically, to apply simple structures of an artificial language and to write an essay. The date for the test will be announced by the Department.

 

 

SCHEME OF EXAMINATION

 

Paper I	Grammatical concepts and Applied Portuguese [I]	100
	A. Comprehension of unseen passage B. Grammatical Concepts C. Description of a picture D. Communicative Contents
Paper II	Grammatical concepts and Applied Portuguese [II]	100
	A. Grammatical concepts and Applied Grammar B. Translation of simple texts from English into Portuguese C. Communicative Contents
Paper III	Culture and Literature	100
	A. Introduction to some aspects of the Portuguese Cultural History (Between History and Legend) B. Introduction to 20th century Portuguese Literature     Poetry / Short stories / Drama	50   50
Paper IV	Oral	100
	A. General conversation B. Questions on culture and literature	50 50