This skills-based course is designed to help students prepare for the short-answer section of Paper 1 of the HSC English exam. It covers the structure and style of the questions, and strategies for responding to them under exam conditions, as well as developing students' abilities in analysing and responding to key text types used in Paper 1. Each lesson introduces the text type and provides original texts, questions and exemplary responses.
Students will spend part of the lesson completing some short-answer questions which will be marked and returned the next day. Students will also analyse exemplary responses in order to improve their own writing.
Set B focusses on the following:
- contemporary essay and fiction
- postmodern poetry
- contemporary Australian literary fiction
- memoir
- discursive and literary essays.
School | Offered | Reserved |
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James Ruse AHS | 42 | 20 |
North Sydney Girls HS | 28 | 2 |
Baulkham Hills HS | 23 | 17 |
North Sydney Boys HS | 20 | 8 |
Normanhurst Boys HS | 17 | 1 |
Sydney Boys HS | 14 | 6 |
Hornsby Girls HS | 14 | 4 |
Sydney Girls HS | 8 | 1 |
Fort Street HS | 7 | 2 |
Penrith Selective HS | 7 | 1 |
Girraween HS | 7 | 1 |
St George Girls HS | 6 | 1 |
Hurlstone Agriculture HS | 6 | 1 |
Others | 52+ |
YEAR 5/6 | YEAR 7/8 | |
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First Prize | Pranaya Prakash | Aditya Paul |
Second Prize | Richelle Lam | Cynthia Cai |
Third Prize | Jaithra Vasani | |
Highly Commended | Anooushka Vijay Anand
Ojas Kaviraj Prethyun Prasanth |
Aditya Patel Bella Zhang Nathan Song |
School | Offered | Reserved |
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Beecroft Public School | 7 | 9 |
North Rocks Public School | 13 | 3 |
Ermington Public School | 10 | 3 |
Artarmon Public School | 15 | 5 |
Matthew Pearce Public School | 8 | 1 |
Dural Public School | 9 | 3 |
Summer Hills Public School | 8 | 2 |
Waitara Public School | 6 | 2 |
Hurstville Public School | 2 | 1 |
Ryde Public School | 7 | 1 |
Ironbark Ridge Public School | 6 | 4 |
Chatswood Public School | 8 | 2 |
Others | 45+ |