2007 HSC English (Advanced) standards package

These samples of student responses from the 2007 HSC English examination supplement the existing English (Advanced) standards packages. This material has been developed to assist teachers and students to have a fuller understanding of performance in English (Advanced). The selected student responses relate to the following three prescribed texts:

• Cloudstreet (Tim Winton)
• Prescribed poems from Gwen Harwood, Selected Poems: A New Edition
• Prescribed poems from W.B.Yeats: Poems selected by Seamus Heaney

The material has been selected from responses to the 2007 HSC English (Advanced) Paper 2, Module B: Critical Study of Texts, Questions 4(c), 7(a) and 7(b). For each question, nine responses have been chosen, three each representing performance at the borderlines between Bands 5 and 6, Bands 4 and 5, and Bands 3 and 4.

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2007 HSC English (Standard) standards package

These samples of student responses from the 2007 HSC English examination supplement the existing English (Standard) standards package. This material has been developed to assist teachers and students to have a fuller understanding of performance in English (Standard). The selected student responses relate to the following two prescribed texts:

• Billy Elliot (Stephen Daldry)
• Educating Rita (Willy Russell)

The material has been selected from responses to the 2007 HSC English (Standard) Paper 2, Module C: Texts and Society, Question 10(a) and (b). Nine responses have been chosen for each text, three each representing performance at the borderlines between Bands 5 and 6, Bands 4 and 5, and Bands 3 and 4.

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Minister for Education and Training, John Della Bosca, has announced a plan by the Iemma Government to ensure every NSW student studies more Australian books, poems and plays will soon be open to comment by teachers and education groups.

The plan follows a request by the Minister to the NSW Board of Studies to explore ways to improve the presence of Australian literature in the English curriculum.

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English (ESL) HSC examination Section I Question 1 Answer Booklet

BOS 23/08 (Vol 17 No 2)

Teachers and students of the English (ESL) HSC course are advised that from the 2008 HSC examination, there will be a Section I Question 1 Answer Booklet attached to the examination paper.

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This document replaces the previous English (ESL) document Studying in English, for the Higher School Certificate 2009—2012.

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Board Bulletin (Vol 17 No 1)

Teachers of English are reminded that the Area of Study stimulus booklet for the HSC English (Standard, Advanced and English as a Second Language) courses has been withdrawn as a prescribed text for the 2008 HSC onwards. This was previously communicated to schools via:
• fax stream to principals in May 2006
• Official Notice BOS 40/06 (Board Bulletin Vol 15 No 4, 2006), and
• Official Notice BOS 34/07 (Board Bulletin Vol 16 No 3, 2007).

The stimulus booklet was an introductory support document intended to assist teachers in implementing the Area of Study in the initial years of the new HSC. Schools were advised at the time that the Board would review use of the stimulus booklet.

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The following publications have been added to the Board of studies website in February 2008:

Notes from the Marking Centre (including Marking Guidelines) for the following HSC 2007 Examination papers:

• Classical Hebrew
• Engineering Studies
• English Extension 1 and 2
• French
• Indonesian Background Speakers, Beginners, Continuers and Extension
• Japanese
• Retail Operations

The following publications have been added to the Board of studies website in February 2008:

Notes from the Marking Centre (including Marking Guidelines) for the following HSC 2007 Examination papers:

• Agriculture
• Ancient History
• Chinese Beginners, Continuers and Extension
• Construction
• Earth and Environmental Science
• English (ESL)
• Information Technology
• Korean Background Speakers
• Metal and Engineering
• Modern Greek Beginners, Continuers and Extension

The following 2007 School Certificate test papers are now available for download:

• English-literacy
• Mathematics
• Australian History, Geography, Civics and Citizenship

How you can contribute work samples

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For Years K-6 (Stages 1, 2 & 3)

Since the last update of this site in September 2007, we have added new activities for Stage 2 English, Creative Arts and PDHPE and Stage 3 English, Creative Arts and PDHPE. We have also added additional aligned work samples across the following Key Learning Areas in K–6.

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