HSC Year 12 English Extension 1 2026 Simulation Exam Pack - Pack 1
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Written Examination
2 questions
50 marks
Estimated duration: 2 hours 10 minutes
Reading: 10 minutes · Writing: 2 hoursSample material preview
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The city Archive had been designed after the third flood, when whole streets had lost not only their houses but their names. Its upper rooms were bright and exact. Glass cases held the surviving maps. Brass letters identified each shelf. Every citizen could request a document by number and watch an archivist retrieve it beneath the painted motto: WHAT IS KEPT CANNOT BE LOST. Mara had worked there for eleven years before she noticed that the water in the eastern channel was running backwards. The channel crossed the catalogue room in a narrow stone trench. Usually it carried rainwater towards the river. That morning a dark thread moved against the slope, bearing scraps of paper from somewhere below. Mara caught one against the grate. The writing had blurred, but she could make out a child's careful list: three blue cups, a winter coat, Father's key. “Lower-stack debris,” said Senior Archivist Pell. He did not look at the scrap. “Nothing worth carrying.” Everyone knew the rule about the lower stacks. After the flood, unstable rooms had been sealed for public safety. The diagrams beside each staircase showed collapsed floors, mould and the black teeth of exposed nails. At…
Source excerpt shown; the complete source appears in the purchased PDF.In a sustained critical response, analyse how the extract constructs a literary world in which an apparently protective rule becomes a source of confinement.
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Written Examination question paper (50 marks)
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