HSC Year 12 English Extension 1 2026 Simulation Exam Pack - Pack 4
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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 Museum of Useful Things opened at nine and closed at five. Between those hours, visitors moved through twelve numbered rooms in the order printed on their tickets. Room One contained the first tool. Room Twelve contained the last machine. Every object stood in a square of light beside a card explaining what problem it had solved. Sima worked after closing. Her title was Assistant Conservator of Surfaces, which meant she removed the evidence that objects continued to exist after their usefulness had been explained. She dusted the loom, polished the navigation instruments and wiped fingerprints from the glass around the model city. At night, the rooms made different collections. Dust gathered most thickly around objects visitors leaned towards but did not understand. The model city's tallest tower cast a shadow shaped like a missing district. Behind the cabinet of agricultural tools, the wall was paler where another label had once been fixed. Sima began recording these things in an unused ledger. 13.1 - Outline of removed label, Room Four. 13.2 - Thread caught beneath loom, colour not represented in display. 13.3 - Repeated handprint at child height on glass facing blank…
Source excerpt shown; the complete source appears in the purchased PDF.Use the extract as a lens for a sustained critical response about how literary worlds train readers to notice what their inhabitants, narrators or cultures overlook. Refer closely to the extract and at least ONE other literary text.
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Written Examination question paper (50 marks)
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Diagnostic checklist for review after marking
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