QCE Year 12 English & Literature Extension 2026 Practice Exam Pack 2
A Skill Align qcaa external assessment practice exam-pack PDF delivered by email after purchase, containing question and response book with original stimulus material, worked solutions, marking guide, and diagnostic checklist.
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Question, Response and Stimulus Book
1 questions
35 marks
Estimated duration: Planning time 30 minutes; working time 120 minutes
Reading: 30 minutes planning · Writing: 120 minutesSample material preview
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STIMULUS 1 - SALT IN THE APRICOT JAM On the hottest morning of February, Mariam taught her grandson to ruin the fruit. "Not ruin," Sami corrected, reading from the recipe card. "Preserve." The card was older than either of them expected paper to survive. Its corners had softened into cloth. Three languages leaned across it in different inks, arguing over quantities. Mariam tipped the apricots into the copper pan. "Your great-grandmother wrote cups because the new country sold no measure she trusted." Sami held up the digital scale. "Grams don't need trust." "Then why do they change when you breathe?" The display flickered between 999 and 1000. Outside, heat pressed the garden flat. The apricot tree had produced only seven fruit that year, each one guarded from birds with a paper bag. Most of the fruit in the pan came from the supermarket and wore small stickers naming a valley neither of them had seen. Mariam asked for salt. Sami checked the card twice. "It says sugar." "It also says salt where the writing has faded." "That's a stain." She touched the pale bloom beside the word until it disappeared beneath her finger. "Some stains give instructions." He added a pinch.…
Source excerpt shown; the complete source appears in the purchased PDF.Apply aspects of text-centred and world-context-centred theoretical approaches to interpret and analyse one stimulus in depth and produce a theorised close reading.
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Question, Response and Stimulus Book question paper (35 marks)
Question, Response and Stimulus Book worked solutions and marking guide
Pathway-specific marking guide with criterion decisions and holistic score bands
Original Skill Align sample responses for every extended-response section
Diagnostic checklist for review after marking
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