HSC English Extension 1 Exams and Practice Papers
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HSC English Extension 1 practice packs
The selected practice inventory is shown below: 5 individual packs · 1 School practice bundle. Full resources provide practice across Literary worlds and Elective 1: Confessional worlds. Check the coverage and required texts below. Check current sample and purchase availability on each card.
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Five taught workshops, ninety independent reading and writing tasks, five additional worked examples, selected-skill checks, mixed revision and a review sheet.
90 practice questions · 287 practice marks · 2 PDFs
2027 edition · Year 12
Syllabus alignment: NESA English Extension 11–12 Syllabus (2024), Year 12 Extension 1; first HSC 2027; prescriptions 2027–2030
Topic practice across 5 chapter groups in Literary worlds and Elective 1: Confessional worlds.
Syllabus baseline checked .Coverage and texts
Coverage: Literary worlds and Elective 1: Confessional worlds. Other electives and English Extension 2 are not covered.
Texts used: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall; The Glass Menagerie; Mansfield's prescribed story selection; and the 1818 Frankenstein as a related text. Bring your own study copies; the literary works are not included.
Format: Untimed written practice, without digital examination or audio/video simulation.
The free sample uses supplied original material and requires no set texts.
Three additional original literary-world tasks on address, interpretation and deliberate revision, with separate indicative responses.
Free sample
Examine address, responsibility and the relationship offered by an account across the declared Confessional worlds programme.
A$35.00
Read temporal disclosure and changing knowledge; distinguish a later account from the action it interprets.
A$35.00
Explore the material conditions of expression, access and ownership without treating possession as complete authority.
A$35.00
Test genre contracts and expected endings through critical reading and purposeful original literary writing.
A$35.00
School Practice Bundle
Four original practice resources for Year 12 HSC English Extension 1, covering Literary worlds and Elective 1: Confessional worlds. Each includes examples, topic practice, two course checks and mixed revision.
HSC English Extension 1 2027 School Practice Bundle 1–4
2027 edition · v1.0 · Year 12 · Named school and campus licenceOne named-school bundle · 360 questions · 1,133 practice marks · eight booklets.
A$299.00
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