NSW English Advanced Stage 6 syllabus module structure, expressed in Dux teaching language, with text-agnostic question archetypes.
Dux tracks each dot point separately, so “I did English Advanced” becomes a list of specific things you can already do and specific things you have never been asked. Open a module for all of its dot points, written out.
How texts represent individual and collective human experience, and what they reveal about the assumptions and beliefs of their context.
How a pair of texts converse across time: what the later text reimagines, reframes or resists, and why the resonances and dissonances matter.
Close critical study of a single text, including the integrity of the text as a whole and the critical conversations around it.
Composing in imaginative, discursive and reflective modes, and reflecting on the choices made as a writer.
A English Advanced paper is not one question type repeated. Each command word asks for a different shape of answer, and each is worth a different number of marks.
| Command word | Question type | Marks |
|---|---|---|
| analyse | Short answer | 3–5 |
| analyse | Extended response | 8–10 |
| compare | Short answer | 4–6 |
| compose | Extended response | 8–10 |
| compose | Short answer | 3–5 |
| evaluate | Extended response | 8–10 |
| evaluate | Short answer | 3–5 |
| explain | Short answer | 2–4 |
| identify | Multiple choice | 1 |
| justify | Extended response | 8–10 |
HSC English Advanced - Trial Paper Shape — 100 marks, 180 minutes. Practice papers in Dux are assembled to this shape rather than invented, so the timing is training too.
Diagnostic first, then questions written in the shape this course uses. Written answers come back marked against the bands, not just scored.