NSW Modern History Stage 6 syllabus core and topic structure, expressed in Dux teaching language.
Dux tracks each dot point separately, so “I did Modern History” 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 regimes acquire and hold power, and the conditions under which authority is accepted rather than imposed.
Depth study of a single nation's transformation, its causes and consequences, and the historiographical debate about them.
The causes and course of conflict, the experience of those involved, and the attempts to build peace that followed.
Revolutions and rights movements, the forces that produced them, and what changed and what did not.
A Modern History 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 |
| assess | Multiple choice | 1 |
| assess | Problem solving | 4–6 |
| assess | Short answer | 5–7 |
| classify | Multiple choice | 1 |
| compare | Short answer | 5–7 |
| evaluate | Short answer | 4–6 |
| evaluate | Extended response | 8–10 |
| explain | Short answer | 4–6 |
| identify | Multiple choice | 1 |
HSC Modern History - 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.