NSW English Standard 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 Standard” 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 what it is to be human: individual and collective experience, and the assumptions about the world that shape the telling.
How language constitutes identity and culture, including the ways a text positions readers to see a culture from inside or outside.
Detailed study of one text: how its language, form and structure work together, and how it holds up as a whole.
Composing imaginative, persuasive and reflective writing, and explaining the choices made, with an emphasis on clarity of purpose.
A English Standard 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 | Multiple choice | 1 |
| 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 |
| explain | Short answer | 3–4 |
| identify | Multiple choice | 1 |
| justify | Short answer | 3–4 |
HSC English Standard - 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.