NSW Education Standards Authority

2019 HSC English Extension 1

Marking Guidelines

Section I — Common Module: Literary Worlds

Question 1 (a)
Criteria Marks
• Demonstrates sophisticated evaluation of how both extracts resonate with
their understanding of why literary worlds are composed
9–10
• Demonstrates sophisticated use of extracts to inform their response
• Demonstrates sophisticated control of language
• Demonstrates well-developed evaluation of how both extracts resonate
with their understanding of why literary worlds are composed
7–8
• Demonstrates well-developed use of extracts to inform their response
• Demonstrates well-developed control of language
• Demonstrates sound evaluation of how both extracts resonate with their
understanding of why literary worlds are composed
5–6
• Demonstrates sound use of extracts to inform their response
• Demonstrates sound control of language
• Attempts an evaluation of how both extracts resonate with their
understanding of why literary worlds are composed
3–4
• Demonstrates some use of extracts to inform their response
• Demonstrates some control of language
• Demonstrates minimal understanding of extracts and/or why literary
worlds are composed
1–2
• Demonstrates minimal use of extracts to inform their response
• Demonstrates minimal control of language

Answers could include:

Ideas from the extracts about why we compose literary worlds could include:

• To hide the truth and reveal the truth (cover and uncover) through fiction
• To offer a point of view, to elaborate, exaggerate
• To understand ourselves, to reinvent ourselves and our history, or to shape our futures

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• To reveal and explore complexities about people and ideas

• To bring different things (time, space, people, events) closer and to better understand
them
• To give licence to ideas and/or adopt disguises to be safe while writing – be outrageous in
the disguise
• To influence the real world by providing a model, a challenge, an alternative
• To bring about catharsis
• To transform and transcend emotions, memories, pasts, attitudes and perspectives
• To confess, reveal desires, or escape
• To impress ourselves and others
• To construct meaning / to make sense of the world
• To understand the process of composing and making meaning

Students may present an idea explored in depth or multiple ideas explored and connected or
synthesised.

Students should present a personal reflection, but the voice might be in a range of registers.

Students should connect ideas from the extracts with their understanding of the module.

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Question 1 (b)
Criteria Marks
• Demonstrates sophisticated ability to compose a piece of imaginative
writing that explores a moment in which the provided character’s past
intrudes on their fabricated world
13–15
• Demonstrates sophisticated understanding of the ideas and values of
Literary Worlds
• Demonstrates sophisticated control of language
• Demonstrates well-developed ability to compose a piece of imaginative
writing that explores a moment in which the provided character’s past
intrudes on their fabricated world
10–12
• Demonstrates well-developed understanding of the ideas and values of
Literary Worlds
• Demonstrates well-developed control of language
• Demonstrates sound ability to compose a piece of imaginative writing that
explores a moment in which the provided character’s past intrudes on
their fabricated world
7–9
• Demonstrates sound understanding of the ideas and values of Literary
Worlds
• Demonstrates sound control of language
• Demonstrates some ability to compose a piece of imaginative writing that
explores a moment in which the provided character’s past intrudes on
their fabricated world
4–6
• Demonstrates some understanding of the ideas and values of Literary
Worlds
• Demonstrates some control of language
• Demonstrates minimal ability to compose a piece of imaginative writing
that explores a moment in which the provided character’s past intrudes on
their fabricated world 1–3
• Demonstrates minimal understanding of Literary Worlds
• Demonstrates minimal control of language

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Section II — Electives

Question 2 — Elective 1: Literary Homelands

Question 3 — Elective 2: Worlds of Upheaval
Question 4 — Elective 3: Reimagined Worlds
Question 5 — Elective 4: Literary Mindscapes
Question 6 — Elective 5: Intersecting Worlds

Questions 2–6
Criteria Marks
• Demonstrates sophisticated understanding of the relationship between
marginalisation and empowerment/aspiration and acceptance/insight and
wonder/being and yearning/beauty and necessity in the light of the
elective studied 21–25
• Demonstrates sophisticated use of prescribed and own text/s to inform
their discussion of the ideas and values in the elective
• Demonstrates sophisticated control of language
• Demonstrates well-developed understanding of the relationship between
marginalisation and empowerment/aspiration and acceptance/insight and
wonder/being and yearning/beauty and necessity in the light of the
elective studied 16–20
• Demonstrates well-developed use of prescribed and own text/s to inform
their discussion of the ideas and values in the elective
• Demonstrates well-developed control of language
• Demonstrates sound understanding of the relationship between
marginalisation and empowerment/aspiration and acceptance/insight and
wonder/being and yearning/beauty and necessity in the light of the
elective studied 11–15
• Demonstrates sound use of prescribed and own text/s to inform their
discussion of the ideas and values in the elective
• Demonstrates sound control of language
• Attempts to demonstrate understanding of the relationship between
marginalisation and empowerment/aspiration and acceptance/insight and
wonder/being and yearning/beauty and necessity in the light of the
elective studied 6–10
• Demonstrates limited use of prescribed and own text/s to inform their
discussion of the ideas and values in the elective
• Demonstrates limited control of language
• Demonstrates minimal understanding of the relationship between
marginalisation and empowerment/aspiration and acceptance/insight and
wonder/being and yearning/beauty and necessity in the light of the
elective studied 1–5
• Demonstrates minimal use of prescribed and own text/s to inform their
discussion of the ideas and values in the elective
• Demonstrates minimal control of language

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2019 HSC English Extension 1

Mapping Grid
Section I — Common Module: Literary Worlds

Question Marks Content Syllabus outcomes

EE12-1, EE12-2, EE12-3,

1 (a) 10 Common Module: Literary Worlds
EE12-4, EE12-5

1 (b) 15 Common Module: Literary Worlds EE12-1, EE12-2, EE12-3

Section II — Electives

Question Marks Content Syllabus outcomes

EE12-1, EE12-2, EE12-3,

2 25 Elective 1: Literary Homelands
EE12-4, EE12-5
EE12-1, EE12-2, EE12-3,
3 25 Elective 2: Worlds of Upheaval
EE12-4, EE12-5
EE12-1, EE12-2, EE12-3,
4 25 Elective 3: Reimagined Worlds
EE12-4, EE12-5
EE12-1, EE12-2, EE12-3,
5 25 Elective 4: Literary Mindscapes
EE12-4, EE12-5
EE12-1, EE12-2, EE12-3,
6 25 Elective 5: Intersecting Worlds
EE12-4, EE12-5

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