HSC Year 11 – 12: Standard Mathematics 2
With changes to the syllabus, students are required to stay up to date with the topics and assessed outcomes. Tutors at C2C take time to focus on each topic with relevant, time-efficient examples and worksheets. We provide an extensive degree of resources for students to practise and selected resources that specifically targets their upcoming assessments at school. Standard, Advanced and Extension 1 Mathematics courses are all offered at our centres.
Key Topics Covered Our courses*:
Year 11 Standard Maths 2
- Algebra
- Formulae and Equations
- Linear Relationships
- Measurement
- Applications of Measurement
- Working with Time
- Financial Mathematics
- Money Matters
- Statistical Analysis
- Data Analysis
- Relative Frequency and Probability
Year 12 Standard Maths 2
- Algebra
- Types of Relationships
- Measurement
- Right-angled Triangles
- Rates
- Scale Drawings
- Financial Mathematics
- Investments and Loans
- Annuities
- Statistical Analysis
- Bivariate Data Analysis
- The Normal Distribution
- Networks
- Network Concepts
- Critical Path Analysis
HSC Year 11 – 12: Advanced Mathematics
The changes to the syllabus, students are required to stay up to date with the learning and assessed outcomes. Tutors take time to focus on each topic with relevant, time-efficient examples and worksheets to provided in class on a weekly basis. We provide an extensive degree of resources for students to practise and selected resources that specifically targets their upcoming assessments at school. Standard, Advanced and Extension 1 Mathematics courses are all offered at our centres.
Topics Covered:
Year 11 Advanced Course
- Functions
- Working with Functions
- Trigonometric Functions
- Trigonometry and Measure of Angles
- Trigonometric Functions and identities
- Calculus
- Introduction to Differentiation
- Exponential & Logarithmic Functions
- Logarithms & Exponentials
- Statistical Analysis
- Probability and Discrete Probability Distributions
Year 12 Mathematics Advanced Course
- Functions
- Graphing Techniques
- Trigonometric Functions
- Trigonometric Functions & Graphs
- Calculus
- Differential Calculus
- Applications of Differentiation
- Integral Calculus
- Financial Mathematics
- Modelling Financial Situations
- Statistical Analysis
- Descriptive Statistics & Bivariate Data Analysis
- Random Variables
HSC Year 11 – 12: Extension 1 Mathematics
Year 11 Mathematics Extension 1
- Functions
- Further Work with Functions
- Polynomials
- Trigonometric Functions
- Inverse Trigonometric Functions
- Further Trigonometric Identities
- Calculus
- Rates of Change
- Combinatorics
- Working with Combinatorics
Year 11 Mathematics Extension 1
- Proof
- Proof by Mathematical Induction
- Vectors
- Introduction to Vectors
- Trigonometric Functions
- Trigonometric Equations
- Calculus
- Further Calculus Skills
- Applications of Calculus
- Statistical Analysis
- The Binomial Distribution
HSC Year 11 – 12: English
Standard and Advanced courses are offered at our centres. Within these courses, we ensure students possess thorough understanding of the key learning outcomes of the NSW Stage 6 English Syllabus. Students will engage in complex texts and will be tested on their understanding of their school modules. We provide ample time and assistance for students to work on their upcoming school assessments and examinations, providing extensive resources to support their studies. Our teachers encourage proactiveness and build confidence in our students, preparing them for a wide range of activities; including but not limited to, essay, creative, persuasive and discursive writing, speeches, reflections and examinations.
Standard English
In the English Standard Year 12 course, you will strengthen your knowledge and understanding of language and literature by reflecting on and demonstrating the effectiveness of texts, including your own, for different audiences and purposes. You will study at least three types of prescribed texts drawn from:
- prose fiction
- poetry or drama
- film or media or nonfiction texts
The course is aimed at allowing you not only to consolidate your English literacy skills in order to enhance your personal, social and educational but also prepares you for tertiary education and your vocational lives.
The course has two sections:
- The HSC Common Content consists of one module: Texts and Human Experiences which is common to the HSC Standard, the HSC Advanced and the HSC English Studies courses, where you will analyse and explore texts and apply skills in synthesis.
- Three additional modules which emphasise particular aspects of shaping meaning and demonstration of the effectiveness of texts for different audiences and purposes.
Let’s start with the Common Module first.
Texts and Human Experiences, as the name suggests, is common to both Advanced, Standard and English Studies students. It generally forms the content of your first term in Year 12.
The module explores what makes us human, the similar experiences that we share and the emotions that connect us. It aims to do so by deepening your understanding of how texts represent both the individual and collective human experience. Because this is such a universal notion, you will hopefully find this far easier to analyse the thematic concerns of a text, if you can find commonalities between the text and your own personal experiences.
What will I be assessed on?
You will be assessed on this module in school-based assessments, inclusive of:
ONE prescribed text (your teacher decides this one)
A range of short texts (also given to you by your teacher)
ONE related text (of your own choosing)
You will also sit an external exam (first day of the HSC exam), which will consist of:
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The Common Module is huge; in that it can include anything experienced by humans. To narrow this down, it is imperative for you to familiarise yourself with the rubric set out by NESA.
You can find the link to the rubric here: https://educationstandards.nsw.edu.au/wps/portal/nesa/11-12/stage-6-learning-areas/stage-6-english/english-advanced-2017/modules
Remember, your essay questions and short answer questions for this module are drawn from this rubric. It is your holy grail, so learn it well!
Possible exam questions for this module:
Example A (20 marks)
How do texts use the exploration of an individual’s life scenarios to convey important concepts about the human experience?
Example B (20 marks)
Through the telling and receiving of stories, we become more aware of ourselves and our shared human experiences.
Explore this statement with close reference to your prescribed text.
The prescribed texts for this module include:
Module A: Language, Identity and Culture
This module’s content enables you to analyse how language is intrinsic to the expression of both identity and culture. As a means of communicating values, beliefs and customs, language holds an important social function and fosters feelings of collective identity and individualism for all of us.
What will I be assessed on?
Changes in the curriculum means you will only have 4 internal school assessments for Year 12, inclusive of the Trial exams in Term 3. This means you may not have a formative assessment for Module A before your Trials. However, if you are assessed on this module, you may be required to create:
- An essay
- A speech
- An imaginative piece of writing
- A multimodal presentation (you’ve likely practiced this in year 11 as you must do one in Year 12)
You will also sit a Trial exam and an external exam (second day of the HSC exam), which will require you to:
- Answer a set essay question (20 marks, 40 minutes)
Possible essay questions may include:
Example A
Language has the power to both reveal and challenge assumptions about ourselves and other cultural groups. To what extent is this true of your prescribed text and ONE related text of your own choosing?
Example B
In what ways has studying cultural voices enhanced your perspective of the social groups your prescribed text has depicted?
These questions are drawn from the rubric, linked for you below:
The prescribed texts for this module include
Module B: Close Study of Literature
Like its name suggests, this module requires you to closely study one text, or a collection of texts by one composer. The prescribed texts are considered substantial literary texts, which means they may be difficult to understand and comprehend meaning at first. Therefore it is suggested that you read through the text more than once, in order for you to understand why the text (as a whole, not specific parts) holds importance as literature. Therefore you will need to reflect on how the text is constructed, plot, characterisation, thematic concerns, structure, literary techniques and discuss your genuine, personal response and interpretation of the text.
What will I be assessed on?
Changes in the curriculum means you will only have 4 internal school assessments for Year 12, inclusive of the Trial exams in Term 3. This means you may not have a formative assessment for Module B before your Trials. However, if you are assessed on this module, you will need to respond critically and creatively, and by doing so, analyse and assess the way meaning is shaped and conveyed in your text. You may be required to create:
- An essay
- A speech
- A reimagining of your text
- An imaginative piece of writing
- A multimodal presentation (you’ve likely practiced this in year 11 as you must do one in Year 12)
You will also sit a Trial exam and an external exam (second day of the HSC exam), which will require you to:
- Answer a set essay question (20 marks, 40 minutes)
Possible essay questions may include:
Example A (20 marks)
To what extent does your prescribed text use dramatic conflict to engage audiences with its key ideas?
Example B (20 marks)
Effective fiction uses the narrative voice to engage the reader’s emotions and intellect. To what extent is this true of your prescribed text?
Example C (20 marks)
Byron Bay: Winter
When far off, I turn. The sun brings,
because it’s perfect warmth,
the feeling that I wear great wings
while stepping along the earth.
Use these lines of poetry as the starting point for an analysis of how Robert Gray creatively engages with everyday experiences. In your response, make close reference to ‘Byron Bay: Winter’ and at least ONE other poem by Robert Gray set for study.
These questions are drawn from the rubric, linked for you below:
The prescribed texts for this module include:
Module C: The Craft of Writing (Standard and Advanced)
At the heart of this module, is assessing your ability to uniquely craft effective pieces of writing in relation to a given audience and purpose, delving deeply in how you’ve written it. From the rubric, it states you will be required to write in four different text types:
- Imaginative
- Discursive
- Persuasive
- Informative
This means you will need to learn the styles and conventions of all four text types. Alongside these set text types, you will also need to learn how to write reflective pieces which critically justify the literary forms and features in your piece of writing, alongside how it’s been influenced by your prescribed text.
Your piece/s of writing must focus on you as a writer developing your skills to produce an edited, sophistical and refined text that demonstrates flair and precision. This means that every single sentence needs to have a purpose and contribute to the entire composition. There is a strong focus on they ways that your original composition includes a range of literary forms and features such as dialogue, irony, symbolism, rhetoric, voice, imagery, characterisation, point of view, and tone. The original composition needs to have a clear purpose for an intended target audience
Possible questions may include:
Example A (20 marks)
(a) I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky. ..
John Masefield, Sea Fever
OR
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Sir Winston Churchill
Use ONE of the lines above as a stimulus for the opening of an imaginative, discursive or persuasive piece of writing. In your piece of writing incorporate at least ONE example of figurative language that you have learned about through your study of the prescribed texts for Module C.
(b) Explain how your writing in part (a) was influenced by what you have learned about figurative language through the study of your prescribed texts for Module C.
Example B (20 marks)
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- Use the image above to write creatively about a character’s response to entering this unfamiliar setting for the first time.
- Assess how effectively you evoked your character’s response to this experience, making detailed reference to your use of a range of language devices and stylistic features.
These questions are drawn from the rubric, linked for you below:
You will be required to study two prescribed texts from the list below:
Advanced English
The Advanced English course provides you with the opportunity to explore, examine and analyse a range of texts ranging from:
- Prose fiction
- Drama
- Poetry
- Nonfiction
- Film
- Media and multimedia as well as
- Australian texts.
You will strengthen your knowledge and understanding of language and literature, from the past and contemporarily, by analysing and evaluating texts and the ways they are valued in their contexts. Remember that depending on your own experiences, when a text is written and by who, will affect the way you understand and receive a texts’ meaning. You will also be experimenting with a multitude of ideas and expression to become innovative, active, independent learners.
Common Module: Texts and Human Experiences (Same as Standard)
Module A: Textual Conversations
Within this module, you will compare a pair of texts in order to develop your understanding of the effects of context, purpose and audience on the shaping of meaning. Both your texts will be composed in vastly different time periods, whether socially, culturally or historically, but they will generally share similar concerns. For this module, considering the text’s form and the composer’s style is imperative, as is developing your own personal understanding and interpretation of the meaning within the texts. You must ensure you develop your own personal voice.
What will I be assessed on?
Changes in the curriculum means you will only have 4 internal school assessments for Year 12, inclusive of the Trial exams in Term 3. This means you may not have a formative assessment for Module A before your Trials. However, if you are assessed on this module, you may be required to create:
- A comparative essay
- A speech
- An imaginative recreation
- A multimodal presentation (you’ve likely practiced this in year 11 as you must do one in Year 12)
You will also sit a Trial exam and an external exam (second day of the HSC exam), which will require you to:
- Answer a set essay question (20 marks, 40 minutes)
Possible essay questions may include:
Example A (20 marks)
Authors are shaped by their understanding, appreciation and enjoyment of other texts. This appreciation influences their perspective and combines with their context to produce their own texts
Evaluate the extent to which this statement is displayed within your prescribed texts.
Example B (20 marks)
How do the composers of your prescribed texts use their personal, social, cultural and historical context in order to influence perspectives?
These questions are drawn from the rubric, linked for you below: https://educationstandards.nsw.edu.au/wps/portal/nesa/11-12/stage-6-learning-areas/stage-6-english/english-advanced-2017/modules
The prescribed texts for this module include:
Module B: Critical Study of Literature
This module are required, as its name suggests, to engage critically with texts of a substantial literary nature. As the prescribed texts are considered substantial literary texts, it means they may be difficult to understand and comprehend meaning at first. Therefore it is suggested that you read through the text more than once, in order for you to understand why the text (as a whole, not specific parts) holds importance as literature. Therefore you will need to reflect on how the text is constructed, plot, characterisation, thematic concerns, structure, literary techniques and discuss your genuine, personal and intellectual response and interpretation of the text. You will have the opportunity to appreciate and express views about the aesthetic and imaginative aspects of the text by composing creative and critical texts of your own. You will be considering:
- Language forms and features
- Register
- Structure
- Modality
- Syntax
Don’t forget, the word ‘critical’ in this sense refers to the way you will be developing your own response to the text, with a focus on evaluation and understanding of how the text’s different elements work together as a whole.
What will I be assessed on?
Changes in the curriculum means you will only have 4 internal school assessments for Year 12, inclusive of the Trial exams in Term 3. This means you may not have a formative assessment for Module B before your Trials. However, if you are assessed on this module, you will need to respond critically and creatively, and by doing so, analyse and assess the way meaning is shaped and conveyed in your text. You may be required to create:
- An essay
- A speech
- A reimagining of your text
- An imaginative piece of writing
- A multimodal presentation (you’ve likely practiced this in year 11 as you must do one in Year 12)
You will also sit a Trial exam and an external exam (second day of the HSC exam), which will require you to:
- Answer a set essay question (20 marks, 40 minutes)
These questions are drawn from the rubric, linked for you below: https://educationstandards.nsw.edu.au/wps/portal/nesa/11-12/stage-6-learning-areas/stage-6-english/english-advanced-2017/modules
Possible essay questions may include:
Example A (20 marks)
The primary concern of good nonfiction is the representation of truth.
To what extent does this statement relate to your own understanding of your prescribed text? In your response, refer to the quotation and your prescribed text.
Example B (20 marks)
“Pessimism permeates Eliot’s poetry.”
To what extent do you agree with this statement?
Example C (20 marks)
‘The struggle at the heart of A Doll’s House is not a question of gender equality, but of the individual’s right to freedom.’
Discuss this statement in relation to your own understanding of your prescribed text? In your response you must refer to form.
These questions are drawn from the rubric, linked for you below: https://educationstandards.nsw.edu.au/wps/portal/nesa/11-12/stage-6-learning-areas/stage-6-english/english-advanced-2017/modules
The prescribed texts for this module include:
Module C: The Craft of Writing (same as Standard)
Possible questions may include:
Example A (20 marks)
Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Use this warning as a stimulus for a piece of persuasive, discursive or imaginative writing that expresses your perspective about a significant concern or idea that you have engaged with in ONE of your prescribed texts from Module A, B or C.
Example B (20 marks)
(a) Choose a character, persona or speaker from ONE prescribed text that you have studied in Module C. Express the thought processes of this character, persona or speaker by exploring a moment of tension in the text from an alternative point of view. (12 marks)
(b) Justify the creative decisions that you have made in your writing in part (a) (8 marks)
You will be required to study two prescribed texts from the list below:
For a list of important glossary words, NESA has you covered- https://educationstandards.nsw.edu.au/wps/portal/nesa/k-10/learning-areas/english-year-10/english-k-10/glossary
HSC Year 11 – 12: Physics
Our dedicated Physics tutors offer students the best opportunity to excel in the Preliminary and HSC Physics Course. Our Physics Course covers all foundational concepts, problem-solving and analytical skills for each Physics topic. Thorough explanations and worksheets are provided to achieve learning outcomes expected in the NSW Physics Syllabus.
Topics Covered:
Preliminary Course
- Kinematics
- Dynamics
- Waves & Thermo.
- Electricity & Mag.
HSC Course
- Advanced Mechanics
- Electromagnetism
- Nature of Light
- From Universe to the Atom
HSC Year 11 – 12: Biology
The current Biology subject is composed of diverse topics and disciplines. It explores the diversity of life from a molecular to a biological systems level. Our Biology course covers the 8 key modules in the HSC Biology course. We offer a wide range of materials, assessment papers and notes to our Biology students. We equip our students with the skills to solve scientific models and theories.
Topics Covered:
Preliminary Course
- Cells as the basis of life
- Organisation of living things
- Biological Diversity
- Ecosystem Dynamics
HSC Course
- Heredity
- Genetic Change
- Infectious Disease
- Non-Infectious Disease & Disorders
HSC Year 11 – 12: Chemistry
The Chemistry Stage 6 Syllabus explores the structure, composition and reactions of and between all elements, compounds and mixtures that exist in the Universe. Each student is offered extensive programs by our experience Chemistry tutors. The program is designed to supplement the current NSW curriculum.
Topics Covered:
Preliminary Course
- Properties and structure of matter
- Introduction to quantitative chemistry
- Reactive Chemistry
- Drivers of reactions
HSC Course
- Equilibrium and acid reactions
- Acid/base reactions
- Organic Chemistry
- Non-Infectious
- Applying Chemical Ideas
