2026 HSC CHAT (8 Viewers)

[Study to success]

my trials are like from the 3rd of aug or smh. idk what week that is

 

[Study to success]

yeah its week 3-4

 

[ChromeDragon26]

when are you lot sitting your trial exams. my school is doing mine week 4-5 of text term which i think is way too early and were expected to come back to school after to finish off content.

im honestly worried about english, for prelim mod b (we did othello) we basically didn’t even touch act 5 and didn’t have any time for mock tests or anything. we haven’t started king henry and i don’t think we’re going to finish this one in a timely manner either so i have zero idea how we’re going to prepare for mod c in whats effectively 2 weeks (unless my teacher decides to spend weeks 1-2 finishing mod b then 1-2 weeks on exam prep then start mod c after trials?)

Mine is in week 2-3

 

[Dzeeshr]

What does everyone consider ‘trial ready’ for English Advanced / standard ? Being able to confidently sit Paper 1 and Paper 2 with the 3 essays fully memorised? (And maybe a Mod C piece too?)

 

[Study to success]

What does everyone consider ‘trial ready’ for English Advanced / standard ? Being able to confidently sit Paper 1 and Paper 2 with the 3 essays fully memorised? (And maybe a Mod C piece too?)

yeah probably like that

 

[Sam Rowan]

What does everyone consider ‘trial ready’ for English Advanced / standard ? Being able to confidently sit Paper 1 and Paper 2 with the 3 essays fully memorised? (And maybe a Mod C piece too?)

basically, yeah. or at least having 12 qte’s memorised if you’re good at analysing on the spot. others it’s having fully adaptable essays memorised

 

[Dzeeshr]

Danggg it’s actually gonna be a mental amount of work. Not to mention learning how to adapt, and all the timed essays to complete once we’ve memorised. My teacher said you can’t get an A if you don’t adapt to answer the question directly, which is fair of course. But that’s a whole new skill in itself. And Module C, what the? The stimuli are so incredibly broad, that’s gonna be the hardest.

 

[ALolly]

when are you lot sitting your trial exams. my school is doing mine week 4-5 of text term which i think is way too early and were expected to come back to school after to finish off content.

im honestly worried about english, for prelim mod b (we did othello) we basically didn’t even touch act 5 and didn’t have any time for mock tests or anything. we haven’t started king henry and i don’t think we’re going to finish this one in a timely manner either so i have zero idea how we’re going to prepare for mod c in whats effectively 2 weeks (unless my teacher decides to spend weeks 1-2 finishing mod b then 1-2 weeks on exam prep then start mod c after trials?)

well i have two trials so one is in week 8-9 this term and the other is week 3-4 next term

 

[Sam Rowan]

well i have two trials so one is in week 8-9 this term and the other is week 3-4 next term

i feel so bad for you how does it work in your school?

 

[its_ace21]

they are

why would u rather do paper 2 than an open exam that crap was traumatic

 

[Reasonabledoubt]

why would u rather do paper 2 than an open exam that crap was traumatic

tbh the exam today wasnt even bad but sometimes i just reminisce on just writing about random things. when you really think about it and look back like writing a made up story or analysing a piece of poetry was kind of fun and lightwork idk

 

[Reasonabledoubt]

tbh the exam today wasnt even bad but sometimes i just reminisce on just writing about random things. when you really think about it and look back like writing a made up story or analysing a piece of poetry was kind of fun and lightwork idk

i really dont know why i was so dramatic in the hsc wasnt even that deep

 

[tigerian]

What does everyone consider ‘trial ready’ for English Advanced / standard ? Being able to confidently sit Paper 1 and Paper 2 with the 3 essays fully memorised? (And maybe a Mod C piece too?)

as I keep reminding my students . Memorising essays is a risk .


The NSW HSC English syllabus (introduced in 2019) is explicitly designed to reward deep understanding, adaptability, and critical thinking rather than the rote memorization of pre-prepared essays.
While memorization of quotes and techniques is still common for speed, the exam format aims to penalize students who "regurgitate" a pre-written essay without adapting it to the specific question asked

 

[Jaros]

well i have two trials so one is in week 8-9 this term and the other is week 3-4 next term

I know a similar school that literally does this, called Al-Faisal bru they literally do two trials and take the avg of both trials. Ong students must be so fried there, you gotta feel for them.

 

[Study to success]

I know a similar school that literally does this, called Al-Faisal bru they literally do two trials and take the avg of both trials. Ong students must be so fried there, you gotta feel for them.

I swear I heard someone on bos say that some schools do 3

 

[Jaros]

I swear I heard someone on bos say that some schools do 3

absolutely mental who does THREE Trials, 2 is already pushing it

 

[ALolly]

I swear I heard someone on bos say that some schools do 3

the head of secondary at my school and another one of his friends went to this school who did 3 trials and they wouldn't tell them which one was formal so they wouldn't even know they would just pick on of them to be formal

 

[ALolly]

I know a similar school that literally does this, called Al-Faisal bru they literally do two trials and take the avg of both trials. Ong students must be so fried there, you gotta feel for them.

thats crazy but our school used to do mock trials before the actual trials and they used to be informal but now they made everything formal so we literally used to have tasks weighing like 5% for other subjects or 4% for english. now they made the mock trials formal too but the percentages are so weird that they are different for every subject. like one subject weighs equal for both trials and then one is like less for mock trials and more for the actual trials so its very confusing

 

[ALolly]

i feel so bad for you how does it work in your school?

so our school finished all the content for the sciences last term and for humanities they are still doing it and english we're just doing mod c now. orignally the first trials used to be the mock trials which didn't really matter cuz it was informal but now they made everything formal so its also formal but the school makes this one and the one next term is outsourced