Chinese Extension
Syllabus
- Tracked passages of syllabus showing amendments (PDF, 1 page, 60 KB)
- Published 8 September 2008
Syllabus introduction:
Acrobat PDF
3 pages (68k)
MS Word 97 file
3 pages (136k)
Revised Syllabus:
Acrobat PDF
26 pages (276k)
Effective for the HSC Exam in 2009
Published 30 July 2008
- 2010 HSC and beyond
- Chinese Extension Syllabus (content unchanged)
- Published 25 September 2009
- Also available inWord format
- Published 24 September 2009
Assessment and examination materials
- HSC Languages Courses – Oral Examination
- General advice for teachers and students
- Word version
- Published 1 August 2008
- Languages Extension courses – Oral Examination
- General Information for Teachers
- Word version
- Published 1 August 2008
Specimen HSC Examination Resources:
Acrobat PDF
21 pages (1mb)
Examination Rubrics
Acrobat PDF
1 page (28k)
HSC Languages Extension Marking Guidelines – Oral Examination
- 2010 HSC and beyond
- Assessment and reporting in Chinese Extension
- Published 15 September 2009
- Chinese Extension – sample assessment schedule
- Published 28 September 2009
- Information regarding the 2010 HSC examination in Chinese Extension – coming soon
- Chinese Extension – Summary of HSC examination specifications and assessment requirements
- Published 18 February 2009
- Chinese Extension – HSC examination rubrics – to be published early Term 1, 2010
Other support materials
- Course Prescriptions 2009-2013
- PDF (5 pages, 136 KB)
- Word (5 pages, 155 KB)
- (Some text may display incorrectly on platforms that do not have Chinese font installed)
- Published 31 October 2007
- Summary of changes to revised syllabus
- Published 30 July 2008
- Text Types
- Amendments to the list of text types for productive use (Section 8.3) have been made to ensure that there is no duplication of text types that are prescribed in the Continuers syllabus.
- ‘Narrative account’ has been glossed to clarify ways in which this text type can be addressed.
- HSC External Examination Specifications
- The inclusion of a wider range of texts for productive use (Section 11.6 HSC External Examination Specifications Section I: Response to prescribed text Part B) allows more opportunity for students to engage with Chinese.
- (See Official Notice BOS 32/08, Vol 17 No 3)
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