Practice Papers and Short Answer Questions

With Paper 1 scheduled for Monday I've found a great online resource for you guys! Ms T. Outred's Discovery website is an absolute gold mine full of Section 1 (Short Answer) questions and four teacher-developed practice Discovery papers. 

She's uploaded these practice questions and papers as different PDFs but you can click here for a single document that you can download and print off. (All credits are included in the PDF.)

I'd highly recommend choosing three different texts from the short answer questions sections and answering the equivalent questions (i.e. three sets of of three questions) in 40 minutes after 10 minutes reading time. This will help you practice under timed conditions and give you a real sense of what it's going to be like on Monday. 

I'd also recommend doing the practice exams under exam conditions. To help with this, here's the HSC writing booklet for you to download, print off and use. It's great to do practice papers in as close to identical conditions as exam day to normalise the experience so that it's not nearly as nerve wracking for you when you finally get there.

It's all getting a bit stressful for you HSC kids out there, but it's certainly exciting to be approaching the end of this crazy journey too. Good luck, kids. Write your hearts out. I know you'll do great. 

CC