Year 12 Sample HSC Questions Standard English Question 8 — Elective 1: The Global Village (20 marks) ‘An individual’s attitudes and beliefs can be challenged by the experience of living in the global village.’ Discuss this view with reference to your prescribed text and at least ONE other related text of your own choosing. The prescribed texts are: • Prose Fiction – Christopher Koch, The Year of Living Dangerously • Drama – Nick Enright, A Man with Five Children • Film – Rob Sitch, The Castle • Multimedia –Wikimedia, Wikipedia – The Free Encyclopedia  Welcome page  Main portal  Community portal  Information  Wikimedia  Wiki community  How to edit a page  Help Contact Details 0410608376 P.O Box 128 Caringbah 2229 Centre: Suite 1 305 Princess Highway Carlton Advanced English Question 3 — Prose Fiction (20 marks) (a) Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Discuss how Haddon’s perspective on personal challenges is conveyed in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. In your response, make detailed reference to your prescribed text. OR (b) Jane Yolen, Briar Rose Discuss how Yolen’s perspective on personal discovery is conveyed in Briar Rose. In your response, make detailed reference to your prescribed text. OR (c) David Malouf, Fly Away Peter Discuss how Malouf’s perspective on personal hardship is conveyed in Fly Away Peter. In your response, make detailed reference to your prescribed text. Contact Details 0410608376 P.O Box 128 Caringbah 2229 Centre: Suite 1 305 Princess Highway Carlton Extension English Elective 3: Science Fiction — Attempt Questions 1 and 2 The prescribed texts are: • Prose Fiction • Film – – – – Frank Herbert, Dune William Gibson, Neuromancer Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey Question 1 (25 marks) Significant texts in any genre arise from specific social and cultural conditions and possess an enduring relevance. Write an essay in which you explore the extent to which this is true of the texts you have studied in your elective. In your response, refer to TWO prescribed texts AND texts of your own choosing. Question 2 (25 marks) Compose a piece of original imaginative writing using a setting from one of your prescribed texts and incorporating these three terms: a promise a stone silence Your response should draw on your knowledge and understanding of the elective you have studied. Contact Details 0410608376 P.O Box 128 Caringbah 2229 Centre: Suite 1 305 Princess Highway Carlton General Mathematics A new phone was purchased for $725 which included 10% GST. What was the price of the phone without GST, correct to the nearest cent? (A) $65.91 (B) $72.50 (C) $652.50 (D) $659.09 Mathematics (a) Susannah is training for a fun run by running every week for 26 weeks. She runs 1 km in the first week and each week after that she runs 750 m more than the previous week, until she reaches 10 km in a week. She then continues to run 10 km each week. (i) How far does Susannah run in the 9th week? (ii) In which week does she first run 10 km? (iii) What is the total distance that Susannah runs in 26 weeks? 1 1 2 Contact Details 0410608376 P.O Box 128 Caringbah 2229 Centre: Suite 1 305 Princess Highway Carlton Mathematics Extension 1 Solve ln(x6)2lnx. 3 Five ordinary six-sided dice are thrown. 1 What is the probability that exactly two of the dice land showing a four? Leave your answer in unsimplified form. The mass M of a whale is modelled by M 36 35.5e kt , where M is measured in tonnes, t is the age of the whale in years and k is a positive constant. (i) Show that the rate of growth of the mass of the whale is given by the differential equation 1 dM k36M. dt (ii) When the whale is 10 years old its mass is 20 tonnes. 2 Find the value of k, correct to three decimal places. 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