Excel in your HSC English.
We’re dedicated to helping you excel in your HSC English. Achieving top results requires focused, personalised one-on-one sessions with experienced teachers — something we take pride in offering.
We have experience helping students with the following:
These are the prescribed texts for the new HSC syllabus, examined in the 2027 and 2028 HSC (students in Year 11 in 2026), from NESA’s HSC English Prescriptions 2027–2028.
Lessons at our Burwood centre or online — see English tuition in Burwood.
Every Year 11 and Year 12 student at Brocklehurst Academy gets access to Edexia, an AI feedback platform for HSC English. Students get instant feedback on their essays, marked against the NESA rubrics and covering the HSC prescribed texts. Its AI tutor asks questions and explains, but it won’t write the work for them.
We teach students to use AI intelligently — for feedback, self-testing and studying model responses — while keeping some spaces AI-free, so the thinking and the writing stay their own.
Edexia for HSC English ↗HSC English Advanced
We offer expert guidance on the following texts, providing comprehensive notes, quotation banks, sample essays, and creative pieces. For HSC students, we exclusively provide one-on-one tuition to guarantee personalised learning and in-depth feedback tailored to your specific needs.
Texts and human experiences
- Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow prose fiction Study guide
- David Malouf, An Imaginary Life prose fiction Study guide
- Henry Lawson, The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories prose fiction
- Rosemary Dobson, Rosemary Dobson Collected poetry
- Gwen Harwood, Selected Poems poetry
- Samuel Wagan Watson, Love Poems and Death Threats poetry
- Richard Flanagan, Question 7 nonfiction
- Michael Gow, Away drama
- Rachel Perkins, One Night the Moon film
Textual conversations
Texts are studied in pairs:
- Barbara Baynton, Bush Studies prose fictionandAli Cobby Eckermann, Inside My Mother poetry
- William Blake, The Complete Poems poetryandOlga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead prose fiction
- John Keats, The Complete Poems poetryandJane Campion, Bright Star film
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet dramaandEmily Dickinson, Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson poetry
- William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar dramaandNiccolò Machiavelli, The Prince nonfiction
- Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway prose fictionandStephen Daldry, The Hours film
Critical study of literature
- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice prose fiction
- Michael Ondaatje, Warlight prose fiction
- Louise Glück, Poems poetry
- William Butler Yeats, WB Yeats: Poems selected by Seamus Heaney poetry
- William Shakespeare, Othello drama
- William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1 drama
The craft of writing
From 2027 this focus area has no prescribed texts.
- Imaginative writing
- Discursive writing
- Persuasive writing
HSC English Standard
If you’re studying English Standard, we’ve got you covered with detailed, targeted guidance on the following texts:
Texts and human experiences
- The same prescribed texts as English Advanced (see above)
Language, identity and culture
- Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake prose fiction
- Tara June Winch, Swallow the Air prose fiction
- Raymond Antrobus, The Perseverance poetry
- Adam Aitken, Kim Cheng Boey and Michelle Cahill (eds), Contemporary Asian Australian Poets poetry
- Colm Bairéad, The Quiet Girl film
- Alana Valentine, Shafana and Aunt Sarrinah drama
Close study of literature
- MT Anderson, Feed prose fiction
- Robbie Arnott, Limberlost prose fiction
- Carol Ann Duffy, Collected Poems poetry
- Oodgeroo Noonuccal, My People poetry
- William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing drama
- Denis Villeneuve, Arrival film
The craft of writing
From 2027 this focus area has no prescribed texts.
- Imaginative writing
- Discursive writing
- Persuasive writing
HSC English Extension 1
Extension 1 students study one of five electives: three of its prescribed texts (at least two of them extended print texts) plus one related text of their own choosing. We support every elective, from essays to the creative writing and internal assessments essential to English Extension:
Elective 1: Confessional worlds
- Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall prose fiction
- Joan Didion, The White Album nonfiction
- Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters poetry
- Katherine Mansfield, The Collected Stories prose fiction
- Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie drama
- Wes Anderson, The Darjeeling Limited film
Elective 2: Historical worlds
- WH Auden, Selected Poems poetry
- AS Byatt, Possession prose fiction
- Edmund de Waal, The Hare with Amber Eyes nonfiction
- Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South prose fiction
- Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World prose fiction
- Sofia Coppola, Marie Antoinette film
Elective 3: Hybrid worlds
- Evelyn Araluen, Dropbear poetry
- Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey prose fiction
- William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying prose fiction
- David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster nonfiction
- Tracy K Smith, Life on Mars poetry
- Christopher Nolan, Memento film
Elective 4: Natural worlds
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Complete Poems poetry
- Alistair McLeod, Island prose fiction
- Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Volume One poetry
- William Shakespeare, As You Like It drama
- Ali Smith, Autumn prose fiction
- Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk nonfiction
Elective 5: Shakespearean worlds
- Sulayman Al Bassam, The Arab Shakespeare Trilogy drama
- Margaret Atwood, Hag-Seed prose fiction
- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice drama
- James Shapiro, 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare nonfiction
- Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead drama
- Adam McKay, The Big Short film
HSC English Extension 2
Under the new syllabus, Extension 2 includes an Author study of one of the three authors below. We provide tailored support for every part of English Extension 2.
Contact us to learn how we can assist you in achieving your best.
Areas of critical enquiry
For their chosen author, students examine how significant thinkers, theories or movements have shaped ideas about:
- The author’s personal, social, historical and literary context
- The author’s experimentation with and contribution to textual form
- The author’s influence on later writers and texts
- How the author is celebrated, represented, appreciated and criticised by readers and scholars
Henry James
- How a changing world influenced James’ writing
- His experiments with narrative point of view and narratology
- The links across his fiction, memoir and criticism
Haruki Murakami
- How Japanese and western literary establishments have received his work
- The impact of his distinctive voice, style and themes
- How he expresses ideas across forms, styles and languages
Alexis Wright
- Her contribution to Culture and Storytelling, and to contemporary Australian literature
- How her fiction reconfigures time, place, history, memory and storytelling
- Questions of authenticity, voice and cultural representation in her work
New: HSC study guides
Our own guides to two prescribed texts for Texts and human experiences, ready on 10 November.
Begin with a trial lesson.
Group class or private tuition? In-person or online? Tell us about your student and we’ll help you choose.