2027 HSC English prescribed texts and what changed

The 2027 HSC is the first exam on NESA's new English syllabus. Modules A, B and C are replaced by focus areas: Texts and human experiences, Textual conversations (Advanced), Language, identity and culture (Standard), Critical study of literature (Advanced), Close study of literature (Standard) and The craft of writing.

Texts and human experiences

Cold Enough for Snow, An Imaginary Life, Henry Lawson short stories, Rosemary Dobson, Gwen Harwood, Love Poems and Death Threats, Question 7, Away and One Night the Moon.

Textual conversations (Advanced)

Bush Studies and Inside My Mother; Blake and Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead; Keats and Bright Star; Hamlet and Emily Dickinson; Julius Caesar and The Prince; Mrs Dalloway and The Hours.

Critical study of literature (Advanced)

Pride and Prejudice, Warlight, Louise Glück, W. B. Yeats, Othello and King Henry IV, Part 1.

Language, identity and culture (Standard)

The Namesake, Swallow the Air, The Perseverance, Contemporary Asian Australian Poets, The Quiet Girl and Shafana and Aunt Sarrinah.

Close study of literature (Standard)

Feed, Limberlost, Carol Ann Duffy, My People, Much Ado About Nothing and Arrival.