BOS 50/09

Minor amendments have been made revising 'tasks' to include a reference to 'audience' in the following syllabuses:

Stage 6 Continuers Syllabuses

Armenian, Croatian, Dutch, Filipino, Hindi, Hungarian, Khmer, Macedonian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish and Ukrainian

Stage 6 Background Speakers Syllabuses

Malay, Persian and Russian

The description of tasks has changed from four elements to five elements. A description of the task element 'audience' has been included.

The description of the tasks should now read:

Tasks can be described as having five elements:

• a purpose (a reason for undertaking the task that goes beyond the practice of the language for its own sake)
• a context (this may be real, simulated or imagined, and may include aspects such as where, when, who is involved)
• an audience (the person/persons at whom the task is directed)
• a process (thinking, problem-solving, creating)
• a product (a result that can be described in terms of achievement of the purpose of the task and in the student's overall cognitive development).

The amended syllabuses will be available during December 2009.

Effective: 2010 Preliminary and HSC courses

Contact:

To assist with the management of syllabus development for Vocational Education and Training in 2009-2010, the Office of the Board of Studies is updating its register of curriculum writers. This register will be used to select writers to undertake tasks at various stages of the year.

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Repeat notice, applies to Year 11 from 2010

BOS 47/09

An amended Economics Stage 6 Syllabus (approved September 2009) replaces the existing Economics Stage 6 Syllabus (approved June 1999). The amended syllabus commences for Year 11 students in 2010.

The amended 2009 Economics Stage 6 Syllabus will be first examined in 2011. The final Economics HSC examination based on the existing 1999 Economics Stage 6 Syllabus will be in 2010.

The amended 2009 Economics Stage 6 Syllabus is available on the Board of Studies website.

A guide to the changes to the syllabus is also located on the website. Available for a limited time is a 'tracked change' version of the amended Economics Stage 6 Syllabus which shows the deletions and additions made to the syllabus.

Effective: Year 11, 2010.

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DesignTECH: Letters have been sent to all nominated students and their schools. Nominated students must login to the Students Online website to submit an online nomination form and digital images of their project by Thursday 19 November. Students will be advised of the outcome after 25 November.

OnSTAGE: Selection letters will be sent to all nominated individual and group performers and to students whose projects have been selected for exhibition in the week beginning 16 November. Schools will also receive written notification.

ENCORE: Nominations will close on Friday 20 November. Selection letters will be sent to students and schools in early December.

ARTEXPRESS: Nomination letters will be sent to students and schools in the week beginning 16 November. Nominated students must login to the Students Online website to submit an online nomination form by Monday 23 November. Final selection letters will be sent in early December.

Young Writers Showcase: Nominated students will be advised in the week beginning 21 December.

Texstyle: Final selection letters were sent out to students and schools on 13 November.

Callback: Nomination letters were issued in September. Students and schools will be advised of final selections in early December.

Students, parents and school staff are reminded that nomination for an HSC showcase does not indicate a particular mark for the student's major work or performance. There are many factors involved in final selection for a showcase event or exhibition, for example: the ability to transport a major project; the suitability of a performance for a particular kind of stage; the need to show a mix of performances or projects that demonstrate the scope of the relevant syllabus; the inclusion of students from locations around NSW. Most importantly, there are limits on the number of performances or works that can be included in any one year. Inevitably, there are many outstanding students who are not nominated or, having been nominated, are not selected for the final showcase.

The 2009 HSC Student Survey is a quick online questionnaire giving HSC Students the chance to tell the Board what they think about their 2009 HSC courses and exams.

Participation in the survey is voluntary, and responses will be kept private and confidential. Student logins are required simply to tailor the survey to the courses you studied and to ensure each student responds only once.

The survey should take no more than 15 minutes to complete.

Completing the survey gives you the chance to win one of three $50 University Co-op Bookshop vouchers.

The HSC Student Survey will open on Students Online at 5pm on Friday 13 November and will close at midnight on Friday 11 December 2009.

BOS 49/09

The course prescriptions for the 2010-2016 HSC Latin Extension examinations can be found on the Board of Studies website.

Information regarding the prescribed editions of the texts can be found in the resource list on the Board's website.

Effective: Commencement of 2010 HSC course

BOS 48/09

The course prescriptions for the 2011-2017 HSC Classical Greek Continuers examinations can be found on the Board of Studies website.

Information regarding the prescribed editions of the texts can be found in the resource list on the Board's website.

Effective: Commencement of 2011 HSC course

Contact
Dr Margaret Silink
Inspector, Languages
(02) 9367 8152
margaret.silink@bos.nsw.edu.au

The Board of Studies joins with the rest of the community in wishing all students the best for their exams.

For general information, facts and figures about this year's HSC, please see the 2009 HSC Media Guide.

Course: Textiles and Design

Date: Friday November 13, 2009, 1:55 PM - 3:30 PM

Candidature: 2184 (as at 1 September 2009)

The paper consists of three sections.

Section I (10 marks) consists of multiple-choice questions, answered on a separate machine-scored answer sheet.

Section II (25 marks) consists of three questions, worth 5, 10 and 10 marks respectively, made up of several short-response parts, to be answered on the question paper.

In Section III (15 marks), students choose one of two structured extended-response questions. This question is answered in a separate writing booklet.

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The Board of Studies joins with the rest of the community in wishing all students the best for their exams.

For general information, facts and figures about this year's HSC, please see the 2009 HSC Media Guide.

Course: Information Technology

Date: Friday November 13, 2009, 1:55 PM - 4:00 PM

Candidature: 1966 (as at 1 September 2009)

The paper consists of three sections.

Section I (15 marks) consists of 15 multiple-choice questions answered on a separate machine-scored answer sheet.

Section II (35 marks) consists of short response questions answered in the spaces provided on the question paper.

All questions in Sections I and II are compulsory.

Section III (30 marks) consists of three extended response questions. Students answer two questions, each in a separate writing booklet.

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The Board of Studies joins with the rest of the community in wishing all students the best for their exams.

For general information, facts and figures about this year's HSC, please see the 2009 HSC Media Guide.

Course: French Extension

Date: Friday November 13, 2009, 1:55 PM - 3:55 PM

Candidature: 217 (as at 1 September 2009)

The paper consists of two sections.

Section I - Response to prescribed text (25 marks). This section has two parts. In Part A, students answer a number of short-response questions based on a short extract from the prescribed text. In Part B, students write an original text in French in response to another extract from the prescribed text. Students choose to answer the questions related to one of two prescribed texts.

Section II - Writing in French (15 marks). Students have a choice of two questions and write an original text in French.

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