HSC French Extension study guide

HSC French Extension is a New South Wales senior secondary course and examination for students who have already built a solid base in French and want to work with a prescribed text in depth. It suits candidates in their final years of schooling who can read a full work in French, discuss its themes and characters, and write analytically in both French and English. The examination has three parts: a monologue in French on a theme linked to the prescribed text, a written response in French, and a written response in English. Each part rewards close knowledge of the text, a clear argument and control of register, so preparation means rereading the work several times, keeping a thematic vocabulary log, drafting practice responses under time pressure and rehearsing the monologue aloud until it sounds spontaneous rather than memorised. The HSC French Extension study guide has 3 sections and about 1,049 words.