HSC Japanese Extension study guide
HSC Japanese Extension · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
HSC Japanese Extension is the fourth stage of the New South Wales Japanese pathway, taken alongside Japanese Continuers by students in their final years of secondary school. It suits learners who are already comfortable reading and writing extended Japanese and who want to engage with a prescribed issue in depth rather than accumulate more vocabulary. The HSC Japanese Extension study guide has 4 sections and about 1,390 words.
01Monologue in Japanese: Listening for Structure, Stance and Inference
The HSC Japanese Extension monologue section asks you to follow a single sustained spoken text - usually a short talk, anecdote, announcement or personal reflection - and then answer questions in Japanese. The examiner is testing comprehension of organisation as much as vocabulary: who is speaking, to whom, why, and how the speaker's attitude shifts.
335 words, about 2 min02Text Analysis and Response in Japanese: Reading Argument, Tone and Implied Meaning
You are given one or more short Japanese texts - an essay extract, a blog post, a letter, a notice, a pair of contrasting opinions - and asked to identify the writer's claim, the evidence used, the tone, and the relationship between parts. Responses are in Japanese.
333 words, about 2 min03Extended Response in Japanese on the Prescribed Issue: Building a Reasoned Argument
This task asks you to write a sustained response in Japanese on the prescribed issue, drawing on the texts and ideas studied during the course. You are assessed on relevance to the issue , depth of argument , organisation , and control of Japanese (range of structures, appropriate register, accuracy).
341 words, about 2 min04Extended Response in English on the Prescribed Issue: Analysis, Argument and Cross-Cultural Framing
Here you write a sustained analytical response in English on the prescribed issue, informed by the Japanese-language texts and ideas you have studied. The examiner looks for a clear thesis , logical development , close engagement with the source ideas , and fluent, precise English .
381 words, about 2 min