SACE Stage 2 English case studies
SACE Stage 2 English · Put your knowledge to work in context.
Stage 2 English is one of the English subjects offered within the South Australian Certificate of Education, the senior secondary qualification delivered by the SACE Board of South Australia. It is designed for students in their final year of secondary schooling, including students completing the SACE through schools in South Australia and, via SACE International, through accredited schools elsewhere. The SACE Stage 2 English case studies are 5 cases and about 2,012 words.
1The Word-Count Trap in a Comparative Essay
A student drafting a comparative analysis of two short stories is told the response must be 1200 words, with the comparison itself worth 60% of the marks and discussion of each text individually worth 40%. The student's first draft runs 1450 words: 900 words summarising plot from Story A, 300 words summarising plot from Story B, and only 250 words actually comparing the two.
428 words, about 2 min2Choosing the Right Text Pair Under a Theme
A student must write a comparative analysis linking two texts studied during the year. The class studied a novel about migration, a play about grief, a film about war, and a collection of poems about family.
425 words, about 2 min3The Quotation That Almost Fits
A student writing an analytical response about a poem wants to argue that the speaker feels trapped. The student remembers a line roughly as 'the walls close in like a fist' and plans to quote it.
389 words, about 2 min4Adapting a Text Into a New Form
For a creating-texts task, a student must transform a studied short story into a monologue from a minor character's point of view. The original story is told in third person and centres on a father's decision to sell the family farm.
376 words, about 2 min5Timing and Depth in the External Assessment
In a timed external assessment, a student has 90 minutes to write one analytical response. The question offers a choice between an 'open' prompt (discuss a theme across a text you have studied) and a 'close' prompt (analyse a specified passage's language).
394 words, about 2 min