HSC Year 12 - Paper 1 Section 2 - Common Module - Texts & Human Experiences - Practice Questions

1. To what extent do texts offer insight into the complexities of human emotion in response to suffering?

In your response, evaluate how your prescribed text presents both individual and collective dimensions of human experience.

2. How do texts reveal the tension between societal expectation and personal authenticity?

Support your argument with close analysis of the form, language, and structure of your prescribed text.

3. “The most powerful texts illuminate what is often left unsaid.”

To what extent is this statement true of your prescribed text? In your response, explore how silence, omission, or ambiguity represent human experiences.

4. In what ways do texts capture both the ordinariness and extraordinariness of lived experience?

Evaluate how your prescribed text reflects the complexities of the everyday and the universal.

5. Do texts primarily serve to question, rather than affirm, our understanding of human experience?

Discuss with close reference to your prescribed text’s representation of anomalies, paradoxes, and inconsistencies.

6. How do texts explore the way memory shapes identity and perspective?

In your response, consider how your prescribed text represents the interplay between personal memory and collective experience.

7. “Texts challenge us to confront uncomfortable truths about ourselves and others.”

To what extent is this reflected in your prescribed text’s treatment of human experiences?

8. In what ways do texts portray resilience as a defining response to adversity?

Support your discussion with reference to your prescribed text’s depiction of characters and contexts.

9. How effectively do texts represent the fragile and fleeting nature of connection?

In your response, analyse how your prescribed text reveals the emotional and psychological dimensions of relationships.

10. To what extent do texts offer a voice to the marginalised or the silenced?

Evaluate how your prescribed text uses language and form to uncover overlooked or hidden human experiences.