Year 12 English Tutoring for the HSC
Our English tutors teach you how to study smart so you can maximise your HSC English marks. Our program reflects our unique insight into the exam technique and study methods needed for HSC English Advanced โ with classes at our Epping, Strathfield and Castle Hill campuses that are text-specific and capped to small groups.
Year 12 course contents
Updated for the new HSC syllabus โ Term 4, 2026At JP English, our comprehensive method for teaching HSC English has led us to achieve some of the highest results in the state for HSC English Advanced. Our advanced tutoring method begins with tailored text resources and student exemplars that are crucial for success โ you will never be short of HSC English resources.
Unlike a lot of other tuition centres, we don't simply summarise and replay the prescribed texts to our students. We use an analytical and creative approach that delves deep into each text, combined with a laser-like focus on exam technique and writing in class.
Below are the English Advanced texts and modules we teach.
We also teach English Standard and English Extension 1. SMS 0410 729 238 to enquire which texts we cover for your child's course.
School-specific classes may also be available on top of text-specific classes, for certain schools. SMS 0410 729 238 to enquire whether one is currently running for your child's school.
The largest range of texts in NSW. We teach the broadest range of prescribed HSC English texts of any tuition provider in the state, backed by an unmatched library of resources built up over years โ so whatever your child's text list, we already have it covered.
Common Module: Texts and Human Experiences
Weekly feedback allows students to perfect essays that draw links between their prescribed texts and human experiences, and unseen text papers are provided to maximise performance in Paper 1 Section 1.
Prescribed texts we teach- Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
- David Malouf, An Imaginary Life
- Henry Lawson, 'The Drover's Wife', 'The Union Buries Its Dead', 'The Loaded Dog', 'Shooting the Moon', 'Our Pipes'
- Rosemary Dobson, 'Young Girl at a Window', 'Summer's End', 'Cock Crow', 'A Fine Thing', 'Child of Our Time', 'Piltdown Man', 'Every Man His Own Sculptor'
- Gwen Harwood, 'The Glass Jar', 'The Violets', 'At Mornington', 'Father and Child, I and II', 'A Valediction', 'Beyond Metaphor', 'The Sharpness of Death'
- Michael Gow, Away
- Rachel Perkins, One Night the Moon
- Richard Flanagan, Question 7
- Samuel Wagan Watson, ‘The Remedy of Butterflies’, ‘Finn’, ‘Let’s Talk!’, ‘El Diablo Highway’, ‘Blacktracker... Blackwriter... Blacksubject’, ‘End of Days’, ‘Addendum’
Module A: Textual Conversations
Students construct nuanced arguments about how respective contexts shape the resonances or dissonances between their prescribed texts. Exam question resources are provided to optimise school performance.
Prescribed texts we teach- Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway & Stephen Daldry, The Hours
- John Keats, 'On First Looking into Chapman's Homer', 'When I have fears that I may cease to be', 'La Belle Dame sans Merci', 'Ode on a Grecian Urn', 'Ode to a Nightingale', 'Ode on Melancholy', 'Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art' & Jane Campion, Bright Star
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet & Emily Dickinson, 'To learn the Transport by the Pain', 'I felt a Funeral in my Brain', 'No Rack can torture me', 'Much Madness is divinest Sense', 'I died for Beauty โ but was scarce', 'One need not be a Chamber โ to be Haunted', 'Because I could not stop for Death', 'The show is not the show'
- Niccolรฒ Machiavelli, The Prince & William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
- William Blake, 'To Morning'; (Songs of Experience) 'The Sick Rose', 'The Tyger', 'The Human Abstract', 'A Poison Tree', 'Proverbs of Hell (Plates 7โ11)', 'The [First] Book of Urizen, Chap: 1 (Plate 3)' & Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
- Barbara Baynton, Bush Poetry & Ali Cobby Eckermann, Inside My Mother โ 'Clay', 'Inside My Mother', 'Warriors at Salt Creek', 'Unearth', 'Eyes', 'Key', 'Jacob', 'Nurture'
Module B: Critical Study of Literature
An in-depth focus on how prescribed texts present ideas relevant to the composer's context. Through an informed perspective, students write insightful essays discussing how texts formulate enduring relevance.
Prescribed texts we teach- William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1
- William Shakespeare, Othello
- William Butler Yeats, 'The Wild Swans at Coole', 'An Irish Airman Foresees His Death', 'Easter 1916', 'The Second Coming', 'Sailing to Byzantium', 'An Acre of Grass', 'Long-legged Fly'
- Louise Glรผck, 'The Wild Iris', 'Nostos', 'Vita Nova', 'Youth', 'Mitosis', 'Harvest', 'A Village Life'
- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
- Michael Ondaatje, Warlight
Module C: Craft of Writing
An in-depth focus on how prescribed texts present ideas relevant to the composer's context. Through an informed perspective, students write insightful essays discussing how texts formulate textual integrity.
We provide
Free unlimited marking service
Students enrolled in weekly group classes can submit an unlimited number of scripts for online marking throughout the term, combined with in-class assessment help.
Comprehensive resources
Students receive comprehensive booklets for their prescribed texts, written by state-ranking tutors, covering key ideas, module links, context, structure, form and detailed annotations.
All classes are text-specific
Every Year 12 class we run, whether one-on-one or small group, is text-specific โ so we provide individualised feedback built entirely around your child's exact texts and school assessments.
Exam technique practice
Preparing essays is just one part of assessment preparation โ we also focus on exam technique to maximise your exam performance.
Student exemplars
We give you additional insight into what's required for top marks by showing and discussing student exemplars from past top-performing students, e.g. state rankers.
Insight into marking styles
We teach English and English only, giving our tutors copious insight into the marking styles of specific schools and specific teachers โ built from an unmatched library of resources across NSW.
Julia's clear teaching about essay and paragraph structure, language techniques and creative writing were invaluable. Julia has an excellent understanding of different texts and what teachers and HSC markers are looking for in written responses. Julia gives helpful notes and insightful personal feedback to each student.
Frequently asked questions
What texts does JP English teach for Year 12 HSC English?
We teach the full range of Common Module, Module A, Module B and Module C prescribed texts for English Advanced, listed above โ including Cold Enough for Snow, Hamlet, Mrs Dalloway, Othello and Pride and Prejudice. SMS us on 0410 729 238 to check English Standard and Extension 1 texts.
How big are Year 12 classes at JP English?
Classes are text-specific and capped to small groups, so every student gets individualised feedback. Large, lecture-style classes are something you'll find at other tutoring centres โ not at JP English.
Do you offer English Standard or English Extension 1 tutoring?
Yes โ we teach English Standard in small groups and offer one-on-one tutoring for English Extension 1. SMS 0410 729 238 to enquire about the specific texts covered.
What is the free unlimited marking service?
Students enrolled in weekly group classes can submit an unlimited number of essays and creative pieces for online marking throughout the term, on top of in-class assessment help โ at no extra cost.
Which campuses run the Year 12 program?
The Year 12 program runs at our Epping, Strathfield and Castle Hill campuses.
Continue your HSC journey
Resources for Year 12 HSC English
A few reads from our Resources Hub to help with your HSC English preparation.
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Text-specific classes capped to small groups โ spots fill quickly each term.