Record of changes for Classical Greek Continuers

New Classical Greek Continuers prescriptions 2025–2027

(Official Notice NESA 30/23)

Effective: Term 4, 2024

New course prescriptions for Classical Greek Continuers Stage 6 (2013) for the 2025–2027 HSC have been published and are available in the syllabus section of the NESA website.

Implementation of the new course prescriptions will commence at the start of Term 4, 2024.

Schools are reminded that the study of texts prescribed for any HSC course may not begin before the completion of the Year 11 course. This exclusion applies to study in Year 11 of this course and Year 11 in other subjects.

Clarification of changes to HSC course prescriptions for Classical Languages and Languages and Literature courses

(Official Notice NESA 19/22)

The HSC course prescriptions for Classical Greek Continuers have been extended for an additional year with some amendments (last HSC 2024).

Effective: Term 4, 2022

Prescriptions 2023–2024

Prose Text
Plato, Republic 1 
Lines 331c–344c8

Verse Text 
Euripides’ Alcestis
Lines: 1–76, 244–434, 507–567, 747–871, 935–961, 1006–1163

With accompanying textbook edition:

Euripides’ Alcestis with Notes and Commentary, C.A.E. Luschnig and H.M. Roisman, University of Oklahoma Press, 2003.

Changes to HSC course prescriptions for Languages and Literature and Classical Languages courses

(Official Notice NESA 27/21)

Official notice NESA 19/22 replaces NESA 27/21.

New Stage 6 school-based assessment requirements

(Official Notice NESA 29/17)

New school-based assessment requirements are to be implemented from Term 1, 2018 for Year 11 and Term 4, 2018 for Year 12. Course-specific assessment requirements are included in the assessment and reporting materials. Sample assessment schedules for Year 11 and Year 12 are available.

New Classical Greek prescriptions and amendments to Stage 6 syllabuses

(Official Notice BOSTES 03/14)

Prescriptions for the Classical Greek Extension course 2016–2023 have been released. BOSTES is also releasing prescriptions for the HSC Classical Greek Continuers course 2018–2023 to align the end date of the prescriptions for both courses. Minor related amendments to the Stage 6 Classical Greek Continuers and Extension syllabuses have also been made.

Implementation of the amended Classical Greek Extension syllabus will commence with the 2016 HSC. Implementation of the amended Classical Greek Continuers will commence with the Preliminary Course in 2017 and first HSC exam in 2018.

Key amendments to the syllabus include:

• removal of information relating to text rotation (Continuers and Extension). This information has been included in the course prescription documents
• minor changes to the way in which the length of the prose and verse prescriptions will be described. (Continuers only).

New Classical Greek prescriptions and amendments to Stage 6 syllabuses

(Official Notice BOSTES 03/14)

For the content of this official notice, see the ‘Syllabus amendments’ section above.

Changes from current exam specifications

There is an increase of 10 marks in questions related to unseen texts (Section III), with a corresponding reduction of 5 marks in each of Sections I and II. Section III contains translations of unseen texts, both verse and prose, as well as short-answer and/or objective response questions based on these texts.

In Sections I and II, there will be no choice in the extended response questions. The expected length for the responses to the 10-mark questions is included as a guide. It is presented as the approximate number of exam writing booklet pages (based on average-sized handwriting), and/or an approximate number of words. Students will not be penalised for responses of excess length: they may write less than or more than what is expected, and their responses will be marked on their merits.