Record of changes for Chinese Extension

All changes made to the Chinese Extension syllabus are recorded here. Learn about these updates.

About the record of changes

This record details amendments to the syllabus, school-based assessment and exams for the course.

Changes are also communicated via NESA official notices or news items in NESA News.

For more information, contact: curriculum@nesa.nsw.edu.au

16 December 2024

New HSC course prescriptions for Chinese Extension 2026–2030

(Official Notice NESA 52/24)

Effective: Immediately

NESA has published new course prescriptions for Chinese Extension Stage 6 for HSC 2026–2030.

19 July 2024

HSC Chinese Extension prescriptions changed

(Official Notice NESA 20/24)

Effective: Immediately

NESA has removed the Chinese Extension Stage 6 Course Prescriptions 2025 – 2030.

The Chinese Extension Stage 6 Course Prescriptions 2020–2024 have been extended for an additional year. They will be used for the HSC exams in 2025.  

14 November 2023

New HSC course prescriptions for Languages Extension courses 2025–2030

(Official Notice NESA 30/23)

Effective: Term 4, 2024

New course prescriptions Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Modern Greek and Spanish Stage 6 Extension for the 2025–2030 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 applies to study in all Languages Extension Preliminary courses. It also applies to the study of a prescribed text in another medium, such as the film of a novel. 

15 June 2021

Amendment to [Language] Extension oral marking guidelines

(Official Notice NESA 14/21)

Effective: Immediately

NESA has made a minor amendment to [Language] Extension oral marking guidelines for inclusivity reasons.

Original criteriaAmended criteriaMarks
  • presents and develops a logical and well-structured argument within the time allocation
  • supports the argument with relevant ideas and information
  • communicates ideas and information confidently and fluently, with authentic intonation and pronunciation
  • demonstrates a sophistication of vocabulary and sentence structure and a consistently high level of grammatical accuracy
  • presents and develops a logical and well-structured argument within the time allocation
  • supports the argument with relevant ideas and information
  • communicates ideas and information confidently and fluently, using authentic language features to enhance communication, such as intonation
  • demonstrates a sophistication of vocabulary and sentence structure and a consistently high level of grammatical accuracy
10
  • presents and develops a logical argument within the time allocation
  • supports the argument with relevant ideas and information
  • communicates ideas and information effectively and fluently, with authentic intonation and pronunciation
  • demonstrates a good control of a range of vocabulary and language structures and a high level of grammatical accuracy
  • presents and develops a logical argument within the time allocation
  • supports the argument with relevant ideas and information
  • communicates ideas and information effectively and fluently, using authentic language features to enhance communication, such as intonation
  • demonstrates a good control of a range of vocabulary and language structures and a high level of grammatical accuracy
8–9

The change to the oral marking guidelines will enable students with a speech impairment or disability to access the higher mark ranges in languages courses.

12 November 2018

New HSC course prescriptions for Languages Extension courses 2020–2024

(Official Notice NESA 42/18)

Effective: Term 4, 2019

New course prescriptions for the 2020–2024 Higher School Certificate Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Modern Greek and Spanish Stage 6 Extension courses have been published and are available to download in the syllabus section of the NESA website.

Implementation of the new course prescriptions will commence at the start of Term 4, 2019.

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 applies to study in all Languages Extension Preliminary courses. It also applies to the study of a prescribed text in another medium, such as the film of a novel.

14 July 2017

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.

18 February 2009

Changes from current exam specifications

In the written paper, there are no changes in Section I. In Section II, there will be a choice of 2 tasks, as is currently the case. However, the tasks will both require the same text type.

In the oral exam, the two 2-minute monologues have been replaced by a single 3-minute monologue.

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