HSIE, Years 7 to 10
History, Geography, Commerce and the wider HSIE faculty, with an emphasis on source analysis, structured writing and exam preparation.
The habits that produce Band 6 responses in Year 12 are built in Years 7 to 10. Junior students are taught how to read a source, plan a paragraph, use evidence and answer the question that was actually asked.
Sessions can follow the student's school program directly, target a specific assessment task, or build the underlying writing and analysis skills that make the senior years far less difficult.
What sessions cover
History
Source analysis, reliability and usefulness, historical argument and extended response structure.
Geography
Skills, data interpretation, fieldwork reports and structured written responses.
Commerce
Consumer, financial, legal and employment topics with practical application.
Assessment preparation
Task deconstruction, planning, drafting and feedback before submission.
- Reading and using sources properly
- Paragraph structure and topic sentences
- Planning before writing
- Vocabulary and written expression
- Preparing for in class assessment tasks
- Building confidence before senior study
Material for HSIE
The HSC essay writing toolkit
Question deconstruction, thesis construction, paragraph architecture, introductions and conclusions, applied across HSIE subjects.
Unlock with membershipShort answer technique: marks per minute
How to read mark allocations, match response length to marks and stop losing easy marks in Section I.
Open free resourceSource analysis for Years 7 to 10
A junior friendly method for reading sources, judging reliability and usefulness, and writing about them properly.
Open free resourceHSIE tutoring, Tuesday evenings
Sessions run 4:00 pm to 9:00 pm, in person in the Sutherland Shire or online anywhere in NSW.