HSC History Extension Practice Questions - HSC History Extension (NSW Higher School Certificate, Year 12) Exam - HSC History Extension Practice Questions - HSC History Extension (NSW Higher School Certificate, Year 12) Exam

Question 1

In the NESA History Extension Constructing History framework, the key question 'Who are historians?' primarily asks students to investigate:

The identities, roles, and contexts of people who produce historical knowledge Only the birthplaces of ancient chroniclers Whether history teachers must hold a PhD How many HSC history students sit each year

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The identities, roles, and contexts of people who produce historical knowledge

Question 2

The key question 'What are the purposes of history?' directs students to consider that historical writing may serve:

Only entertainment with no interpretive aim Multiple aims such as explanation, identity, moral instruction, critique, or political persuasion Only predicting stock-market movements Only listing dates without interpretation

Correct Answer:

Multiple aims such as explanation, identity, moral instruction, critique, or political persuasion

Question 3

The key question about how history has been constructed, recorded and presented over time emphasises that historical knowledge is:

A fixed archive that never changes form Identical in every culture and century Produced through changing methods, genres, media, and conventions Limited to oral storytelling only

Correct Answer:

Produced through changing methods, genres, media, and conventions

Question 4

The key question 'Why have approaches to history changed over time?' invites analysis of:

Only changes in school timetable length Whether libraries should discard all primary sources How to memorise a single correct narrative of every event Intellectual, social, political, and technological contexts that reshape historiographical methods

Correct Answer:

Intellectual, social, political, and technological contexts that reshape historiographical methods

Question 5

In History Extension, treating a filmmaker or museum curator as someone who 'constructs history' is most consistent with recognising that:

Historical meaning can be shaped by a range of practitioners beyond academic historians Only university professors may produce history Popular media never influences public historical understanding Curators must avoid selecting evidence

Correct Answer:

Historical meaning can be shaped by a range of practitioners beyond academic historians

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