Latest news with #SaachiSingh
Sydney Morning Herald
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
These students aced HSC English Extension. This is how they did it
Sitting alone in a library, hours after the final bell had rung for the day, Saachi Singh bent over a blank page, pen in hand. Her English Extension 2 proposal was due in a few hours. She had spent five years dreaming about this moment, ever since she'd decided to take the course in year 7. Now it was time to write. 'I had so much pressure to come up with an idea in a couple of hours after five years of pondering what I want to talk about. I asked [the librarian] if she knew where I could find the Young Writers Showcase from previous years,' Singh said. 'Looking back, it was a very serendipitous moment for me because I never expected my work would also be published in that showcase.' She is one of 19 whose work was selected from more than 1500 students to have their English Extension 2 work featured in the Young Writers Showcase, an anthology now published online. The students come from a range of schools and backgrounds. All share one core trait – passion. 'From the moment I found out that English Extension 2 was a course, I knew from that moment I wanted to do the subject because I wanted to write. I didn't know what I wanted to write about, I had just set my mind on taking the subject.' She's part of a rare breed of students. English Extension 2 enrolments have fallen by more than 20 per cent since 2013; however, last year, 1483 students took the subject, up from 1248 in 2022. Passion drives these students, explains Clare Murphy, who has taught English at Mount Carmel Catholic College in Sydney's south-west for 32 years.
The Age
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Age
These students aced HSC English Extension. This is how they did it
Sitting alone in a library, hours after the final bell had rung for the day, Saachi Singh bent over a blank page, pen in hand. Her English Extension 2 proposal was due in a few hours. She had spent five years dreaming about this moment, ever since she'd decided to take the course in year 7. Now it was time to write. 'I had so much pressure to come up with an idea in a couple of hours after five years of pondering what I want to talk about. I asked [the librarian] if she knew where I could find the Young Writers Showcase from previous years,' Singh said. 'Looking back, it was a very serendipitous moment for me because I never expected my work would also be published in that showcase.' She is one of 19 whose work was selected from more than 1500 students to have their English Extension 2 work featured in the Young Writers Showcase, an anthology now published online. The students come from a range of schools and backgrounds. All share one core trait – passion. 'From the moment I found out that English Extension 2 was a course, I knew from that moment I wanted to do the subject because I wanted to write. I didn't know what I wanted to write about, I had just set my mind on taking the subject.' She's part of a rare breed of students. English Extension 2 enrolments have fallen by more than 20 per cent since 2013; however, last year, 1483 students took the subject, up from 1248 in 2022. Passion drives these students, explains Clare Murphy, who has taught English at Mount Carmel Catholic College in Sydney's south-west for 32 years.
