High School Preliminary Term 2 Zoom Booster
A Comprehensive Journey to State-Ranking Performance Transforming competent students into exceptional ones
Course Includes:
- Full Price: $999
- Early Bird Price: $839
- Duration: 11 weeks
- Time: 1.5 Hours/Week
- Dates: 24th April - 3rd July
- Access: Computer/Laptop
Term 2 : 24th April - 3rd July (11 WEEKS)
Course Curriculum
Block 1: The Common Module (Weeks 1–4)
Mastering Unseen Analysis & Comparative Thinking
Week 1: Reading for Human Experience
Reading unseen texts conceptually, beyond surface-level technique spotting. Building thesis statements using syllabus language (individual, collective, anomalous, paradoxical). Mastering the PEEL-Plus paragraph structure for deeper, more connected analysis. Embedding rubric metalanguage naturally into responses.
Reading unseen texts conceptually, beyond surface-level technique spotting. Building thesis statements using syllabus language (individual, collective, anomalous, paradoxical). Mastering the PEEL-Plus paragraph structure for deeper, more connected analysis. Embedding rubric metalanguage naturally into responses.
Week 2: Form, Context & Audience Positioning
Understanding how form itself creates meaning across different text types. Inferring context from unseen texts without named authors. Analysing how authors position audiences to reflect or reconsider. Showing how multiple techniques work together, not in isolation.
Understanding how form itself creates meaning across different text types. Inferring context from unseen texts without named authors. Analysing how authors position audiences to reflect or reconsider. Showing how multiple techniques work together, not in isolation.
Week 3: Advanced Essay Construction
Unpacking HSC-style essay questions and identifying key directive terms. Constructing specific, arguable thesis statements tailored to each question. Planning three-paragraph essays with distinct thematic and technique focus. Applying the “so what?” test to every piece of analysis.
Unpacking HSC-style essay questions and identifying key directive terms. Constructing specific, arguable thesis statements tailored to each question. Planning three-paragraph essays with distinct thematic and technique focus. Applying the “so what?” test to every piece of analysis.
Week 4: Comparative Analysis
Weaving two texts into one integrated argument, not alternating blocks. Building comparative thesis statements addressing form, context, and experience. Synthesising prescribed and related texts through conceptual claims. Linking every comparison back to a broader human truth.
Weaving two texts into one integrated argument, not alternating blocks. Building comparative thesis statements addressing form, context, and experience. Synthesising prescribed and related texts through conceptual claims. Linking every comparison back to a broader human truth.
Block 2: Novel Study, Module B (Weeks 5–6)
Elevating Analysis Through Author's Craft & Critical Engagement
Novel Lenses: "Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys
Week 5: Author’s Craft & Textual Integrity
Analysing how a text has been deliberately constructed for unified meaning. Exploring authorial choices in language, structure, form, and perspective. Introducing critical perspectives as interpretive lenses (feminist, postcolonial, psychoanalytic). Understanding and arguing for textual integrity in essay responses.
Analysing how a text has been deliberately constructed for unified meaning. Exploring authorial choices in language, structure, form, and perspective. Introducing critical perspectives as interpretive lenses (feminist, postcolonial, psychoanalytic). Understanding and arguing for textual integrity in essay responses.
Week 6: Advanced Analysis & Essay Writing
Responding to Module B question stems (“how,” “to what extent,” “evaluate”). Form-specific metalanguage for poetry, prose, and drama. Sophisticated quote embedding and critical debate framing. Full PETAL paragraph practice with authorial craft and critical perspective.
Responding to Module B question stems (“how,” “to what extent,” “evaluate”). Form-specific metalanguage for poetry, prose, and drama. Sophisticated quote embedding and critical debate framing. Full PETAL paragraph practice with authorial craft and critical perspective.
Block 3: Novel Study, Module A (Weeks 7–8)
Context, Transformation & Textual Conversations
Novel Lenses: "Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys
Week 7: Context, Values & Textual Resonance
Understanding the ideologies, values, and anxieties behind each text’s context. Integrating context as a shaping force, not background decoration. Exploring intertextual resonance and what endures across adaptations. Analysing how shifting values reshape representation across texts.
Understanding the ideologies, values, and anxieties behind each text’s context. Integrating context as a shaping force, not background decoration. Exploring intertextual resonance and what endures across adaptations. Analysing how shifting values reshape representation across texts.
Week 8: Textual Conversations & Intertextuality
How texts “speak” to each other through allusion, subversion, and reimagining. Analysing transformation as ideological shift, not just adaptation. Building integrated paragraphs that shuttle between both texts. Structuring a full Module A comparative essay.
How texts “speak” to each other through allusion, subversion, and reimagining. Analysing transformation as ideological shift, not just adaptation. Building integrated paragraphs that shuttle between both texts. Structuring a full Module A comparative essay.
Block 4: The Craft of Writing, Module C (Weeks 9–11)
Creative, Discursive & Persuasive Mastery
Week 9: Creative Writing
Advanced narrative techniques: unreliable narration, fragmentation, symbolic layering. Deconstructing HSC prompts and adapting a core narrative to any question. Building technique density and structural complexity. Crafting resonant endings that leave interpretive space.
Advanced narrative techniques: unreliable narration, fragmentation, symbolic layering. Deconstructing HSC prompts and adapting a core narrative to any question. Building technique density and structural complexity. Crafting resonant endings that leave interpretive space.
Week 10: Discursive Writing
Mastering the essayistic voice: erudite but accessible, personal but rigorous. Structural sophistication through thematic spiralling and dialectical movement. Weaving literary, philosophical, and cultural references naturally. Writing that progresses conceptually without forcing neat resolution.
Mastering the essayistic voice: erudite but accessible, personal but rigorous. Structural sophistication through thematic spiralling and dialectical movement. Weaving literary, philosophical, and cultural references naturally. Writing that progresses conceptually without forcing neat resolution.
Week 11: Persuasive Writing
Constructing arguments through logical progression and rhetorical sophistication. Anticipating and dismantling counter-arguments with precision. Strategic use of ethos, pathos, and logos across the piece. Closing with urgency or philosophical elevation beyond the immediate issue.
Constructing arguments through logical progression and rhetorical sophistication. Anticipating and dismantling counter-arguments with precision. Strategic use of ethos, pathos, and logos across the piece. Closing with urgency or philosophical elevation beyond the immediate issue.
The Complete Journey From the conceptual foundations of Week 1 to the final polish of Week 11, this course represents a complete transformation. Be prepared to think, write, and argue at a level that stands out in any cohort.
Support Channels
We offer multiple support channels to make sure you’re taken care of. Whether it’s WhatsApp, WeChat, Scholarly Ask (Live Chat), or a good old-fashioned phone call, we’re here to help you out. Just choose your preferred method and reach out – we’re ready to assist you!
WhatsApp (Instant Message)
Where parents can directly engage with Success Coaches to receive feedback, guidance, and updates on their child’s academic progress.
Scholarly Ask
A platform for live academic and technical support accessible directly through the Scholarly platform, catering to both students and parents.
Similar to WhatsApp, it offers direct support to parents for any queries or issues they might have.
Phone
An option for discussing planning and guidance with Scholarly Specialists based on the child’s specific needs and goals.
Reviews
See what students say about our High School Advanced Program :
Scholarly Student
Steve thank you so much i got into OC i could have not done it without you!!!
Year 6 Student
I have overcome diminishing OC English result of 40% to get into James Ruse with 100% in English through determination and hard work. The main challenge personally regarding the selective test was English and Writing which I overcame with lots of help from Scholarly and Steve. Getting full marks in English and 97% in Maths was mainly achieved from a large quantity of hard and challenging practice which made Selective English and Maths personally quite easy for me.
Scholarly Parent
Hi Steve! It is so amazing that ____ just got an offer from Newington College for 100% scholarship. Words cannot express enough our gratitude from us to you. Since we started your class around 4-5 months ago, he immediately loved your lessons and all the inspirations from you. I still remembered his happy face when walking out of your class on the first day, and straight away, he decided to stop in his current tutor and came here. He becomes more confident, responsible, and committed than ever before.
That is just an amazing transformation . From a non OC kid to what he gets today in such short time, I still couldn’t believe!
Scholarly Parent
Our respect and admiration for Steven as my daughter’s tutor cannot be expressed in words. Scholarly been our mentor, our support, and our guide. My daughter has progressed from being a non-OC class student to achieve three prestigious 100% scholarships to Pymble Ladies College, Wenona, and Redlands. We knew we made the right choice when he stayed through all the milestones of this journey, exam, interview and school selection. She was able to succeed through pattern-based exams, valuable study material, and detailed video lessons. Classes are not overcrowded, and an online platform for interaction was unique and helpful. Steven has played a pivotal part, especially as my daughter had a very little time to prepare for such competitive exams. Glad to found Steven, who has made this dream possible and mere words could never express our gratitude to you. Our most sincere and heartfelt thank you to Steve.
Course Includes:
- Full Price: $999
- Early Bird Price: $839
- Duration: 11 weeks
- Time: 1.5 Hours/Week
- Dates: 24th April - 3rd July
- Access: Computer/Laptop