A Guide to Verbs + Marks: HSC Writing, Directive Verbs and Mark Values
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A lot of students lose marks on the verb, not the content. This ready-to-teach resource shows them how to read directive verbs, break questions down with VCRs, and match their answer to the mark value, using HSC-style HMS questions built from the last 10 years of PDHPE exams.
Every verb comes with worked exemplars and practice questions with peer-marking sheets. Includes a printable student booklet and a teacher PDF to display on the projector.
Print it, project it, teach it today!
Description
A Guide to Verbs + Marks is a complete exam-writing resource designed to help students understand what HSC-style questions are asking them to do.
The resource gives students a simple, repeatable method for breaking down any question, so they check they’ve covered every part and stop losing marks to things they accidentally missed. It then shows how mark value changes the depth, structure and development expected in a response.
A Guide to Verbs and Marks can be used as a full lesson sequence, a pre-exam revision resource, a student workbook, or a teacher-led walkthrough across individual directive verbs.
Built from 10 years of real HSC exams
Every question in this resource is based on the last 10 years of PDHPE HSC examinations, reworked into HMS questions.
18 HMS exemplars + 18 HMS practice questions
Students break down 18 worked exemplar HMS responses and write 18 HSC-style practice questions across all ten directive verbs, from 3 mark Outlines to 12 mark extended responses. Every practice question includes its own peer-marking sheet: annotation activity, highlighting activity, marking criteria and feedback boxes, so students can apply the criteria to real responses.
What is included:
- Full printable student booklet PDF
- Full projector PDF for teacher-led lessons
- Student reflective checklist to monitor progression
- VCR question breakdown strategy
- Guidance on how marks change response depth
- Directive verb explanations
- HSC-style practice questions
- Sample marking criteria
- Exemplar responses
- “Why did this get the top band?” explanations
- Annotation and highlighting activities
- Peer marking pages and student practice pages
Verbs covered:
Outline, Describe, Explain, Discuss, Compare, Analyse, Justify, Assess, Evaluate and To what extent.
Best suited for:
Stage 6 Health and Movement Science teachers who want a practical, classroom-ready way to teach students how to unpack questions, use examples, apply directive verbs and write stronger short-answer and extended responses.
How teachers could use it
- One focused lesson per verb
- Write a response in class, then peer-mark it for homework
- Target each student’s weakest verbs for revision
- Project the slides to teach, use the booklet to practise, and the peer-marking sheets to assess
Please note: This resource is not official NESA material and is not endorsed by, affiliated with or produced in partnership with NESA. It is an educational resource created by Improving PDHPE Pty Ltd to support teaching, learning and exam preparation.
Additional information
| Licence type | Individual teacher licence, School-faculty licence |
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