For HSC English.
Edexia is the only HSC Aligned AI grading tool built specifically for HSC English. Calibrated to official rubrics, it supports every text on the HSC study list across the Common Module and Modules A, B, and C.
Built on the NESA Rubric
Every criterion and grade descriptor from the NESA English rubric is built into Edexia's grading system. The AI evaluates essays against official NESA standards. A team of experienced HSC English markers trains and validates the system on an ongoing basis.
Every Text on the Study List
For each text, Edexia maintains a knowledge base of themes, authorial intent, key passages, and critical context. This means the AI understands what a strong essay about that specific text looks like, not just what a generically good essay looks like.
Common Module: Texts and Human Experiences
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
- Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
- Past the Shallows by Favel Parrett
- Vertigo by Amanda Lohrey
- The Crucible by Arthur Miller
- Rainbow's End by Jane Harrison
- The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
- The Boy Behind the Curtain by Tim Winton
- I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
- Billy Elliot by Stephen Daldry
Module A, Standard: Language, Identity and Culture
- Small Island by Andrea Levy
- Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
- Summer of the Seventeenth Doll by Ray Lawler
- Unpolished Gem by Alice Pung
- Inside My Mother by Ali Cobby Eckermann
- The Castle by Rob Sitch
- One Night the Moon by Rachel Perkins
Module B, Standard: Close Study of Literature
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
- Feed by M.T. Anderson
- Coast Road by Robert Gray
- Stasiland by Anna Funder
- A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
- The Truman Show by Peter Weir
Module A, Advanced: Textual Conversations
- Hag-Seed (paired with The Tempest) by Margaret Atwood
- The Hours (paired with Mrs Dalloway) by Stephen Daldry
- The Meursault Investigation (paired with The Stranger) by Kamel Daoud
- W;t (paired with John Donne) by Margaret Edson
- Bright Star (paired with Keats) by Jane Campion
- Looking for Richard (paired with King Richard III) by Al Pacino
Module B, Advanced: Critical Study of Literature
- Emma by Jane Austen
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
- King Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare
- A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
- Earth Hour by David Malouf
- Selected Poems by T.S. Eliot
- The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
- Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
- Good Night, and Good Luck by George Clooney
Poetry across modules
- Selected Poems by Kenneth Slessor
- Rosemary Dobson Collected by Rosemary Dobson
- Ariel + Birthday Letters by Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes
The Common Module and Modules A, B, and C
Edexia supports every module in HSC English. The Common Module, Texts and Human Experiences, anchors all three courses. Module A explores textual conversations and comparative study; Module B is the critical study of literature; Module C is the craft of writing. Each module uses its own rubric mapping and assessment criteria.
Assessment Tasks, Trials, and Moderation
Edexia is used for school-based assessment tasks, Trial HSC exams, and ongoing formative assessment throughout the HSC English year. Teachers can run full classes through Edexia, then review and moderate the AI grades as a department. This makes moderation faster and gives every student detailed, criterion-level feedback that would be impossible to write by hand at scale.
In a trial across 579 essays at St Bernard's College, Edexia achieved 81.2% exact agreement with teacher grades and 98.3% within one grade band. Read more about accuracy.