Workshop Week 2026
Workshop Week is an important stage of preparation for Trials and the HSC, providing students with targeted exam techniques. There will be THREE workshops running this year, each focussing on a core aspect of the Trial examination.
Please note that all workshops will run subject to interest. Places will be limited with positions offered on a first in, first served basis, so please register your interest for relevant workshops as soon as possible!
These courses are not exclusively for PB Tutoring students, and as such we do allow students to invite friends to attend.
Comprehension Skills Workshop
Length: 1.5 Hours
Date: Tuesday 7th July 2026
Time: 1:30-3pm
Location: 32b Seidel Avenue Picnic Point
Year Level: Year 12 Standard AND Advanced
Cost: $130* per student for the 1.5 hour seminar, student workbook and at-home follow up support
Details:
PB Tutoring's Comprehension Skills Workshop is a technical workshop, focussed on developing the skills and writing styles necessary to achieve optimal results in the comprehension section of the Trial examination. The workshop covers the conceptual and technical frameworks needed to be able to properly and easily analyse unseen texts, provides skills for breaking down short answer questions and covers the writing structures needed to produce quality responses. It also provides a wide array of tips and tricks to help negotiate the challenges of this section. The workshop is supplemented by a resource booklet, which includes a large selection of practice comprehension papers and sample responses to help students to refine their skills and study efficiently.
Craft of Writing Skills Workshop
Length: 1.5 Hours
Date: Tuesday 7th July 2026
Time: 3:15 - 4:45pm
Location: 32b Seidel Avenue Picnic Point
Year Level: Year 12 Standard AND Advanced
Cost: $130* per student for the 1.5 hour seminar, student workbook and at-home follow up support
Details:
PB Tutoring's Craft of Writing Skills Workshop is specifically designed to help students navigate the complex and unpredictable requirements for Module C in the Trial and HSC exam. The workshop covers important skills regarding the ability to interpret the complex demands of questions and how to effectively prepare and modify ideas for creative, discursive and persuasive pieces in order to make them adaptable to the demands of the task. It also provides a wide array of tips and tricks to help negotiate the challenges of this section. The workshop is supplemented by a workbook, which includes over 70 past practice questions from Trials, HSC and school-based assessment to help students thoroughly prepare.
** Please note, this workshop is completely different to the Craft Of Writing Workshop held in January this year.
Trial Essays Workshop
Length: 1.5 Hours
Date: Wednesday 8th July 2026
Time: Year 12 STANDARD ENGLISH - 1:30 - 3pm
Year 12 ADVANCED ENGLISH - 3:15 - 4:45pm
Location: 32b Seidel Avenue Picnic Point
Cost: $130* per student for the 1.5 hour seminar, student workbook and at-home follow up support
Details:
PB Tutoring's Trial Preparation Workshop is a skills based workshop that teaches students how to negotiate the strenuous requirements of the essay components of the trial examination. Specifically, the course provides students with an overview of the expectations and structure of Trials, and works to arm them with clear, step-by-step processes for deconstructing essay questions, planning responses, formulating argument lines and adapting core content to an array of different question requirements. The workshop also covers the key study skills and practices that students should be implementing in order to achieve the best possible results. To supplement this, students will also receive a personalised resource booklet with targeted exercises to complete in every week leading up to the trials, thus streamlining the study process and allowing for the most effective preparation possible.
*A $5 discount will be applied to each workshop if attending 2/3 ($125 per session) and a $10 discount to each workshop if attending all 3 ($120 per session).