Board Links
Links and Information
The sites listed below provide useful information that may help you in your studies. If you need to know something about the HSC, look here first.
- Study Assistance
- HSC Assessment and Submitted Works advice to students
- Important advice on HSC independent research projects and major works.
- All My Own Work - HSC student essential reading
- Five self-paced learning modules on HSC good scholarship practices.
- Buying HSC resources and textbooks
- A short subject by subject guide to available resources and textbooks that may assist your private study.
- Board of Studies website directory
- Looking for something on a Board of Studies NSW website? This directory may help you.
- NSW HSC Online: HSC tutorials in most subjects
- High quality tutorials prepared by expert HSC teachers on a wide range of study topics
- Exam preparation
- HSC Rules and Procedures booklet (2009)
- Read this booklet carefully as you prepare for the exams.
- Assessment Resource Centre for Year 12 students
- A web-page of useful HSC assessment links.
- Past HSC sample student answer books
- Some books can be purchased from the Board of Studies that also include sample exam answers to past examinations.
- HSC Standards Packages - example HSC responses
- Examples of student exam responses illustrate the standards established in HSC courses.
- Glossary of key HSC words
- Using this glossary will help you understand what is expected in responses to examinations and assessment tasks.
- Online Multiple Choice - test yourself in 29 subjects
- Selected multiple choice questions from past examination papers.
- About your courses
- Numbers in each HSC course (2008)
- Part of an HSC statistics archive published annually. Find out how many students there are in each of your courses.
- Summaries of all HSC courses
- An up-to-date brief one-page summary of every HSC course topics and assessment.
- All HSC syllabuses
- A complete list of the NSW HSC (Stage 6) syllabuses, support materials and examination resources published on the Board's website.
- HSC events and dates
- HSC practical submissions dates
- For all subjects requiring a practical submission for HSC, including, for example, Dance performances, Drama projects, Visual Arts and English Extension 2 major works.
- Event Timetables
- The overall HSC events timetable published annually, of interest to teachers, principals and HSC students.
- HSC key dates
- A page on the Board website showing the most important HSC dates each year.
- About the Exams
- HSC Performance Band Descriptors 2008
- Your HSC marks for each course will fall within one of six performance bands, where the highest achievement is Band 6. Review the band descriptors for each of your subjects.
- Your Higher School Certificate and record of achievement
- What documents do you receive when you complete your HSC? Review them here.
- HSC Exam equipment checklist
- What you can and can't take into an HSC exam room, for example.
- HSC Special Exam provisions
- Through your school, Special Examination Provisions may be granted by the Board of Studies to students sitting the HSC examinations in order to address the effects of a special need on examination performance.
- Approved calculators for use in HSC
- Regularly updated with new models, the list scientific calculators that are approved for use in the Higher School Certificate examination rooms.
- Practical and major works
- Board of Studies HSC works exhibitions
- A page with details and dates of the annual HSC exhibitions.
- Encore (HSC Music)
- Encore, an annual concert at the Sydney Opera House, showcases outstanding performances and compositions by students from the HSC Music examinations.
- ArtExpress (HSC Visual Arts)
- A small website showcasing examples of high scoring major works in Visual Arts along with information about ArtExpress.
- English Extension 2 - Young Writers Showcase
- Each year, examples of the highest scoring major works in HSC English Extension 2 are published.
- Honesty in HSC Assessment - the Standard
- The requirements concerning students submitting their own work in HSC assessment. HSC candidates, as well as their teachers and others who may guide them, are required to comply with this standard.
- Planning your year
- School term dates around Australia
- Would you like to know when other states terms start and finish? Find out on the DEST website.
- NSW Public holidays
- NSW Office of Industrial Relations publication of official state and local public holidays
- NSW Government School Term dates and holidays
- Find out when school terms and holidays start and finish.