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
- NSW HSC Online: HSC tutorials
- High quality tutorials in most subjects prepared by expert HSC teachers.
- 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.
- Exam preparation
- Online Multiple Choice - test yourself in 29 subjects
- Selected multiple choice questions from past examination papers.
- Glossary of key HSC words
- Using this glossary will help you understand what is expected in responses to examinations and assessment tasks.
- HSC Exam Workbooks
- Board of Studies HSC Exam Workbooks are an invaluable study resource.
- Assessment Resource Centre for Year 12 students
- 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
- Examples of student exam responses illustrate the standards established in HSC courses.
- About your courses
- Numbers in each HSC course (2009)
- Part of an HSC statistics archive published annually. Find out how many students there are in each of your courses.
- HSC course descriptions
- One page summary of every HSC course and assessment.
- HSC syllabuses
- A complete list with support materials and exam resources.
- HSC events and dates
- Event Timetables
- The overall HSC events timetable published annually, of interest to teachers, principals and HSC students.
- About the Exams
- Disability Provisions
- HSC Languages Oral exam information video
- Approved calculators for use in HSC
- HSC Performance Band Descriptors 2011
- HSC marks for each course will fall within one of six performance bands, where the highest achievement is Band 6.
- HSC testamur and Record of Achievement
- Exam equipment checklist
- What you can and can't take into an HSC exam room.
- Practical and major works
- 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
- HSC exhibitions
- ARTEXPRESS, DesignTECH, ENCORE, OnStage, Texstyle, Call Back and Young Writers Showcase.
- Planning your year
- NSW Government School Term dates and holidays
- NSW Public holidays
- School term dates around Australia
- Would you like to know when other states terms start and finish? Find out on the DEEWR website.
- HSC practical submissions dates
- The HSC
- 2013 HSC Rules and Procedures
- Getting ready for the HSC
- NSW HSC Online: HSC tutorials
- High quality tutorials in most subjects prepared by expert HSC teachers.
- HSC practical submissions dates
- Studying for the NSW HSC
- HSC Exam Workbooks
- Board of Studies HSC Exam Workbooks are an invaluable study resource.
- HSC course descriptions
- One page summary of every HSC course and assessment.
- NSW Government School Term dates and holidays
- 2013 HSC Rules and Procedures
- HSC syllabuses
- A complete list with support materials and exam resources.
- HSC Event Timetables
- NSW Public holidays
- HSC Assesment
- Honesty in HSC Assessment - the Standard
- 2013 HSC Rules and Procedures
- Assessment Resource Centre for Year 12 students
- Achieving best practice in HSC Assessment in a Standards-Referenced Framework
- HSC exhibitions
- ARTEXPRESS, DesignTECH, ENCORE, OnStage, Texstyle, Call Back and Young Writers Showcase.
- HSC Assessment and Submitted Works advice to students
- HSC Exams
- Disability Provisions
- HSC Standards Packages
- Examples of student exam responses illustrate the standards established in HSC courses.
- 2013 HSC Rules and Procedures
- Quizzes
- Approved calculators for use in HSC
- Past exam papers
- HSC Languages Oral exam information video
- HSC Exam Workbooks
- Board of Studies HSC Exam Workbooks are an invaluable study resource.
- Breaking HSC Exam Rules – Statistics and Consequences
- HSC Results
- Fast Track to a Qualification - credit for TAFE
- 2013 HSC Rules and Procedures
- HSC Performance Band Descriptors 2011
- HSC marks for each course will fall within one of six performance bands, where the highest achievement is Band 6.
- Replacement certificates
- Understanding HSC results
- How results are determined
- HSC testamur and Record of Achievement
- Judging and applying the standards