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UTS. I did basically the entire Business portion of my combined degree as evening clases and i'm pretty sure all popular majors can be done entirely like that. The only part lacking was lecture recording, but there were more recorded classes for business than with Engineering/IT and I assume...

Yeah, there should be like ~16 years of HSC exams around if you want exam conditions. Not a whole lot of schools offer SDD, so I imagine a lot of the trial exams that get done are from some of the external providers and generally copyrighted. Yeah, there should be plenty of competitive...

What do you want to brush up on? Most students have (or had with the syllabus I had for SDD) the most trouble with the algorithm questions. If you do some basic competitive programming questions (sites like TopCoder, HackerRank, LeetCode, also past Google Code Jam round 1 questions) in...

This. I believe Computing Science at UTS has mandatory honours for example, as it's intended for people interested in research. At UNSW, as blyatman explained, I believe you would pick to do honours much closer to when you would be up to that stage, and there would be a minimum WAM requirement...

UNSW have always tended to offer a very wide range of engineering majors that might be better described as a specialisation of another major, and I think this is an example of that. I assume it's probably an effective marketing strategy as students will see an interesting major in the UAC...

First year would be when most people sign up i'd say, at least pre-COVID they would usually hit the subjects in first year that span multiple majors. E.g. Engineering Communications at UTS.

Yeah, they usually visit campuses and encourage first years to sign up. As would Professionals Australia. You can sign up here, you get a membership card and can technically use the postnominal "StudIEAust"...

IT courses pretty varied, some courses will require maths and others wont. For anything more on the engineering or computer science side, it would definitely be to your advantage to stick with advanced maths.

What are you planning on doing after year 12? Plenty of courses (e.g. all of STEM, certain business/commerce majors) require knowledge from advanced maths or higher, and you'd be better off doing that in school rather than cramming it in a briding course or similar.

I remember that old thread and the one drongoski references about pens haha from back when I was doing my HSC. I think this "method" gets weird reactions as some people assume that you think the battery/electricity itself will help lol.

Not sure about CTF, but for competitive programming C++ and/or Java would be recommended but you don't necessarily have to start with those. The biggest programming competition is the ICPC for university students and it is restricted to C, C++, Java and Python. The other big competition is...

Can confirm, my program has a strict requirement of a 4 year degree. They don't care that 3 years is typical in Aus, UK etc., if you have a 3 year program you won't meet the requirements. For something like commerce or computer science, generally doing honours (3 + 1) will count as equivalent...

Yes and no. Via experience and the analogy established earlier, i'd say a pass at uni would be roughly equivalent to a Band 4 in the HSC. No because without strong extracurriculars getting "just passes" won't usually put you in a good position for paid internships, good grad jobs etc. If you...

As jazz has said, definitely not. The HSC grading system is much closer to the US uni system (maybe HS too?) where A = 90+, B = 80+, C = 70+ and so on. US uni courses are either marked more leniently or curved generously (like aligned HSC marks) compared to Australian universities - As are...

Yeah, this is what I'd read too. It just seemed odd that the error happened to match the early projections - but I guess that's probably why it went unnoticed originally. It's definitely great news for the budget though.

Latest news was that there was a significant error in the calculations and the cost of JobKeeper is about half of what was expected. They blamed employers for filling in the form incorrectly, but I believe the initial budget was released long before any employers got involved.

Wouldn't factor into the decision directly. If anything (given the nature of this website) the closer you are to the HSC in some way, the better. But I think it's generally easier for a graduate to demonstrate the characteristics we look for as they've used the site throughout the hsc/school...