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You can take five years to accumulate enough units for an HSC so there are a number of students across the state who wouldn't be doing a full load this year. One boy at my school, for instance, is in his third year of Year 12 - and has been accumulating his HSC over these three years with two...

Not every school will allow that however.

Another thing that teachers do - as a way of identifying 'suspect' works is to have you write quite a bit in class that they read so they know your style of writing and then when something doesn't 'gel' they do the various checks.

Re: Does the Board of Studies actually use the assessment mark submitted by the schoo The student with the school sent in mark of 70 would end up with a final HSC mark of 100 - because they were the top student at their school and so earned the top exam mark. That top exam mark becomes the top...

I have had a student drop a course two days before the HSC exam with no problems for the BOS.

I have taught students doing HSC courses through TAFE and they have continued with classes after the Trials. Frequently they don't even have the course finished by the Trials.

Why are you only going to have 24 weeks? The HSC exams are only held once a year - starting in October - which is around 37 weeks from now. If you start studying now your 24 weeks will be up in July.

How do you know what the 2015 cut-off is when the offers haven't been made yet? If it is a course that has a stated 'minimum' cut-off and you are above that cut-off then there is still a chance you won't get in. If the course has say 20 places and 20 people with a higher ATAR than yours, even...

The content has to be 'age-appropriate' so look at the ratings of videos etc today and keep within those ratings e.g. no X or R rated stuff and even think carefully about MA stuff. The age of the actors also has to be considered for the content e.g. if you are using younger actors the content...

As an HSC marker of over 20 years (not in English though) I find this assertion rather disturbing. In MH we read EVERYTHING and mark on the overall work not just the start and I can't imagine English markers being any different. Now that markers are being marker per script at home there could...

Light blue pens however can almost disappear into the page which is why I advocate black. The actual scanned pages come through blue anyway so the dark blue and black is already losing colour to a mid-blue but the lighter blue and other colour pens simply don't scan very well. It is...

Light blue pens however can almost disappear into the page which is why I advocate black. The actual scanned pages come through blue anyway so the dark blue and black is already losing colour to a mid-blue but the lighter blue and other colour pens simply don't scan very well. It is important...

May I add the views of an HSC marker - please use black in exams that are going to be scanned as blue often isn't picked up all that clearly and hence the scripts become difficult, if not impossible, to read. As markers are being paid 'by the script' when marking 'online' and not by the number...

Please note - the History notes definitely and some of the others would be out of date as the new NSW Syllabus for the National Curriculum applies for the first time to this year's Year 10. In History for instance the only compulsory topic is Changing Rights and Freedoms - Aborigines and Torres...

I think this varies from school to school. Whenever I have had a student doing a subject through OTEN or any other out of school set up where they also needed an in-school contact my school has ensured that the relevant teacher is giving support and guidance as well so that the student is...

If you work was illegible and wasn't able to be read then there is nothing you can do. Usually there are very few that are in that category - sometimes there are some that have sections but rarely an entire script. Of course with 'at home marking' these days the days of sitting with a...

They check that everything has been marked and properly recorded so they should pick up if a section hasn't been marked. If they find that something was missed it will be added to your marks and you will be informed of an increase in marks. If nothing is found you will be informed that there...

If your teacher also agrees that the marks are low maybe you need to talk to the appropriate staff member at school to ask for either double marking of assessment task (your teacher and the other teacher), sharing out the marking or at the very least 'blind' marking - using numbers not names and...

Re: Where/when do we get info about our scaled marks and what units contributed to AT If you did 11 units it is still the best 10 units including 2 units of English. So if after your best two units of English and the next 6 best units you have three units left e.g. 2U Maths 88 and History...

The raw internal mark was moderated to the external marks. Your were ranked first so your internal mark was equivalent to the highest exam mark - which was 91 from all appearances. That is why you ended up with 91 across the board. The raw internal marks are only used to determine ranks and...