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It will be indicated on your results. It should also be noted that you don't get it IF you would get a better result without it. They calculate your results both with the exam mark and without the exam mark and the one that gives you the best result is the one they give you which is why you may...

English usually takes around 4 weeks to mark so no they won't have finished the English papers yet by any means.

These would be set by your school so ask there to being with.

It depends on how many lines a school runs. In Year 11 we run 7 lines and one line includes Ext 1 Eng and Ext 1 Maths. There will be other subjects on the line as well - often the second line for other subjects e.g. a PDHPE and a Biology class. This means that in Year 11 everyone is accommodated...

Schools are required to send grades to BOSTES in both Year 10 and Year 11 to form a record of school achievement for students leaving school without an HSC. If you are going to get an HSC then they aren't that important but ... some schools use the ROSA grades as a minimum to enter some courses...

Any ranking of your school you have seen is based on past performance and will not affect your results. After your cohort does the HSC new rankings will be calculated by various news outlets (not by BOSTES at all) based on your cohort's results. The only reason students look at results is to...

I have had a student drop a subject officially on the Monday when the HSC exam was on the Thursday. She still had 10 units, had done most of the exams, had one on Thursday and one on Friday so decided to not bother with the one on Thursday and went through the process to drop it. My point is...

You can put it in as long as there is a 'document' to support that course. These days most courses give certificates of participation or otherwise - often listing the nationally recognised skills etc that the course covered. These are worthwhile putting on a CV as you don't necessarily know...

To meet the requirements of the Preliminary course and thus to be eligible for the HSC you have to complete a minimum of 12 units in Year 11. When your school determines that you have completed that course is almost up to them - for my school it is at the end of Week 2 Term 4 (due to needing to...

If it doesn't have the required detail or isn't using the correct language for the subject then it won't get the marks as that is part of the requirements of the question. If I ask a student to 'explain' and they write everything in point form they won't get more than half the marks as they...

Yes - it is evidence that you have undertaken personal education.

Make sure it is legible. If the marker can't read it then they can't mark it - quite simple really. Markers will make every effort to read the work but if it can't be read it can't get marks. I have heard a number of furphies that say that if it is illegible then they will get you to go to the...

Programs and assessment tasks are written by each school so you need to find teachers who may be prepared to help you.

Running that extra class though would put a strain on the rest of the staffing of the school which must cover the minimum hours of junior classes. That extra Maths class in Year 11 for instance may not be possible within the teaching load for the school and schools are staffed on number of...

Timetabling issues isn't only about fitting periods into the set school day but also includes the number of periods a teacher teachers regardless of when those lessons are held. Teachers have a set number of periods they teach. Teaching 3 - 4 hours off-line for one or two students means that...

From my more than 25 years experience of syllabus development in NSW the one thing I can say is that what appears in the 'briefs' rarely appears in that form in the final syllabus - the general ideas yes but the details no. Until there is an actual new syllabus in effect there is nothing...

One of the issues for schools is actually timetabling of students across grades. My school has had one student accelerate in Maths from Year 7 but then decided not to do so again as it forced too many timetabling issues resulting in years when Year 9 and Year 10 for instance only had Maths on...

If someone who has been offered the course refuses it then a vacancy could open up but otherwise there won't be any offers in the next round.

The BOS has told me and my Head of Department AND the notes to the syllabus clearly says 'can't significantly overlap with ANY examinable syllabus' - not just Modern/Ancient History but any. The people I have spoken to at the BOS have said that is anything from any course and used to include the...

Practising of a whiteboard is a good idea and if I may give some more advice - practice actually standing up and then walk away from the board and see how far away you can really see it. I have seen many people try to write on a whiteboard and write way too small to begin with not realising...