Ultimate guide to HSC exam success for NSW students: Experts give top tips in key subjects
With just days until the first HSC exam, here’s some last-minute advice from experts including exam markers, top teachers, elite students and tutors. Read the the ultimate guide to success.
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They are the teachers at the most successful schools, markers of exams and expert tutors — they’ve seen and done it all.
The Daily Telegraph’s ultimate guide to success in HSC exams features the wisdom of teachers who consistently help their classes rake in band 6 results; tutors who’ve scoured over dozens of exam papers and even those who mark the exams.
There’s also advice from the students who’ve done it all before, with hints and tips from some of the best in class from 2022.
From English to mathematics, sciences and business studies, these are the top tips from experts in each field on how to achieve success in HSC 2023.
Adequate preparation and balanced rest is a common theme.
Using your reading time and watching the clock during the exam is another.
But some of the advice is less mainstream, and some varies significantly according to the different approaches required for specific subjects.
And one ‘Studytok’ influencer with more than 27,000 followers has shared her secreds to success as she aims for a 99+ ATAR, including a method she calls “blurting”. Watch her video here and read the HSC exam top tips here:
And here’s the advice from the students who ranked among the highest in their year for individual subjects.
Top tier students told The Daily Telegraph their top tips heading into the Trials in August, and they hold true for the upcoming exams.
Key dates:
First exam:
Wednesday October 11 (English Paper 1, 9:50am to 11:20am)
Last exam:
Friday November 3 (Food Technology, 9:25am – 12:30pm)
Illness/misadventure Applications:
Must be submitted to NESA by day after final exam
Assessment ranks released: Friday November 3 (after Food Technology exam) until Friday December 1 HSC results
ATARs released: Thursday December 14, 9am
Early university offers for School Recommendation Scheme:
Deadline for Round 1 preferences is Friday November 3, offers released Friday, November 10 at 7.30am
University main offer rounds:
Deadline for Round 1 preferences is Friday December 15, offers released Thursday, December 21 at 7.30am
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