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General Resources (all subjects)
Exams/Study Resources
Past HSC Exam Papers and notes from the marking centre are available from the NSW Board of Studies web site.
HSC Standards Packages from the NSW Board of Studies use actual student answers to provide a guide to high, medium and low level achievement in HSC examinations.
Online Multiple Choice practice questions are provided by the NSW Board of Studies for the 29 subjects that have a multiple choice component in the HSC Exam.
Study Guides
There are study guides for most HSC subjects from publishers such as Excel and Macquarie. These guides briefly cover the content of each subject's syllabus and are designed to assist students with their study and revision. In addition, there are study guides for most of the HSC English texts and prescribed areas of study. The majority of these study guides are in the Reference Collection and are for use in the library only, however, most branch libraries also have a collection of study guides available for loan.
Study Guides can be located in the Library Catalogue by doing a General Keyword search for the name of a subject, along with the words study guides. Eg. modern history study guides.
Support Material
Online Databases. Search for newspaper, magazine and journal articles on any topic in the Library's collection of online databases.
HSC Syllabuses for all subjects are available from the NSW Board of Studies web site.
Infocus is a State Library of NSW service that provides support material to HSC students. Specialist staff research the vast collections of the State Reference and Mitchell Libraries to identify HSC-related resources that represent a diversity of viewpoints and text types. Infocus items can be ordered by anyone, however, Sutherland Library has acquired selected articles from the Infocus collection. They are housed in the reference library and are not for loan but they can be photocopied. You can browse the complete Topic List on the Infocus web site.
Bored of Studies contains hundreds of notes and past papers from more than 30 subjects studied in the HSC. The materials are provided by previous HSC students and the site editors, as well as past trial and HSC papers from various schools around NSW. No guarantees of quality are given in respect to the notes and/or exam solutions submitted by previous students. Other features of Bored of studies include a Blog, discussion forums and a UAI calculator.
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More Help
In Person
YourTutor connects students with expert tutors for live, one-to-one individual learning sessions via the Internet in their Online Classroom.
Library Tours are conducted at Sutherland Library upon request to help you make the best possible use of our facilities.
On the Web
NSW H.S.C. Online
This site has a list of Internet resources for all HSC subjects, study and examination tips and links to supporting agencies.
The Sydney Morning Herald: HSC guide 2009
This study guide published by the Sydney Morning Herald and written by experienced teachers gives timely advice for many HSC subjects.
Board of Studies NSW
The Board of Studies provides support material for students, parents and teachers, including Syllabus documents and past HSC Papers.
Curriculum Support
Supporting resources from the NSW Department of Education and Training for all subjects in each of the Key Learning Areas.
University Admission Centre (UAC) is the central office that receives and processes applications for admission to most courses at participating NSW and ACT universities. Students can view important dates, information about university courses and the UAI required to gain entry to those courses. Students are able to change their course preferences and university place offers are published on the web site in January.
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