HSC exams and preliminary (1 Viewer)

[Cleverusername5321]

Can BOS ask you preliminary questions in HSC exams come October?

 

[Cleverusername5321]

Hey, not directly they can't, but the preliminary course is considered assumed knowledge for the HSC courses so a lot of the things lead on– especially in physics and chemistry because a lot of the calculations and basic concepts are covered in year 11. Essentially they can't directly test you on year 11 stuff but you can't really do the HSC course without understanding the year 11 course, if you know what I mean?

Idk about humanities though, I'm pretty sure the preliminary courses are irrelevant to HSC courses in terms of content, and no they cannot test you directly

For maths its different though (all levels of maths). 30% of papers is supposed to be prelim work

Yeah I'm only worried about legal studies because we only spent 2 lessons on that (I'm doing preliminary+HSC in 1 year at TAFE).
Thanks for the response.

 

[strawberrye]

Yeah I'm only worried about legal studies because we only spent 2 lessons on that (I'm doing preliminary+HSC in 1 year at TAFE).
Thanks for the response.

Just one tip, since you are condensing two years of study into one year, make sure if you have any questions about the content studied, you ask those questions the second you don't understand something, it is so vital that under such a tight timeframe you don't have any loopholes in your knowledge since they can have a rapid snowball effect. Best wishes for you to ace your studies this year

 

[enoilgam]

With the exception of maths, content from Prelim is not featured on the final exam. However, HSC courses contain assumed knowledge from Prelim which you need to understand HSC topics. For example, with Legal Studies, you need to understand how precedent works in order to know how to use cases properly in the exam essays.