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Multiple syllabuses: Minor amendment – glossary update

Updated

  • Glossary term updated to align with new Aboriginal Studies 11–12 definition.  
    Found in: Glossary, Native Title.
Stage 4Stage 5Stage 6
Multiple syllabuses: Minor amendment – glossary update

Updated

  • Glossary term updated to align with new Aboriginal Studies 11–12 definition. 
    Found in: Glossary, Customary Lore.
Stage 4Stage 5Stage 6Life Skills
Multiple syllabuses: Minor amendment – glossary update

Updated

Stage 6
Communication Technology 7–10 (2025): Minor amendment – outcomes

Updated

  • Outcome CMTLS-GME-01 was changed to read ‘graphics or multimedia’ instead of ‘graphics and multimedia’.
    Found in: Outcomes
Stage 4Stage 5Life Skills
Multiple syllabuses: Minor amendment – Rosemary Dobson collection updated

Updated

  • In Selected poems of Rosemary Dobson (NESA, 2026), the poem ‘Piltdown Man’ was updated to include the sixth stanza.
    Found in: Loading 
Stage 6
Mathematics Extension 2 11–12 Syllabus (2024): Minor amendment – example

Updated

  • Expression ∫3x+6x2+4x+5dx was removed from the example.
    Found in: Year 12, Further integration (Integrate rational functions whose denominators can be expressed as a product of distinct linear factors, distinct irreducible quadratic factors and perfect square factors, using partial fraction decomposition).
Stage 6
Rules 2.1.1 and 2.1.2 Formal assessment programs and tasks

NESA has made changes to Rule 2.1.1 to reflect the limits on take-home assessments for Preliminary courses. These changes include:

  • A new paragraph (paragraph 6) restricting schools to a maximum of one take-home assessment task per Preliminary course, worth no more than 15 per cent of the school-based assessment mark
  • Two new footnotes outlining NESA’s description of ‘in-school assessment tasks’ and ‘take-home assessment tasks’
  • A new footnote listing the Preliminary courses that are exempt from the new limits on take-home assessments
  • A new paragraph (paragraph 10) clarifying that schools must design formal assessment tasks to ensure marks reflect a student’s own work, and not their use of generative AI
  • Removal of requirements about multiple parts of formal assessment tasks – these are now obsolete.

NESA has made changes to Rule 2.1.2 to reflect the limits on take-home assessments for HSC courses. These changes include:

  • A new paragraph (paragraph 24) restricting schools to a maximum of one take-home assessment task per HSC course, worth no more than 15 per cent of the school-based assessment mark
  • Two new footnotes outlining NESA’s description of ‘in-school assessment tasks’ and ‘take-home assessment tasks’
  • A new footnote listing the HSC courses that are exempt from the new limits on take-home assessments
  • A new paragraph (paragraph 28) clarifying that schools must design formal assessment tasks to ensure marks reflect a student’s own work, and not their use of generative AI
  • Removal of requirements about multiple parts of formal assessment tasks – these are now obsolete. 
  • A new requirement (paragraph 30) for teachers in marking formal assessment tasks, that marks are awarded based on evidence of a student’s own work and not their use of generative AI
Stage 6
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Rule 2.2.2 Submitting HSC school-based assessment marks to NESA

NESA has made changes to Rule 2.2.2. These changes clarify principal responsibilities in certifying entered assessment marks. This ensures that entered marks are based on evidence of the student’s own knowledge, skills and understanding, and not the use of generative AI. This clarification (paragraph 27) helps ensure AI has not contributed to assessment task marks.

Stage 6
Rule 2.5.2 Certifying and submitting HSC projects, submitted works and performances

NESA has made changes to Rule 2.5.2 to include clarifying instructions for principals in the event a student’s project, submitted work or performance does not meet NESA’s certification criteria.  The clarification (paragraph 13) refers to supervising teacher’s consideration of whether the student has used generative AI for part of the student’s work.

Stage 6
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Rule 10.1.2 Developing a school malpractice policy

NESA has made a change to Rule 10.1.2 to require schools not rely on software tools to detect generative AI in determining malpractice. This is a new requirement for schools in developing their school malpractice policy (paragraph 18).

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