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General website updates: ‘View side-by-side' feature added

Introduced

  • The new 'View side-by-side' feature was introduced to allow users to view syllabus content from different pages side-by-side on the same screen.
  • The ‘View side-by-side' feature is available from the Loading  and within all syllabus pages.
  • The ‘View side-by-side' shortcut icon is available for related Life Skills content in all relevant syllabus pages.

Removed 

  • The ‘Custom syllabus view’ page.
  • ‘Edit view’ removed from syllabus banners.

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Child Studies 7–10 Syllabus (2025): Minor amendment – School-developed option wording updated

Updated

  • Wording accompanying school-developed option was updated to clarify expectations for selected content.
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Stage 4Stage 5
Multiple syllabuses: Minor amendment –School-developed option wording updated

Updated

  • Wording accompanying school-developed option was updated to clarify expectations for selected content.
    Found in: Options: School-developed option
Stage 4Stage 5
Mathematics Extension 2 11–12 (2024): Minor amendment – typographical error corrected

Typographical error

  • Content point was corrected with typographical error.
    Found in: Year 12, Introduction to complex numbers (Arithmetic of complex numbers), 'Establish relationships Rez=z+z-2 and Imz=z-z-2i  and 1z=z-z2 and use them to solve problems'

Stage 6
General website updates: Improvements to custom syllabus downloads

Introduced

  • One-click functionality to include a related Life Skills syllabus when downloading a Stage 6 syllabus.

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General website updates: Improvements to syllabus downloads

Introduced

  • In the syllabus download modal the relevant ‘Stages’ and ‘Syllabus elements’ will be preselected.

Found in:

  • All syllabuses
Rule 12.2.2 Repeating courses

NESA has updated paragraph 14 to clarify that for students repeating courses, their most recent course attempt will contribute to the HSC pattern of study.

Stage 6
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Rule 8.2.4 Granting disability provisions for HSC minimum standard tests

NESA has revised the period for retaining evidence used in principal-approved disability provisions to limit unnecessary record keeping (see paragraph 20).   

Stage 5Stage 6
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Rule 10.2.1 Completing and certifying All My Own Work

Minor phrasing changes have been made to Paragraph 7 in framing the paragraph around students’ responsibilities for All My Own Work.   

The following sentence has been deleted as it describes NESA’s reporting responsibilities which do not require enforcement via an ACE Rule:

“NESA will make all necessary reports to the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) where malpractice is serious, deliberate, and amounts to corrupt conduct.”

Stage 6
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Rule 2.3.1 Submitting grades to NESA

NESA has made changes to ACE Rule: 2.3.1. These changes clarify:

  • that Stage 5 assessment policies and procedures must detail procedures for final grade appeals (see paragraph 1.c)
  • that student appeals against final Stage 5 grades must be resolved at the school level (see paragraph 1.c, footnote 2)
  • the timeframe and rationale for retaining grades for 100-hour courses completed in Year 9. (see paragraph 3).
Stage 5
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