HSC Examination 2008 - Important Information

Notes on the HSC examinations

Please note the following:

Reading time

Reading time is for reading, and NO writing or highlighting may be undertaken during reading time. The presiding officer will advise students when they may take up their pens.

Written examination venue

Please check with your school or your examination coordinator which venue you will attend for all your HSC written examinations.

Conduct during the examinations

Students are advised to familiarise themselves with those sections of the HSC Rules and Procedures for 2008 Higher School Certificate Candidates booklet that relate to examination conduct. Please note that examination timetables are not to be taken into the examination room.

Mobile phones

Students are reminded that mobile phones and electronic communication devices, such as organisers and dictionaries, are not permitted in an examination room under any circumstances.

Notification of UAI results

Eligible students who have indicated that they wish to receive a UAI will do so directly from the Universities Admissions Centre (UAC).

Examination equipment

• When in the examination room, students must remove watches and place them in clear view on the examination table.
• Students may only take the equipment listed below into the examination room. No other equipment is allowed.
• Any equipment brought into the examination room will be subject to inspection before the examination commences.
• It is the responsibility of the student to supply equipment that is in good working order. This includes calculators.
• Equipment failure is not a ground for an appeal under misadventure provisions.
• Supervisors will not be responsible for the safekeeping of any unauthorised material.
• When answering multiple-choice questions on Answer Sheets, students should use black or blue pen.

Equipment for all examinations

Students are expected to provide pens (black is recommended), pencils and erasers, and a ruler marked in millimetres and centimetres, for ALL EXAMINATIONS.

Students may use a pencil sharpener and/or highlighter pen.

Equipment for specific HSC examinations

This list details specific equipment that students are expected to provide for particular examinations. Only those examinations that require specific equipment are listed.

Notes:

1. A Board-approved calculator is one that appears on the Board's 2008 HSC list of approved scientific calculators.
2. In the General Mathematics HSC examination students are permitted to use calculators, including graphics calculators, that are silent, hand-held, and either battery or solar powered. Calculators that are capable of communicating or exchanging data may be taken into the examination room, but are not to be used for this purpose in the examination. A calculating device that incorporates a set of keys whose primary function is to represent the alphabetic characters (eg a QWERTY keyboard) is not deemed to be a calculator for the purpose of the examination/test, and will not be allowed. Calculators to be used by students in the examination/test must have been switched off and have had all storage facilities cleared for entry into the examination room. See the Calculators for use in the General Mathematics HSC Examination and SC Tests page for information on clearance of storage facilities.
3. Students may take into any mathematics examination a curve-drawing template, provided such templates contain no printed formulae other than equations of simple curves (such as y=x²) that may be drawn using the template.