Equipment Checklist for Higher School Certificate Examinations and School Certificate Tests
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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.
Agriculture (both Papers 1 and 2)
Biology
Business Services (VET)
Business Studies
Chemistry
Construction (VET)
Earth and Environmental Science
Economics
Engineering Studies
Entertainment Industry (VET)
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Geography
Each student will be provided with two desks, set at right angles for additional working space. Hospitality (VET)
Industrial Technology
Information Processes and Technology Please note that calculators are NOT permitted. Information Technology (VET)
Languages – Use of Dictionaries The use of monolingual and/or bilingual print dictionaries (but NOT electronic dictionaries) is permitted in the Chinese, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Modern Greek and Spanish Beginners written examinations and in the Continuers, Extension, Background Speakers and CCAFL written languages examinations. Dictionaries may be consulted during reading time and during the examination. Dictionaries may NOT be used in the Arabic Beginners written examination, NOR in the Continuers and Extension examinations for classical languages – Latin, Classical Greek and Classical Hebrew. |
Mathematics
Metal and Engineering (VET)
Physics
Primary Industries (VET)
Retail Operations (VET)
Senior Science
Software Design and Development
Please note that calculators are NOT permitted. Tourism (VET)
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School Certificate tests
For the English-literacy test and both the online and pen-and-paper versions of the Computing Skills test, no additional equipment is needed.
Additional equipment for the School Certificate tests in Mathematics, Science, and Australian History, Geography, Civics and Citizenship:
- a calculator [2]
- a pair of compasses
- a protractor
- set squares
- (optional) a curve-drawing template [3] for the Mathematics test only
Notes:
- A Board-approved calculator is one that appears on the Board's HSC list of approved scientific calculators.
- 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 be switched off and have had all storage facilities cleared for entry into the examination room. For information on clearance of storage facilities please refer to Calculators for use in the General Mathematics HSC Examination and SC Tests
- 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.