2026 HSC CHAT (5 Viewers)

[its_ace21]

I'm literally considering writing an apology email to my bio teacher for dropping. She actually hates me now and I don't want her to resent me fro the rest of my time at school

shes gonna forget you in like a year just ignore her

 

[Study to success]

shes gonna forget you in like a year just ignore her

she was actually a really good teacher tho. I feel bad but yeah hopefully we both move on and all is good

 

[Study to success]

I never feel like doing work in class. Only at home. I can't be the only one with this problem right? atp I should be homeschooled cause I could literally graduate early like some people ik+ I would be able to do stuff I enjoy and do it whenever I wanted to

 

[Burnt_Out]

I never feel like doing work in class. Only at home. I can't be the only one with this problem right? atp I should be homeschooled cause I could literally graduate early like some people ik+ I would be able to do stuff I enjoy and do it whenever I wanted to

I literally have a study period rn and the people around me aren't doing anything

 

[ihateschool_ilovemoney]

find the links of everything i talked about in the attached file

Hi fellas,
I’m a 2025 HSC student, and as you may know, we just concluded our Mathematics Advanced course yesterday. I thought it’d be helpful to share some tips from my experience and give back a little, so I’m sharing my full 130-page notes to help any newcomers navigate this awful system as you’ll come to realise soon

a little bit of background about me: i started schooling in australia in year 9 and i worked at KFC, i never took school seriously till the 4th term of year 10 by that time my foundational knowledge was garbage i couldn't do 2x + x (literally)
so started actually studying seriously and i got some help from a tutor.
she couldn't help me get good marks bec. she had no experience with exam questions
i had silly mistakes all over any paper i solved but i kept busting my ass day and night in year 11 but i couldn't score anything above 50% bec. i did not have access to my school's past papers
in year 12, i started fresh, i implemented solving past papers as a part of my study routine and my marks improved (a little)
i started seeing 60s, i kept working hard all year and the rest as they say is history

Please feel free to share these notes, and never fall into the trap of gatekeeping:
and please feel free to ask me if you need anything: rbgshot@gmail.com

some tips i learned the hard way:

1. get help, isolation won't help you; talk to your school teacher or look for other teachers and go to tutoring if you can

2. the best textbook is Cambridge but: beyond simple understanding the ALL textbooks are useless ditch them in the bin do as many PP as you possibly can and repeat the ones you did after some long time to make sure you understood the concept not just memorised the answer, i have the PDF if you would like it

3. care about early entry schemes, apply early and apply effectively that's how my grades got me into uni (i study computer science)
and go to university programs (UOW masterclass, UNSW gateway admission, macquarie open days) and refrence that in your early entry application and get a reccomendation letter from people you meet there and attach that in your application too

4. Pick your Subjects Very Very Carefully, if you're not that good at maths but you want to excel pick it but pick the easiest subjects with it

5. seriously don't obsess about getting a good ATAR work hard but don't let it consume you

6. play sports or hit the gym; it will help you restore cognitive energy

7. record your mistakes after each exam

8. study effectively that is: don't think you're studying if you're not targeting your weakest areas or the most notoriously difficult questions

9. use THSC and focus on solving papers from higher ranked schools

10. move from your school, to a lower ranked one if you know you're not getting a good rank

11. this one is a bit of tough love, the HSC is a nightmare, you will be stressed constantly, your life will be consumed by the huge content you will think you're dumb (that's not true)

12. use SM (smarter maths sheets) they organise all past hsc papers by topic, i uploaded them on Drive, lmk if the link expires

13. don't neglect year 11 content its all over hsc papers

14. Use AI to understand content or solve hard questions and search Eddie woo on yt

15. Universities are fucking scammers; they don't care about you or your marks they only care about their image, and about getting your money so if your marks are shit do your best to convice them that you're a good investment and don't believe when they say "Some programs are highly competitive" they're just afraid that you go to uni and end up repeating years which affects their image

16. uni is completely different to the HSC, in uni the goal is your success the HSC is squid game

17. finally don't hate maths for the rest of your life if you end up with a shit mark, just know that real maths is elegant and that you're not doing real maths the hsc frames maths incorrectly in my opinion

 

[enlargedthroat]

find the links of everything i talked about in the attached file

Hi fellas,
I’m a 2025 HSC student, and as you may know, we just concluded our Mathematics Advanced course yesterday. I thought it’d be helpful to share some tips from my experience and give back a little, so I’m sharing my full 130-page notes to help any newcomers navigate this awful system as you’ll come to realise soon

a little bit of background about me: i started schooling in australia in year 9 and i worked at KFC, i never took school seriously till the 4th term of year 10 by that time my foundational knowledge was garbage i couldn't do 2x + x (literally)
so started actually studying seriously and i got some help from a tutor.
she couldn't help me get good marks bec. she had no experience with exam questions
i had silly mistakes all over any paper i solved but i kept busting my ass day and night in year 11 but i couldn't score anything above 50% bec. i did not have access to my school's past papers
in year 12, i started fresh, i implemented solving past papers as a part of my study routine and my marks improved (a little)
i started seeing 60s, i kept working hard all year and the rest as they say is history

Please feel free to share these notes, and never fall into the trap of gatekeeping:
and please feel free to ask me if you need anything: rbgshot@gmail.com

some tips i learned the hard way:

1. get help, isolation won't help you; talk to your school teacher or look for other teachers and go to tutoring if you can

2. the best textbook is Cambridge but: beyond simple understanding the ALL textbooks are useless ditch them in the bin do as many PP as you possibly can and repeat the ones you did after some long time to make sure you understood the concept not just memorised the answer, i have the PDF if you would like it

3. care about early entry schemes, apply early and apply effectively that's how my grades got me into uni (i study computer science)
and go to university programs (UOW masterclass, UNSW gateway admission, macquarie open days) and refrence that in your early entry application and get a reccomendation letter from people you meet there and attach that in your application too

4. Pick your Subjects Very Very Carefully, if you're not that good at maths but you want to excel pick it but pick the easiest subjects with it

5. seriously don't obsess about getting a good ATAR work hard but don't let it consume you

6. play sports or hit the gym; it will help you restore cognitive energy

7. record your mistakes after each exam

8. study effectively that is: don't think you're studying if you're not targeting your weakest areas or the most notoriously difficult questions

9. use THSC and focus on solving papers from higher ranked schools

10. move from your school, to a lower ranked one if you know you're not getting a good rank

11. this one is a bit of tough love, the HSC is a nightmare, you will be stressed constantly, your life will be consumed by the huge content you will think you're dumb (that's not true)

12. use SM (smarter maths sheets) they organise all past hsc papers by topic, i uploaded them on Drive, lmk if the link expires

13. don't neglect year 11 content its all over hsc papers

14. Use AI to understand content or solve hard questions and search Eddie woo on yt

15. Universities are fucking scammers; they don't care about you or your marks they only care about their image, and about getting your money so if your marks are shit do your best to convice them that you're a good investment and don't believe when they say "Some programs are highly competitive" they're just afraid that you go to uni and end up repeating years which affects their image

16. uni is completely different to the HSC, in uni the goal is your success the HSC is squid game

17. finally don't hate maths for the rest of your life if you end up with a shit mark, just know that real maths is elegant and that you're not doing real maths the hsc frames maths incorrectly in my opinion

Fuck up

 

[svad]

Fuck up

Guys look at mr tough guy

 

[m_avi]

Fuck up

Damn 2026 chat lost its touch with out. Thought you left fr

 

[f7eeting]

just curious, how many hours a day are u guys spending studying? i feel like i havent been doing enough

 

[Sam Rowan]

just curious, how many hours a day are u guys spending studying? i feel like i havent been doing enough

it’s the beginning of school so like… 1-2 hours i guess? i’m just doing whatever homework/supplements my teachers are giving us (which is not a lot because my teachers knows these kids don’t do shit) and what i have on atomi

 

[stariu]

does anyone know how the atar is calculated. im so confused as to how it works

 

[English hater]

does anyone know how the atar is calculated. im so confused as to how it works

its a long story so buckle down

 

[stariu]

its a long story so buckle down

just say it

 

[English hater]

does anyone know how the atar is calculated. im so confused as to how it works

the atar is a rank from 0 to 99.95, made from an agrigate of scaled subjects. The maths behind how the atar is calculated is complicated statistical analysis. raw marks from internals are used to make ranks for internal assesment tasks. the hsc is used as a sort of scaling tool to rank schools against eachother, to even out the difficulty difference between differnt school internal assesment tasks, so technically, the hsc is the only thing that matters. The raw hsc marks are aligned with a linear transformation, setting the worst mark as 0 and the best mark at 100 (this is the aligned mark, the one they put into atar calculators and the one you see when you get the atar, also the one from the raw mark database). From the scaling report, they take these marks and put them all with a mean of 25/50 and a standard distrubution of 12 and then they combine it with moderated internal assesment marks, keep in mind i barely know what is going on and some of this might be wrong. Using the moderated internal assesment tasks, ranks are formed and the raw mark from the hsc is half matched to your rank. Lets say if joe got 100% but came last internally, he would only receive half of his 100% from the hsc and the other half comes from the worst mark in the hsc. The hsc basically justs gets everyone's scores and distributes them. The aligned marks are then scaled so that the difficlty of the tests can be accounted for, dont want a guy from dance getting 50% being equal to a guy getting 50% in 4u maths. These scaled marks are then converted into an atar equivilant to make an aggrigate out of 500 that is used to rank people. i suggest reading @carrotsss atar scaling report with his atar calculator. Nobody really knows how it works.

 

[stariu]

the atar is a rank from 0 to 99.95, made from an agrigate of scaled subjects. The maths behind how the atar is calculated is complicated statistical analysis. raw marks from internals are used to make ranks for internal assesment tasks. the hsc is used as a sort of scaling tool to rank schools against eachother, to even out the difficulty difference between differnt school internal assesment tasks, so technically, the hsc is the only thing that matters. The raw hsc marks are aligned with a linear transformation, setting the worst mark as 0 and the best mark at 100 (this is the aligned mark, the one they put into atar calculators and the one you see when you get the atar, also the one from the raw mark database). From the scaling report, they take these marks and put them all with a mean of 25/50 and a standard distrubution of 12 and then they combine it with moderated internal assesment marks, keep in mind i barely know what is going on and some of this might be wrong. Using the moderated internal assesment tasks, ranks are formed and the raw mark from the hsc is half matched to your rank. Lets say if joe got 100% but came last internally, he would only receive half of his 100% from the hsc and the other half comes from the worst mark in the hsc. The hsc basically justs gets everyone's scores and distributes them. The aligned marks are then scaled so that the difficlty of the tests can be accounted for, dont want a guy from dance getting 50% being equal to a guy getting 50% in 4u maths. These scaled marks are then converted into an atar equivilant to make an aggrigate out of 500 that is used to rank people. i suggest reading @carrotsss atar scaling report with his atar calculator. Nobody really knows how it works.

i heard that if you come 1st in school but did really shit in the hsc then you get the highest mark from your school?is that true

 

[English hater]

i heard that if you come 1st in school but did really shit in the hsc then you get the highest mark from your school?is that true

you get half of the highest mark, half of your mark

 

[Study to success]

just curious, how many hours a day are u guys spending studying? i feel like i havent been doing enough

Like barely 1 hr

 

[stariu]

you get half of the highest mark, half of your mark

so internals marks cant change only the hsc mark rightt>>

 

[English hater]

so internals marks cant change only the hsc mark rightt>>

internal marks change, they get moderated, otherwise the system wouldnt be fair to schools with diffucult internals, however, rank is more important than mark, if someone with rank 1 has an average of 50% but gets 100% in hsc, their internal mark will be moderated to 100%, depending on how the cohort does obviously

 

[ellurbee]

Fuck up

KING IS BACK