Higher School Certificate (NSW) revision resources, notes and practice questions.
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Printable practice with an answer sheet.
A structured workshop in which students plan an analytical essay from an original prompt on an original short text, 'High Water', about a…
Exam-style practice in calculating and interpreting the financial ratios used in senior Business Studies: current ratio, debt-to-equity…
An exam-style marketing case study built around a fictional Newcastle coffee roaster. Students read the stimulus and answer seven…
Clear explanations, examples and tips.
HSC/VCE-style study notes on what effective managers do, the skills they need, and the classical, behavioural and contingency approaches…
HSC/VCE-style study notes on small to medium enterprises (SMEs), the influences on establishing a new business, and what goes into a…
HSC/VCE-style study notes on the laws of demand and supply, the factors that shift each curve, and how a market reaches equilibrium. Works…
Senior English asks students to write persuasively (to argue a position) and discursively (to explore an idea from several angles). This…
HSC/VCE-style study notes on price elasticity of demand and supply, how to calculate and classify elasticity, and why it matters for…
An HSC/VCE-style study guide to function notation, the vertical line test, and finding the domain and range of common functions. Worked…
A step-by-step guide to the senior English analytical essay: turning a question into an arguable thesis, structuring an introduction, body…
A guide to the craft decisions that senior English markers reward in imaginative writing: a distinctive narrative voice, a deliberate…
An HSC/VCE-style study guide that sets out the index laws, the definition of a logarithm and the logarithm laws side by side. Worked…
A reference table of more than twenty language techniques, each with a definition, an original example and the effect you can write about,…
HSC/VCE-style study notes on what a business is, the role businesses play in the Australian economy, and the main ways businesses are…
An HSC/VCE-style study guide to multi-stage probability: the addition and multiplication rules, tree diagrams with and without…
An HSC/VCE-style study guide comparing simple interest (I = Prn) with compound interest (A = P(1 + r)ⁿ), including compounding more often…
HSC/VCE-style study notes on scarcity, the economic problem and the three questions every economy must answer. Explains opportunity cost…
An HSC/VCE-style study guide to solving any quadratic equation with the quadratic formula and using the discriminant to predict how many…
An HSC/VCE-style study guide to translating, stretching and reflecting graphs using the form y = a f(b(x − h)) + k. Worked examples track…
An HSC/VCE-style study guide to the financial models met in senior maths: straight-line and declining-balance depreciation, the future and…
An HSC/VCE-style study guide to using the first and second derivatives to find and classify stationary points and points of inflection,…
An HSC/VCE-style study guide to analysing two numerical variables: describing scatterplots, interpreting Pearson's r and the coefficient…
HSC/VCE-style study notes on how to read a Business Studies question, what each command term is asking you to do, and how to plan and…
A guide to the comparative essay for senior English, in which two texts are put in conversation about an idea. Using two original…
An HSC/VCE-style study guide to the three rules that let you differentiate products, quotients and composite functions. Each worked…
HSC/VCE-style study notes on the three headline macroeconomic indicators. Explains how economic growth is measured from real GDP, how the…
The skills that separate a good English exam result from a very good one: reading the command term accurately, unpacking the question,…
An HSC/VCE-style study guide to the model N = N₀eᵏᵗ: finding k from data, predicting future values, half-life and doubling time, the rate…
HSC/VCE-style study notes on the finance function: financial objectives, sources of finance, the three financial statements and the ratios…
HSC/VCE-style study notes on the two main macroeconomic policy tools used in Australia. Explains fiscal policy through the federal budget,…
HSC/VCE-style study notes on globalisation, the gains from trade through comparative advantage, protection versus free trade, and how the…
HSC/VCE-style study notes on the human resources function: its strategic role, the stakeholders and legal, economic, technological, social…
An HSC/VCE-style study guide to definite integrals and area: the standard integrals, the fundamental theorem of calculus, areas below the…
HSC/VCE-style study notes on the role of marketing, the marketing process from situational analysis to monitoring and control, and the…
HSC/VCE-style study notes on the operations function: its strategic role, the inputs-transformation-outputs model and the main influences…
Analysis is only as precise as its words. This guide organises the vocabulary senior English students need: verbs for what composers,…
An HSC/VCE-style study guide to the bell curve: calculating z-scores, comparing results from different tests, using the 68–95–99.7 rule,…
An HSC/VCE-style study guide to radian measure, the exact-value table, the unit circle (ASTC) and the basic trigonometric graphs. Worked…
A practical method for the unseen-text section of senior English exams: a five-step first-read routine, what to look for in prose, poetry,…
Step-by-step solutions to model the method.
Ten exam-style calculus questions covering differentiation (product, quotient and chain rules with exponentials, logarithms and…
Ten exam-style questions on functions and their graphs: function notation, domain and range, transformations of points, composite and…
A passage with questions.
An HSC/VCE-style unseen-text practice set built around an original prose extract, 'Night Window', in which a teenager working the night…
An HSC/VCE-style unseen poetry practice set built around an original twenty-line poem, 'Inventory of a Shed', in which a speaker sorts…
An HSC/VCE-style unseen nonfiction practice set built around an original speech in which a Year 12 student urges a shire council not to…