HSC BOS Resources

The Board of Studies web site has lots of resources that will be used in this course to improve your understanding of requirements and your examination skills. They are sometimes a little difficult to locate so I have provided links to the most useful resources below. They can also be found in right hand column of this site under the heading of HSC BOS Resources.

• Entertainment Syllabus Part A
• Entertainment Syllabus Part B
• Past HSC Exam  Papers 
• HSC Sample Answers 
• Article on Preparing for the HSC Exam 

The HSC Standards Package is probably the most interesting and helpful. It provides an insight into what you can expect in the HSC examination for Entertainment. These packages will be used to prepare you for your half-yearly and yearly examinations. The HSC Standards Package contains:

• Examination papers that shows each question students were required to answer. Marking guidelines that show the criteria applied to allocate marks to the student responses in line with the quality of responses. 
• Band descriptions that summarise the knowledge, skills and understanding typically demonstrated by students who achieve each band. 
• Samples of student responses that illustrate the nature and quality of the responses produced by students whose marks in the examination placed them at the borderline between each pair of bands. 
• Tables and graphs for questions where students are required to select an answer, such as multiple choice and true/false items. These tables provide statistics on the response patterns of students. 
• Exemplary samples of non-multiple choice items. The 2005 Standards Packages include in a separate area an exemplary sample for all questions.