Our HSC Master Curriculum is a cornerstone of how we support our students to flourish. It’s thoughtfully designed around the New South Wales Compressed HSC curriculum, which NESA has approved for Pal Buddhist School. We've carefully planned this curriculum to help each student achieve their best possible HSC results, allowing them to focus without the added pressure of preparing for six exams all at once.

To truly understand our approach with the compressed curriculum, it’s helpful to see how it fits into our overall commitment to preparing your children for further learning and their role as thoughtful adults in our community. Our aim is for all students to build a strong foundation of knowledge and skills by the end of Year 10. Then, in their final two years, our students can really blossom as they deepen and use this understanding. A key part of this is enabling our students to concentrate their efforts. We do this by gradually reducing the number of subjects and teachers they work with. This creates a wonderful opportunity for students to build stronger connections with their teachers and peers. When you're not constantly moving between different teachers, subjects, and classrooms every hour, you have more valuable time to develop a deeper understanding of a smaller number of subjects.

This approach also offers important opportunities and support for our students. Firstly, they will sit the exams for their initial three subjects at the end of Year 11 and receive their results at the same time as all other students. This valuable feedback allows students to gain a clearer picture of their progress and empowers them as they seek conditional or unconditional entry into their chosen university. Depending on their individual journey, this can be an invaluable chance to maximise their achievements.

In their second year, they complete another two or three subjects from start to finish and sit their final HSC exams, leading to their ATAR. This time, our students can draw upon the experience and insights they gained in the previous year.

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