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Is A Level Physics harder?
Objectively speaking A Level physics is easier for STEM students due to the HSC's favoring of shitty essay extended response, which makes or breaks your band 6 result.

In addition, A Level covers far more stuff and also at a deeper level (quantitatively deep, regurgitating paragraphs from a textbook doesn't count as deep at all).
 

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Pre 2000s HSC Physics exams weren't extraordinary, they were the minimum standard of what high school physics should be... Now, it's complete bullshit and embarrassing.

2u Physics 3u Engineering science aka physics
What's notable to me is that the old physics exams used the keyword briefly numerous times for qualitative questions (which is the norm in physics exams) and also only giving 4 lines maximum for describing questions. (which is again the norm). What the keyword "Briefly" means to me is a fuck you to wordcels. In addition, quantitative questions comprised 85% of the pre 2000s HSC physics exams in comparison to 30-40% now. The quantitative questions were also generally deeper than the current extremely surface level quantitative questions. There were 0% essay style regurgitation or history questions if you chose an actual elective (rotation or engineering physics)

Here's an example of a rotational mechanics HSC question, a topic which should've never been removed.
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Gordon Stanley, is the reason the 21st century HSC program is so fucking awful, from the miserable English syllabus to the subpar sciences we do right now.
 
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Left-wing influence has destroyed HSC Physics from its pre 2000s former glory
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The retarded BS history stuff we do in HSC physics right now was literally optional back then, people who were actually interested in physics would've picked rotational mechanics or physics in technology. Board of Studies literally acknowledged these topics as History. Board of Studies should've never added this had they known it was going to culminate in the current shit stain 21st century syllabus we have today.

NESA doesn't even acknowledge module 7 and 8 topics as history. Well NESA, just cause you don't call these topics history anymore, it doesn't make it an actual physics topic. NESA is a fucking miserable corporation. I literally had hope when I saw that they were going to release a new syllabus soon, only for it to be an even more regressed version. Welp, HSC is and always will be a shit program ever since the y2k.

Left-wingers shouldn't be allowed to influence fucking STEM subjects. Add whatever the fuck you want in the modern history syllabus, including anti-fascism and indigenous propaganda, I don't give a shit, but don't fucking touch STEM. This destruction of actual science education is quite literally the anti-intellectualism the left likes to moan about - this time, it's not trivial. Who the fuck gives a shit about the arts? I didn't fucking chose physics to learn history. I'm actually fucking pissed.

To deflect this change as unrelated to left-wing politics is completely delusional. The favouring of the humanities and arts over STEM is inherently left-wing. It's even more clear when they just introduced aboriginal identity politics (obviously left-wing) into the 2027 Physics syllabus.

The HSC has been tough and fucking miserable to me due to the fact it favours absolutely useless English style essay writing, memorisation and regurgitation.

Honestly, how the fuck are incredibly prestigious universities overseas trusting the HSC for entrance into a uni of the same calibre as University of Cambridge or Imperial College? The fact that cambridge says "This program may not be rigorous enough" for certain qualifications in certain countries, yet allows something as shit as the HSC is crazy. For science, HSC syllabus is the LEAST rigorous in the entire globe (essay writing and regurgitation doesn't fucking make it rigorous in any shape or form).

Side note: Currently, all the physics Olympiad kids in Australia come from Vic, not NSW. If that's not telling about our dog-fuck syllabus I don't know what is.

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There was a point in time where HSC Physics used to be quite rigorous, now it amounts to nothing.
 
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HSC BIOLOGY IS A FUCKING JOKE, AP (US) AND VCE (VICTORIA) ARE MODELS FOR AN ACTUAL BIOLOGY SYLLABUS.
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THIS IS ALL FROM THE 2024 PAPER. ONE FUCKING PAPER WITH THIS MUCH PURE REGURGITATION. THIS ALSO ISNT COMPREHENSIVE, THERES NUMEROUS MORE QUESTIONS LIKE THIS IN THE SAME EXACT PAPER
HSC BIOLOGY IS A FUCKING JOKE

Just take a fucking look at the VCE syllabus, the questions there aren't FUCKING asking you to memorise case studies unlike the fucking HSC, IT ALSO DOESNT FUCKING ASK A POLITICAL HUMANITIES QUESTION ON FUCKING ETHICS
 
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I didn't expect it to get this fucking bad 💀 I genuinely always thought only Physics was the dumbed down science before looking at other states' and countries' papers. NESA needs to fucking do a meeting or some shit, this is fucking unacceptable.
 

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A fucking 7 marker 30 liner on fucking ethics, are you fucking kidding me? 20 marks on fucking expecting me to pull out random examples from my fucking ass?

The thing is, biology was never MEANT to be a fucking boring as shit rote learning subject. IT was genuinely meant to be fun, like the VCE
 

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bro do you even do bio?
nah i used to tho. it's crazy how prelim sciences are much more rigorous than the actual final hsc exam. Also this extends to chemistry as well. HSC Chemistry still has too much stupid bureaucracy just like HSC physics and bio when compared to VCE or overseas examinations like A Level and AP.
 

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can i ask if your physics and english and maths was compressed or accelerated?
 

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The real reason why NESA keeps involving science with politics at the expense of course rigor
I'm certain that the only reasons NESA keeps dumbing down the syllabus is to: one, indoctrinate the youth with left-wing agenda; two, lobbying from low intelligence science teachers who aren't smart enough to teach real science - after all, why as a science teacher would I want to teach a more cognitively demanding course, if I still get paid the same?; three, bar people who aren't good at hsc english style writing from a good university. Fuck them
 
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