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The HSC Physics syllabus is a global embarrassment, it wasn't always this way. (1 Viewer)

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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. There were 0% essay style regurgitation or history questions if you chose an actual elective (rotation or engineering physics)

In addition to having way more interesting and practical topics such as rotational mechanics
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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 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). All the physics Olympiad kids in Australia come from Vic, not NSW.

tl:dr
There was a point in time where HSC Physics used to be quite rigorous, now it amounts to nothing.
 
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