Chinese Continuers
Chinese Continuers builds reading, writing and real communication in Chinese.
Little-and-often is everything; characters reward steady daily work.
Listening tasks and keeping characters and vocabulary active.
This is the spread of scaled marks across everyone who took the subject — not how hard it is. A high mean usually means a strong cohort sat it. The figures are from UAC’s latest scaling report (2025), with the year-by-year trend above.
Where might my mark scale to?
Set the HSC mark you’re aiming for. We’ll show a band of where that tends to scale — never a single number, never a prediction.
Your course mark, out of 100 — a 2-unit course.
How does HSC Chinese Continuers scale?
In the UAC Preliminary Report on the Scaling of the 2025 NSW HSC, Chinese Continuers had a scaled mean of 32.8 out of 50 per unit, and its scaled mean has been very stable over recent years. Scaling reflects how academically strong the cohort is — not how hard the subject is — and there is no exact HSC-to-scaled conversion, so it's best read as a range, never a single number.
How hard is HSC Chinese Continuers, and how much work is it?
Chinese Continuers is high effort — typically 4–5 hrs/wk. Little-and-often is everything; characters reward steady daily work. Where students most often struggle: Listening tasks and keeping characters and vocabulary active.
What does HSC Chinese Continuers build?
Chinese Continuers builds reading, writing and real communication in Chinese. It especially develops detail & recall, writing & expression, and analytical reasoning.
Who should take HSC Chinese Continuers?
Students who study consistently and enjoy communicating. It may be more of a grind for students who leave their study to the last minute.
Where’s this data from?
Scaling figures are from the UAC Preliminary Report on the Scaling of the 2025 NSW HSC (Tables A1, A3). Scaled marks are out of 50 per unit.
There is no exact HSC-to-scaled conversion — for any one HSC mark there is a range of scaled marks, which is why we only ever show a band.
The skills, effort and “who it suits” notes are Intuition Education’s editorial guidance, not UAC data.
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