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Community & Family Studies

2
UNITS
What this subject builds

Community and Family Studies is about people, families and wellbeing, with your own research project.

Independent research
An independent research project from question to findings.
Writing & expression
Applying social and health concepts in extended responses.
Detail & recall
A broad wellbeing-focused syllabus, organised for exams.
Full skill profile
Writing & expression
Argument & persuasion
Analytical reasoning
Numeracy & modelling
Practical & lab craft
Independent research
Creativity & making
Detail & recall
Filled dots = how strongly this subject develops each quality. What do these mean?
Effort & difficulty
INTENSITY
Moderate
TYPICAL LOAD
3–4 hrs/wk

Accessible and applied, with an Independent Research Project across the year.

Where students struggle

Managing the research project and writing with enough depth.

Who it suits
Tends to thrive
Students interested in people, health and wellbeing.
May find it a grind
Students after a quantitative or highly abstract subject.
How it scales
Scaled mean (per unit)
18.5 / 50
3-YEAR STABILITY
Very stable
Scaled mean by year: 2023 18.6 −0.2 2024 18.4 +0.1 2025 18.5
0 10 20 30 40 50 mean 18.5

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.

9,992
sat it in 2025
89.9%
female
99.0
highest ATAR
Mark explorer

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.

Expected HSC mark 85 / 100
4070100

Your course mark, out of 100 — a 2-unit course.

A mark in the high 80s tends to scale to roughly
29–32 per unit / 50
Scaled marks are measured per unit, out of 50 — the standard UAC scale. There’s no exact conversion, so this is a zone, not a pinpoint.
0 10 20 30 40 50 mean 18.5
There’s no exact HSC-to-scaled conversion. Scaling depends on how the whole cohort performs each year, so treat this as a feel for the range — not a calculator.
Common questions
How does HSC Community & Family Studies scale?

In the UAC Preliminary Report on the Scaling of the 2025 NSW HSC, Community & Family Studies had a scaled mean of 18.5 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 Community & Family Studies, and how much work is it?

Community & Family Studies is moderate effort — typically 3–4 hrs/wk. Accessible and applied, with an Independent Research Project across the year. Where students most often struggle: Managing the research project and writing with enough depth.

What does HSC Community & Family Studies build?

Community and Family Studies is about people, families and wellbeing, with your own research project. It especially develops independent research, writing & expression, and detail & recall.

Who should take HSC Community & Family Studies?

Students interested in people, health and wellbeing. It may be more of a grind for students after a quantitative or highly abstract subject.

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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