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Textiles & Design

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What this subject builds

Textiles and Design centres on a major project you design, research and make.

Creativity & making
Designing and producing an ambitious Major Textiles Project.
Independent research
Investigating design, materials and the textiles industry.
Practical & lab craft
Practical making skills and technical construction.
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
High
TYPICAL LOAD
4–6 hrs/wk

A big Major Textiles Project drives the year — practical and time-hungry late on.

Where students struggle

Managing the project to deadline alongside the written work.

Who it suits
Tends to thrive
Makers who love designing and constructing.
May find it a grind
Students who underestimate the project workload.
How it scales
Scaled mean (per unit)
22.8 / 50
3-YEAR STABILITY
Very stable
Scaled mean by year: 2023 23.0 +0.3 2024 23.3 −0.5 2025 22.8
0 10 20 30 40 50 mean 22.8

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.

1,494
sat it in 2025
94.7%
female
99.8
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
28–31 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 22.8
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 Textiles & Design scale?

In the UAC Preliminary Report on the Scaling of the 2025 NSW HSC, Textiles & Design had a scaled mean of 22.8 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 Textiles & Design, and how much work is it?

Textiles & Design is high effort — typically 4–6 hrs/wk. A big Major Textiles Project drives the year — practical and time-hungry late on. Where students most often struggle: Managing the project to deadline alongside the written work.

What does HSC Textiles & Design build?

Textiles and Design centres on a major project you design, research and make. It especially develops creativity & making, independent research, and practical & lab craft.

Who should take HSC Textiles & Design?

Makers who love designing and constructing. It may be more of a grind for students who underestimate the project workload.

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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