2019 course enrolments

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About the statistics

These statistics represent course enrolments for the 2019 HSC cohort.

The data displays the total number of students enrolled in a course, and the percentage of male and female students enrolled in each course.

Note that male and female percentages may not add to 100 due to rounding.

The data is taken from the 1 September 2019.

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General and Languages enrolments
Vocational Education and Training (VET)
Life Skills.

General and Languages
VET
Life Skills

2019 HSC general course and Languages enrolments

These tables outline enrolments in HSC Board Developed courses, excluding, Vocational Education and Training (VET) and Life Skills courses. These courses are externally examined. For English Studies and Mathematics General 1, the external examination is optional.

View the course enrolments for the following learning areas:

English
Mathematics
Science
Human Society and Its Environment
Languages
Technology
Creative Arts
Personal Development, Health and Physical Education.

English

Course name	Units	Male	Male percentage	Female	Female percentage	Total
English Advanced	2	10519	41%	14847	59%	25366
English EAL/D	2	1088	50%	1092	50%	2180
English Extension 1	1	1063	30%	2485	70%	3548
English Extension 2	1	375	28%	959	72%	1334
English Standard	2	15055	49%	15580	51%	30635
English Studies	2	5076	59%	3501	41%	8577

Mathematics

Course name	Units	Male	Male percentage	Female	Female percentage	Total
Mathematics	2	9191	52%	8380	48%	17571
Mathematics Extension 1	2	5228	58%	3795	42%	9023
Mathematics Extension 2	2	2039	64%	1130	36%	3169
Mathematics Standard 1	2	2958	58%	2138	42%	5096
Mathematics Standard 2	2	14505	48%	15658	52%	30163

Science

Course name	Units	Male	Male percentage	Female	Female percentage	Total
Biology	2	6954	37%	12013	63%	18967
Chemistry	2	5536	53%	4918	47%	10454
Earth and Environmental Science	2	1083	52%	981	48%	2064
Investigating Science	2	1699	59%	1172	41%	2871
Physics	2	6582	77%	1947	23%	8529
Science Extension	1	320	46%	382	54%	702

Human Society and Its Environment

Course name	Units	Male	Male percentage	Female	Female percentage	Total
Aboriginal Studies	2	222	28%	564	72%	786
Ancient History	2	3094	42%	4305	58%	7399
Business Studies	2	9691	54%	8246	46%	17937
Economics	2	3418	66%	1744	34%	5162
Geography	2	2190	51%	2063	49%	4253
History Extension	1	692	37%	1200	63%	1892
Legal Studies	2	3959	37%	6823	63%	10782
Modern History	2	5586	48%	5946	52%	11532
Society and Culture	2	881	18%	3922	82%	4803
Studies of Religion I	1	3939	45%	4727	55%	8666
Studies of Religion II	2	2187	36%	3921	64%	6108

Languages

Course name	Units	Male	Male percentage	Female	Female percentage	Total
Arabic Beginners	2	0	0%	2	100%	2
Arabic Continuers	2	114	35%	213	65%	327
Arabic Extension	1	28	24%	87	76%	115
Armenian Continuers	2	13	57%	10	43%	23
Chinese Beginners	2	11	28%	29	73%	40
Chinese Continuers	2	85	48%	93	52%	178
Chinese in Context	2	28	26%	79	74%	107
Chinese and Literature	2	258	44%	330	56%	588
Chinese Extension	1	18	67%	9	33%	27
Classical Greek Continuers	2	5	26%	14	74%	19
Classical Greek Extension	1	4	31%	9	69%	13
Classical Hebrew Continuers	2	3	20%	12	80%	15
Classical Hebrew Extension	1	2	18%	9	82%	11
Croatian Continuers	2	4	31%	9	69%	13
Dutch Continuers	2	0	0%	4	100%	4
Filipino Continuers	2	3	43%	4	57%	7
French Beginners	2	122	25%	361	75%	483
French Continuers	2	176	27%	474	73%	650
French Extension	1	57	32%	120	68%	177
German Beginners	2	35	36%	61	64%	96
German Continuers	2	98	47%	111	53%	209
German Extension	1	25	53%	22	47%	47
Hindi Continuers	2	10	53%	9	47%	19
Hungarian Continuers	2	1	17%	5	83%	6
Indonesian Beginners	2	11	37%	19	63%	30
Indonesian Continuers	2	21	28%	53	72%	74
Indonesian in Context	2	3	33%	6	67%	9
Indonesian and Literature	2	0	0%	8	100%	8
Indonesian Extension	1	10	71%	4	29%	14
Italian Beginners	2	76	27%	201	73%	277
Italian Continuers	2	92	34%	175	66%	267
Italian Extension	1	20	38%	33	62%	53
Japanese Beginners	2	266	39%	416	61%	682
Japanese Continuers	2	220	35%	402	65%	622
Japanese in Context	2	10	37%	17	63%	27
Japanese and Literature	2	8	57%	6	43%	14
Japanese Extension	1	45	32%	96	68%	141
Khmer Continuers	2	2	18%	9	82%	11
Korean Beginners	2	18	15%	99	85%	117
Korean Continuers	2	2	29%	5	71%	7
Korean in Context	2	15	32%	32	68%	47
Korean and Literature	2	8	36%	14	64%	22
Latin Continuers	2	71	54%	60	46%	131
Latin Extension	1	45	53%	40	47%	85
Macedonian Continuers	2	6	50%	6	50%	12
Modern Greek Beginners	2	35	40%	52	60%	87
Modern Greek Continuers	2	28	35%	52	65%	80
Modern Greek Extension	1	13	31%	29	69%	42
Modern Hebrew Continuers	2	16	41%	23	59%	39
Persian Continuers	2	8	27%	22	73%	30
Polish Continuers	2	9	53%	8	47%	17
Portuguese Continuers	2	7	33%	14	67%	21
Punjabi Continuers	2	1	7%	14	93%	15
Russian Continuers	2	10	34%	19	66%	29
Serbian Continuers	2	8	32%	17	68%	25
Spanish Beginners	2	55	21%	206	79%	261
Spanish Continuers	2	56	33%	116	67%	172
Spanish Extension	1	14	29%	34	71%	48
Swedish Continuers	2	3	38%	5	63%	8
Tamil Continuers	2	7	30%	16	70%	23
Turkish Continuers	2	12	38%	20	63%	32
Vietnamese Continuers	2	84	47%	94	53%	178

Technology

Course name	Units	Male	Male percentage	Female	Female percentage	Total
Agriculture	2	719	44%	904	56%	1623
Design and Technology	2	1862	57%	1387	43%	3249
Engineering Studies	2	2101	92%	190	8%	2291
Food Technology	2	756	24%	2397	76%	3153
Industrial Technology	2	4884	85%	896	16%	5780
Information Processes and Technology	2	1783	83%	361	17%	2144
Software Design and Development	2	1624	89%	195	11%	1819
Textiles and Design	2	38	3%	1247	97%	1285

Creative Arts

Course name	Units	Male	Male percentage	Female	Female percentage	Total
Dance	2	46	5%	930	95%	976
Drama	2	1438	35%	2665	65%	4103
Music 1	2	2364	50%	2357	50%	4721
Music 2	2	362	49%	370	51%	732
Music Extension	1	204	49%	215	51%	419
Visual Arts	2	2306	27%	6302	73%	8608

Personal Development, Health and Physical Education

Course name	Units	Male	Male percentage	Female	Female percentage	Total
Community and Family Studies	2	842	10%	7827	90%	8669
Personal Development, Health and Physical Education	2	6995	44%	8778	56%	15773

2019 VET course enrolments

This table outlines unique enrolments in HSC VET Industry Curriculum Frameworks, which are delivered by Registered Training Organisations (RTOs), including schools and colleges as part of a school system RTO, TAFE NSW and other providers. Each

VET Industry Curriculum Framework includes multiple courses. VET Industry Curriculum Frameworks have optional external examinations.

VET Industry Curriculum Frameworks

Course name	Male	Male percentage	Female	Female percentage	Total
Automotive	506	93%	36	7%	542
Business Services	783	35%	1468	65%	2251
Construction	3303	96%	144	4%	3447
Electrotechnology	479	98%	12	2%	491
Entertainment Industry	572	52%	534	48%	1106
Financial Services	89	70%	39	30%	128
Hospitality	2226	32%	4823	68%	7049
Human Services	69	8%	794	92%	863
Information and Digital Technology	638	86%	105	14%	743
Metal and Engineering	694	94%	44	6%	738
Primary Industries	623	54%	540	46%	1163
Retail Services	554	32%	1175	68%	1729
Tourism, Travel and Events	44	12%	314	88%	358

2019 Life Skills course enrolments

This table outlines enrolments in HSC Life Skills courses, which are available for students with disabilities for whom the regular outcomes and content are not appropriate. These courses are Board Developed and meet the requirements for the award of the HSC.

Course name	Units	Male	Male percentage	Female	Female percentage	Total
Aboriginal Studies Life Skills	2	13	39%	20	61%	33
Agriculture Life Skills	2	46	66%	24	34%	70
Ancient History Life Skills	2	63	69%	28	31%	91
Business and Economics Life Skills	2	45	59%	31	41%	76
Chemical World Science Life Skills	2	3	75%	1	25%	4
Citizenship and Legal Studies Life Skills	2	25	64%	14	36%	39
Community and Family Studies Life Skills	2	102	46%	121	54%	223
Creative Arts Life Skills	2	281	65%	149	35%	430
Dance Life Skills	2	5	21%	19	79%	24
Design and Technology Life Skills	2	51	67%	25	33%	76
Drama Life Skills	2	53	65%	28	35%	81
Earth and Space Science Life Skills	2	39	74%	14	26%	53
English Life Skills	2	1123	66%	589	34%	1712
Food Technology Life Skills	2	243	60%	165	40%	408
Geography Life Skills	2	72	73%	27	27%	99
Human Society and its Environment Life Skills	2	403	70%	175	30%	578
Industrial Technology Life Skills	2	146	87%	22	13%	168
Information Processes and Technology Life Skills	2	43	74%	15	26%	58
Investigating Science Life Skills	2	258	74%	90	26%	348
Living World Science Life Skills	2	60	67%	30	33%	90
Mathematics Life Skills	2	1037	67%	518	33%	1555
Modern History Life Skills	2	77	69%	35	31%	112
Music Life Skills	2	98	66%	51	34%	149
Personal Development, Health & PE Life Skills	2	716	72	283	28%	999
Physical World Science Life Skills	2	11	73%	4	27%	15
Society and Culture Life Skills	2	15	47%	17	53%	32
Studies of Religion I Life Skills	1	8	38%	13	62%	21
Studies of Religion II Life Skills	2	8	42%	11	58%	19
Technology Life Skills	2	308	69%	136	31%	444
Textiles and Design Life Skills	2	9	26%	26	74%	35
Visual Arts Life Skills	2	238	55%	192	45%	430
Work and the Community Life Skills	2	643	66%	331	34%	974