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The honesty of students in completing assessment tasks, exams, and tests underpins the integrity of the HSC. Students, teachers and others who guide them are responsible for knowing and complying with NESA’s rules regarding malpractice. These rules are outlined in this guide and across related NESA policies including those for All My Own Work, Course completions, HSC minimum standard, and HSC practical exams. You should also read your course syllabus for course specific requirements.
You must be honest when completing all your school-based assessment tasks, exams and submitted works.
You must acknowledge any part of your work that was written, created or developed by someone other than you. This includes any material from other sources, for example:
For practical works, this includes work undertaken by others.
You do not need to formally acknowledge material that you learnt from your teacher in class.
Malpractice, otherwise known as cheating, is any attempt to gain an unfair advantage over other students. Malpractice in any form including plagiarism, collusion, misrepresentation and breach of assessment conditions is unacceptable. We treat allegations of malpractice very seriously and there are significant penalties for detected malpractice in HSC exams. If you are found to have engaged in malpractice in your HSC exam, it may result in penalties such as a reduction in marks and the cancellation of courses leading to the possible loss of your HSC. Serious and deliberate acts of malpractice amount to corrupt conduct and may be reported to the Independent Commission Against Corruption.
Some examples of malpractice are:
providing fraudulent evidence in applications for disability provisions or illness/misadventure
If you are suspected of plagiarism, you will need to show that all unacknowledged work is entirely your own. You might need to:
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