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HSC subjects students are most likely to drop in year 12

May 26, 2025

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Cost of living, climate change and cybersecurity might be major challenges of our time, but the HSC courses addressing them are the ones most likely to be dropped when students start year 12.

Software design, earth and environmental science and economics are among the subjects with the highest dropout rates for HSC students. More than one-third of students who enrolled in these courses in year 11 do not continue with them in year 12.

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