2023 HSC illness and misadventure

The illness and misadventure process supports students who are unwell, have an accident, or another misadventure at the time of a HSC exam. Learn about the number of school applications in 2023.

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About the statistics

Students who have their illness or misadventure application upheld do not receive additional marks.

Learn more about how marks are calculated.

Summary of applications

Use the dropdowns to view a summary of illness and misadventure applications in 2023. 

The total number of exam students refers to the number of students undertaking one or more HSC examinations in a given year.

HSC courses that do not have examinations include Life Skills courses designed for students with disability, some Vocational Education and Training (VET) endorsed courses, and other endorsed courses.

Students who lodged applications
Number of students lodging applicationsPercentage of HSC students
4,0586%
Exam course and component applications
Number of student exam courses applied forNumber of student exam components applied forNumber of student exam components upheldPercentage exam components upheld
7,7999,4418,11986%
Fully or partially upheld courses and mark changes
Number of courses fully or partially upheldNumber of course mark changesPercentage of fully or partially upheld courses with mark changes
6,6924,98675%

Using the table

Use the search box to search by school name or locality. Alternatively, you can filter alphabetically by school name.

The data for a small number of schools have been removed to protect the identity of individual students.

Illness and misadventure statistics from previous years

NESA has published school statistics for illness and misadventure applications from 2019.

A small number of schools are not visible in the documents to protect the identity of individual students, or where the percentages may be misleading due to the small candidature of the school.

View or download the statistics from previous years:

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