MSCW
HSC: All My Own Work
The HSC: All My Own Work (HSC:AMOW) program is designed for Year 10 to prepare you for your Preliminary and HSC years.
It gives you the information you need to help you follow the principles and practices of good scholarship.
It will help you understand and value what is ethical behaviour when you are locating and using information as part of your HSC studies.
It is a mandatory requirement of NESA that all students in NSW * complete the Program prior to being enrolled in their Preliminary year
NESA HSC AMOW
1. Scholarship principles and practices
3. Plagiarism
4. Copyright
Each of the above modules contain:
Information and advice on the module focus questions
Quiz questions
Summary (to be best prepared, focus on this information)
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Link to a glossary
Links to relevant websites
HSC AMOW Assessments 2023
Each assessment opportunity opens on the Friday and closes on the following Wednesday
@ 4pm. Your results will be emailed to you ASAP.
(Opens 17th November and CLOSED 4pm 22nd November)
(Opens 24th November and CLOSED 4pm 29th November )
(Opens 1st December and CLOSED 3pm 6th December)
Once you've passed any one assessment (with a score of 80% or 40/50 or more) YOU DO NOT NEED TO DO ANOTHER.
Don't leave your run to the last moment
Read and understand the information on the NESA site, and attempt the early Assessments.
Make your first attempt on Assessment 1, not on Assessment 3
If you haven't passed an Assessment by the end of Assessment 3rd, 13th December is the date of the compulsory seminar to help you with the content and give you another opportunity to pass an assessment
AMOW FAQs
1. Do I have to do HSC: AMOW if I'm not going on to Year 11 at MSCW?
Yes, if you are going to another school
Yes, if your parent/carer hasn't formally (in writing) notified the school that you are leaving
No, if you are not going on to another school AND your parent/carer has formally (in writing) notified the school that you are leaving
2. Is there a penalty for failing a test?
No. You just have to try again on another test.
HINTS AND TIPS
1. Nothing will help if you don't read the questions carefully.
2. It's the expression of ideas that is protected by copyright, NOT the ideas themselves . Ideas are NOT protected by copyright.
3. The work of musicians, designers and songwriters are their INTELLECTUAL property.
4. Copyright is FREE and it DOESN'T need to be registered or to have the Copyright symbol on it.
5. You MUST acknowledge all material (information, pictures, ideas, data, etc) that comes from other people, even if it is collected verbally (ie. in an interview). You DON'T have to acknowledge your own original ideas, thoughts, work, experimental results, or information that is common knowledge (eg. the sun rises in the east and sets in the north).
6. It's COLLUSION when someone else adds to or changes your work with your knowledge before submission. Collusion is bad - co-operative and collaborative learning are both good!
7. Make sure you know what can be copied by students without permission.