TASC

TASC have shown a blatant disregard for the mental wellbeing of students across the board, restricting creative control and causing to an overall downward trend in mental health.

The one question I studied for over and over, writing practice exams for Section A for Drama 3 wasn't even on the sheet of questions. My teacher told me previously that it would certainly be there as every other year it's been on there. Great job TASC

You can't just change things in the exams and then not be bothered to give an example essay or whatnot.Do this BEFORE making sure that all your documents have the right shade of green on them.

Insists on sticking with an outdated and blatantly idiotic assessment scheme to the detriment of markers and students alike. Perpetuates a system between exams and revision that is inherently self-destructive and results in the examiners continually raising the difficulty year after year in an effort to counter the effects of the methods they encourage. I will burn them with fire.

The consistency of question difficultly on set exam papers between classes and years is shocking. I am displeased.

Tasmania's education system is a joke. why are all the popular, harder subject exams grouped together, i understand that more people do them so it takes longer to mark, but at least give me a day in between my english and maths exams, maths is hard i need a free day before it

I sat the Accounting Level 3 and General Maths 3 exams on the very same day. 6 hours of content heavy and complex subjects is tricky do do on the same day.... Also, the layout of the accounting exam was changed significantly since the Mid year exams, the area where you are meant to show debits and credit and relevant journal entries wasn`t set out clearly, from memory there was no place to show an increase or decrease in a debit or credit entry.

Yet another year of TASC making students suicidal. Good job guys! And an extra special shout out to the English Literature exam that managed to have questions about everything BUT the texts studied! You’ve outdone yourselves yet again.

TASC has failed to put the email I declared with them on my exam entry slip two years in a row (present slip has been working on getting fixed for a week) and the marking rubrics provided to the exam markers are flawed. This organisation and many of it's subjects are in desperate need of a restructure.

I have just completed Year 12 at Rosny College. Having done 5 pre-tertiary subjects this year, partially because of TASC, I have been under a little bit of stress, to say the least. I did not perform well in Year 11 due to health issues, so my plan was to count 4 pre-tertiary subjects from Year 12 and then Maths Methods 3 from Year 10. This appeared to line up with the ATAR requirements, so I began Year 12 with this plan in motion. Only several weeks into the year, I began getting conflicting responses from students and teachers as to what this would mean for my ATAR. I decided to ask TASC directly about this. One person at TASC told me that my mark from MM3 would contribute to my ATAR, and another person told me the opposite. If the latter was true, then I would essentially be receiving my ATAR from 4 subjects instead of 5. I decided to retake MM3 for good measure, as I did not want to get a nasty shock at the end of the year. Considering I had completed the course previously, my situation could have been worse. However, this extra subject brought many unwelcome changes, the main one of course being that I had no free line to study or sleep in. Being an insomniac, the absence of a morning to sleep freely during was detrimental. More recently, I realised I was going to need to study more past exams to achieve the grades I wanted, so I went to the TASC page for my subject to find more. To my dismay, the past exams only went back 4 years. One of my teachers informed me that there used to be more on the website, meaning they actually put effort into taking down past exams. I just cannot fathom why they would do that, as it only results in negatives, there is not a single positive that comes from this. As I was studying a past exam that I had sourced elsewhere, one of their answers didn’t match up with mine. I spent a good 5 minutes trying to figure out what I had done wrong to no avail, so I moved on. In the second part of the question, they used the value that I had determined in the previous part. So, someone actually looked at this, saw that the value had changed halfway through the question, and thought it was fine. Their exam timetable planning is atrocious as well. As has been mentioned on here, one year the Maths Specialised and Physics students had their exams on the same day.TLDR: I received conflicting information from TASC employees. They actively put effort into removing study resources. Their official solutions are just plain weird sometimes. Poor exam timetable planning. They are so underfunded they make an American with medical bills look like Jeff Bezos.Final verdict: TASC makes me want to vomit.I will return to this page to abuse TASC some more if I don’t get accepted into my university courses for not having completed a pre-tertiary English course, or if my results get bungled.