NSW HSC · Years 7–12

Every dot point.
Marked the waythe paper marks it.

Dux maps your course dot point by dot point, shows you which ones were never taught, and trains you on the command words and marking habits that decide your band.

Free tier: one subject, 20 questions a day. No card, no trial timer.

Marked response
5 marks

Chemistry · Module 5

A plant operating the Contact Process faces a new sulfur dioxide emission limit. Evaluate the compromises required.

Your answer · 96 words

The Contact Process needs high pressure and a catalyst to reach a useful rate, but the forward reaction is exothermic so higher temperature lowers yield. A lower temperature improves yield but slows the rate, and a platinum catalyst is more expensive than vanadium pentoxide.

Structural debrief

Band 4
  • No judgement is stated. “Evaluate” requires a position and a condition under which it fails.
  • Length is below the 5-mark expectation by roughly 30 words.
Next actionRewrite with a judgement →
551
HSC dot points mapped to the syllabus, one row each
43
HSC courses with a blueprint and mark allocation
20
NESA command words decoded into expected depth
100
Marks in every assembled paper, Section I and II
01The gap

Nobody fails because they are lazy. Sometimes the class just ran out of term.

A syllabus is a contract. Every dot point in it is assessable, and the exam will not apologise for the ones your class never reached. Dux gives you a frank inventory of what is still yours to learn, and the shortest honest path to each one.

What you can already do

Verified by answers under time, not by pages opened or videos watched.

What was never taught

Named explicitly, so it stops being a vague feeling of being behind.

Chemistry · syllabus coverage

Tracked per dot point, not per subject

Live

Module 5 · Equilibrium

74%

Module 6 · Acid / Base

58%

Module 7 · Organic

81%

Module 8 · Applying Ideas

33%

Secure Attempted Never taught
02Method

Three passes, and none of them are watching a video.

Study platforms usually optimise for time spent. Dux optimises for the number of dot points you can answer unaided, which is the only number the exam cares about.

01

Diagnose against the syllabus

Every dot point in your course is tracked separately. Not “Chemistry — 62%”. You see the exact dot points you have never attempted, the ones you attempted once, and the ones you can already do under time.

02

Drill the ones that move your band

Questions are written in the shape the paper uses — calculation, short answer, extended response — at the mark value the paper gives them. Not a hundred one-mark multiple choice items with a motivational mascot.

03

Get marked, not graded

Written answers are read against the marking bands for that command word: whether you made a judgement, cited the stimulus, and wrote enough for the marks on offer.

03Examiner literacy

Markers are not mysterious. They are tired, and they follow a rubric.

Every year the same four moves separate a Band 5 from a Band 6, and almost nobody teaches them. Dux puts the brief in front of you before you answer, then debriefs you against it after.

  • Judgement“Evaluate” without a stated position cannot reach the top band, however much content is present.
  • Direct comparisonDescribing A, then describing B, is not comparing. Markers cap it mid-band.
  • Stimulus citationIf a table or graph is given, a top-band answer names the data it used.
  • Length to marksA 7-mark response that is a paragraph is a 4-mark response in a longer paragraph.
Marked response
5 marks

Chemistry · Module 5

A plant operating the Contact Process faces a new sulfur dioxide emission limit. Evaluate the compromises required.

Your answer · 96 words

The Contact Process needs high pressure and a catalyst to reach a useful rate, but the forward reaction is exothermic so higher temperature lowers yield. A lower temperature improves yield but slows the rate, and a platinum catalyst is more expensive than vanadium pentoxide.

Structural debrief

Band 4
  • No judgement is stated. “Evaluate” requires a position and a condition under which it fails.
  • Length is below the 5-mark expectation by roughly 30 words.
Next actionRewrite with a judgement →
04Inside

Six things, done end to end.

No shelf of half-built features. If it is listed here, it works on real content today.

Gap analysis, per dot point

See what the syllabus still owes you — and what it does not.

Written responses, 3–9 marks

Generated against real mark weights, with band descriptors.

Command-word coaching

All 20 NESA command words, each with the depth it demands.

Before and after feedback

A brief before you answer, a structural debrief after.

Full paper assembly

Section I and Section II, 100 marks, timed like the real thing.

Progress you can verify

Mastery is earned by answers, not time spent in the app.

05Coverage

Start with the course you are actually sitting.

43 HSC courses are mapped to the syllabus, with Chemistry and Mathematics Advanced fully decomposed to the dot point and the mark.

Mathematics AdvancedMathematics Extension 1English AdvancedChemistryPhysicsBiologyEconomicsBusiness StudiesModern HistoryLegal StudiesGeographyPDHPE+31 more
06Pricing

Less than one tutoring hour a month.

Free forever if you only need one subject. Paid plans add unlimited subjects, unlimited questions and full paper generation.

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Start where it counts

Open the dot points you were never taught.

One subject, free, no card. You will see your real coverage in about four minutes, including the parts nobody has covered yet.