A free, nightly-updated index of NSW HSC papers — trial papers, past HSC exams and school assessments — searchable, filterable and downloadable in seconds. Read any paper in your browser, take up to 200 papers home in one structured ZIP, share any selection with a single link, or let the desktop app pull the entire library in minutes at ~30 MB/s. No sign-up. No paywalls. No ads.
Full-text across subject, school, year and title. Type “Ruse ext2 2024” and land on the paper — and every filtered view is a shareable link.
Faceted filters that recount live: narrow by a year and the subject and school lists recount instantly. No dead ends, no stale numbers.
An embedded reader with a built-in study timer — 30, 60 or 90 minutes, or custom. Open a paper and its solutions side by side, turn pages together or independently, print the whole thing when you want it on paper. Nothing to install.
Drag a band across the grid to sweep papers, hit Select all, and take up to 200 files home as one ZIP that mirrors Subject/Year/ folders — solutions ride along automatically. One click turns any selection into a single link your study group can open pre-loaded.
Papers come straight from fast mirrors, so single downloads start instantly. The desktop app bulk-pulls the entire library in minutes at ~30 MB/s — queued, resumable, polite.
The free desktop app saves into your own folder structure: background queues, skip-if-exists resume, direct-to-folder saves, and offline access to everything you’ve stored.
The catalogue rebuilds itself nightly from official NESA releases and community mirrors, the app updates itself, and anyone can submit a new paper — it goes live the same day.
No accounts. No ads. No tracking. Built by one student who was tired of slow mirrors — for every HSC student in the state.
HSCPapers is an independent, study-first index of NSW Higher School Certificate material: 7,000+ trial papers, past HSC exams and school assessment tasks, organised Subject → Year → School and split into HSC (NESA past papers) and Trial (school-written).
Most downloads resolve to their source: the community mirror HSC Portal, the Board of Studies archive, and official NESA links — plus a small self-hosted set of papers from our own library. Catalogue metadata mirrors THSCOnline and rebuilds automatically every night.
🐢 Slow-route papers exist only behind THSC’s rate-limited resolver; they’re hidden by default — flip the sidebar toggle when you want everything visible.
📄 Found a paper we’re missing? Submit it — verified submissions go live self-hosted, same day.
· Share any view — search and filters live in the URL (e.g. ?q=ruse&type=trial)
· 📖 Read opens any paper in-page (paper only — ＋ Solutions shows solutions side by side, 🔗 turns pages together); the ⏱ timer keeps you honest
· Select several papers for a structured ZIP — folders arrive as Subject/Year/, solutions included
· 🔗 Share a selection — one link restores the exact same papers on anyone’s screen, ready to ZIP
· 🐢 Slow-route papers hide by default; flip the toggle when you want everything visible
· 📥 Installable — add the site to your home screen; the catalogue and recently read papers work offline
· For whole-library downloads, install the desktop app — queued, resumable, ~30 MB/s, straight into your own folders. ⭳ Get the HSCPapers desktop app
All papers remain the property of their schools/authors and NESA — this site is a free, non-commercial index and hosts no PDFs.
Rights-holders can request removal of any indexed material: we act within 24 hours, and removals are permanent (the nightly catalogue builder excludes them going forward). Full policy: TAKEDOWN.md.