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The rules for using PrepHSC. You agree to them when you tick the Terms box at sign-up.
PrepHSC is run by a partnership of Aditya Tamhankar and Pranay Mittal. "We", "us" and "our" mean that partnership.
PrepHSC is a place to practise for the HSC. You answer questions, get a mark, and see the skill behind each mark you lose.
Marks on PrepHSC are practice only. They are not official HSC results, and we do not promise any HSC result.
PrepHSC is not affiliated with or endorsed by NESA.
You must be 13 or over to use PrepHSC.
If you are under 18, your parent or guardian must know you are signing up, and must agree to these Terms before you buy Pro. At sign-up, you tick a box to say you are 18 or over, or that your parent or guardian knows you are signing up.
We do not ask how old you are. We rely on what you tell us at sign-up. We do not check your age or contact your parent or guardian.
The Pricing page shows what Pro costs. Prices are in Australian dollars.
Pro gives you written answers marked against the criteria, within the limits below.
You pay through Stripe, which runs the payment pages. Pro renews automatically, every month or every year, and you are charged at each renewal until you cancel.
If you are charged twice by mistake, email us at support@prephsc.com.au and we refund the extra charge.
Every written answer costs real money to mark, so limits apply on every plan, including Pro:
If you reach a limit, we tell you and save your answer so you can send it later.
Marking can also pause if a monthly marking budget is reached. Your answer stays safe and is marked when marking starts again.
You can cancel at any time from your Account page, which opens Stripe's billing portal.
You keep Pro until the end of the month or year you have paid for, and you are not charged again. Then your account moves to Free. Cancelling does not refund the time left, but your rights under the Australian Consumer Law still apply. If a payment has failed, cancelling does not bring Pro back.
Written answers are marked by AI, not by a teacher. Multiple choice answers are checked automatically.
AI marking can be wrong. It can misread handwriting, or miss a good answer written in an unusual way. Treat a mark as practice feedback, not as a real HSC mark.
Some answers are checked by our team: the ones the system cannot mark safely, and photos it cannot read. No person checks other answers before you get your mark. We do not promise how long a check takes. If a person finds no real attempt, the answer gets 0 marks.
If marking fails, you can try again a limited number of times.
If you think a mark on a written answer is wrong, choose Flag this mark on your result. You can flag each answer once, and a person on our team checks it. The mark can go up, go down or stay the same, and that person has the last word. You cannot flag an answer a person has already marked.
Rankings compare your timed papers with other PrepHSC students. They are not an official NSW, HSC or ATAR rank, and they do not predict your results.
A paper counts when you sit it in one go, every answer is marked, and no flagged mark on it is still being checked. Your score in a period is the average of your best 3 counted papers, and you need 2 to be ranked. If a person changes a mark, your score changes with it.
Groups show nicknames only. A group's owner can remove members and rename or delete the group. You can leave any group at any time. You can be in up to 10 groups, own up to 5, and a group can have up to 50 members.
We can turn study groups and rankings off, or change how they work, at any time.
Your answers stay yours. You let us store them, mark them, show them back to you, and read them to check and improve our marking, as the Privacy Policy explains.
You can delete your account from your Account page. You need your password, or a code we email you if you sign in with Google or Apple, and you cannot undo it.
If you are on Pro, deleting your account ends your subscription straight away, with no refund for time left.
We also delete accounts with no sign-in for 2 years, after a warning email, as the Privacy Policy explains.
Nothing in these Terms takes away a right or remedy you have under the Australian Consumer Law.
If a change to these Terms affects you, we email you at least 14 days before it starts. We also post the new version on this page.
If you are on Pro, you can cancel before the change starts.
To ask a question or make a complaint, email us at support@prephsc.com.au. Tell us what happened and what you want us to do about it.
For a complaint about your personal information, the Privacy Policy explains what to do if we do not fix it.