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HSC Maths Past Papers

Official NESA maths past papers and marking guidelines from 2015 to 2025 for every HSC maths course, in one place: Maths Standard 2, Advanced, Extension 1 and Extension 2. Choose your course below to open the papers on the NESA website.

Maths Standard 2 past papers

Also includes Maths Standard 1.

Practical, real-world maths: financial maths, measurement, statistics, networks and algebra. Papers from 2019 replace the old General Maths course.

NESA exam papers 2015 to 2025

Papers, marking guidelines and marking feedback for every year.

Standard papers 2019–2025General Maths papers 2015–2018

From 2019, Maths Standard replaced General Maths.

Maths Advanced past papers

Calculus, functions, trigonometry, exponentials and logarithms, and statistics. A common choice for students heading to university courses that use maths.

NESA exam papers 2015 to 2025

Papers, marking guidelines and marking feedback for every year.

Advanced papers 2020–2025Mathematics papers 2015–2019

Papers from 2020 onwards match the current syllabus.

Maths Extension 1 past papers

Taken alongside Advanced: proof by induction, vectors, further calculus, the binomial distribution and more.

NESA exam papers 2015 to 2025

Papers, marking guidelines and marking feedback for every year.

Extension 1 papers 2020–2025Extension 1 papers 2015–2019

Papers from 2020 onwards match the current syllabus.

Maths Extension 2 past papers

The most demanding HSC maths course: complex numbers, proof, mechanics and further integration.

NESA exam papers 2015 to 2025

Papers, marking guidelines and marking feedback for every year.

Extension 2 papers 2020–2025Extension 2 papers 2015–2019

Papers from 2020 onwards match the current syllabus.

HSC maths past papers are published by NESA, the NSW Education Standards Authority, and open on its website.

How to use past papers to lift your mark

Doing past papers isn't enough on its own. How you use them makes the difference.

  1. Do them under exam conditions. Time yourself, no notes, no checking answers halfway. That's the only way to find out what you can really do on the day.
  2. Mark with the marking guidelines. Check how marks are awarded, not just whether your final answer is right. Many marks are lost on missing working, not wrong answers.
  3. Keep an error log. Write down every question you lost marks on and why: a concept gap, a careless error or running out of time. Patterns show up quickly.
  4. Redo the questions you got wrong. Come back a week later and try them again without looking. If you can do them cold, the gap is closed.
  5. Work by topic first, full papers later. Practise questions topic by topic during the year, then sit full papers in the lead-up to trials and the HSC.

Questions.

Where can I find HSC maths past papers?
NESA, the NSW Education Standards Authority, publishes past HSC maths papers free on its website. The links on this page take you straight to the official NESA papers for each maths course, along with the marking guidelines.
Do HSC maths past papers come with answers?
NESA publishes marking guidelines with each paper. They give the answers to the multiple-choice questions and show how marks are awarded in the written section. They don't include full worked solutions, so use them to check your working and see where marks are won and lost.
Where can I find HSC trial papers?
Trial exams are written by each school, so NESA doesn't publish them. Your child's teacher may be able to share past trials from their school. The official NESA HSC papers above are still the best practice, because they're written to the exact standard of the real exam.
Can I practise HSC maths questions by topic?
NESA's past papers are full exams rather than sorted by topic. To practise by topic, pick out the questions on one topic from several years of papers and check them against the marking guidelines. Topic practice works best during the year, with full papers saved for the lead-up to trials and the HSC.
Are older HSC maths papers still useful?
Yes, but use them with care. Maths Advanced, Extension 1 and Extension 2 papers from 2020 onwards match the current syllabus. Papers from older courses, like General Maths and the previous Mathematics course, still have plenty of useful questions, but some topics have changed or been removed.
When should my child start doing past papers?
Start with individual questions on each topic as soon as it has been taught, then move to full papers under timed conditions in the lead-up to trials. Doing full papers only in the last few weeks is too late to fix the gaps they reveal.

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