Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The Higher School Certificate, or HSC for short, is the final examination in secondary school education in New South Wales, Australia. It is administered by the Board of Studies, and it is used as an aid to calculate the University Admissions Index (UAI) - which is calculated by the Universities Admissions Centre (UAC), for controlling university admissions. Unfortunately, it is perceived that many people place great pressure on the students to perform well in the HSC. It is believed by the students thus that the HSC is an extremely important examination, causing stress in some cases, and even worse psychological strain. See also: Board of Studies This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.