Changes made to comply with NESA Copyright Policy
On 15 June 2018, I was contacted by NESA informing me that HSCPastPapers.com breached NESA Copyright Policy, which states:
No part of the Material may be reproduced in Australia or in any other country by any process, electronic or otherwise, in any material form, or transmitted to any other person or stored electronically in any form without the prior written permission of NESA
On further clarification, it was stated that it is a principle “that the HSC Examination papers should only appear on the NESA website”.
It should be noted that HSCPastPapers.com never stored any NESA documents or made copies of these documents – this can be easily seen when viewing the source code, which has always been publicly available on GitHub: https://github.com/notsidney/hscpastpapers
As such, HSCPastPapers.com will no longer embed PDF files from NESA’s website:
Instead, it will only link to the PDF file and will open it automatically in a new tab to keep the web app fast and easy to use.
I created HSCPastPapers.com to provide a better experience for students when accessing HSC past papers. While the web app has been somewhat neutered as a result of this change, I believe it still improves the experience of browsing for HSC past papers, especially with its keyboard-navigable interface. As such, I will keep this web app available indefinitely.