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Key Facts: HSC Studies of Religion I Exam

50 marks

Total marks for the HSC Studies of Religion I written examination

NESA - Assessment and Reporting in Studies of Religion I

1h 30m

Working time, plus 5 minutes reading time

NESA - Assessment and Reporting in Studies of Religion I

1 unit

Studies of Religion I is a 1-unit Board Developed Course (SOR II is 2 units)

NESA - Studies of Religion I Stage 6 Syllabus

3 sections

Section I Australia post-1945; Sections II–III Depth Studies on different traditions

NESA - Assessment and Reporting in Studies of Religion I

$1,443 AUD

2026 NESA HSC fee for full-fee paying overseas student candidates

NESA overseas students fee schedule 2026

HSC Studies of Religion I is NESA’s 1-unit Year 12 religion course. The external exam is 50 marks in 1 hour 30 minutes (+ 5 minutes reading): Section I Australia post-1945 (15 marks), Section II depth-study short answers (15 marks), and Section III a depth-study extended response on a different tradition (20 marks). There is no fixed pass mark—results use performance bands. Our 100 questions are a free English-language MCQ study adaptation covering Nature of Religion and Beliefs, Australia post-1945, and generalisable depth-study concepts.

Sample HSC Studies of Religion I Practice Questions

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1In the Studies of Religion syllabus sense, religion is best understood as a distinctive response to:
A.The human search for meaning in life
B.Government taxation schedules only
C.Sports league rankings
D.Fashion industry cycles
Explanation: The Preliminary Nature of Religion and Beliefs focus treats religion and belief systems as distinctive responses to the human search for meaning.
2A transcendent worldview primarily locates the divine or ultimate reality:
A.Only inside laboratory equipment
B.Beyond and independent of the material world
C.Exclusively in stock-market prices
D.Nowhere at all in human experience
Explanation: Transcendence emphasises that the sacred or ultimate exists beyond ordinary material existence while still relating to human meaning.
3An immanent worldview emphasises that the sacred or ultimate is primarily:
A.Absent from nature and community
B.Identical to a single political manifesto
C.Present within the world, nature, or lived experience
D.Limited to satellite imagery
Explanation: Immanence stresses encounter with the sacred within the world, nature, community, or inner life.
4Australian Aboriginal spiritualities treat the Dreaming most accurately as:
A.A colonial census category invented in 1901
B.A synonym for a Christian Sunday service
C.A temporary tourist performance only
D.A complex of ancestral narratives, law, and ongoing relationship with Country
Explanation: The Dreaming refers to ancestral creative events, law, identity, and continuing connection to land, people, and ceremony.
5In Aboriginal spiritualities, kinship systems primarily organise:
A.Relationships, responsibilities, and identity among people and Country
B.Stock-exchange membership only
C.Foreign passport stamp collections
D.Olympic medal tallies
Explanation: Kinship structures relationships, obligations, identity, and connections to people and Country within Aboriginal belief systems.
6Which feature is commonly identified as a characteristic of religion in Stage 6 Studies of Religion?
A.A requirement that every adherent invent a new alphabet
B.A set of beliefs about ultimate reality or the sacred
C.Mandatory ownership of a sports franchise
D.A ban on all storytelling
Explanation: Beliefs about the sacred, ultimate reality, or meaning are a core characteristic of religion as studied in the syllabus.
7Ritual in a religious tradition is best described as:
A.Random everyday shopping habits only
B.A purely medical blood test
C.Structured symbolic actions that express belief and belonging
D.A computer password reset
Explanation: Rituals are patterned symbolic practices through which adherents express belief, identity, and relationship with the sacred or community.
8Ethical teachings within a religious tradition typically aim to guide adherents on:
A.How to ignore all community relationships
B.How to abolish language itself
C.How to eliminate all festivals
D.How to live rightly in light of beliefs and sacred texts
Explanation: Core ethics connect beliefs and sacred texts to decisions about right living for adherents.
9In Studies of Religion, referring to a 'supernatural' dimension of religion most often points to:
A.Beliefs about realities or powers beyond ordinary empirical explanation
B.Only the brand name of a soft drink
C.A type of road-traffic fine
D.A sports referee code
Explanation: The supernatural dimension concerns realities, beings, or powers understood as beyond ordinary empirical explanation within religious worldviews.
10Connection to Country in Aboriginal spiritualities is best understood as:
A.A temporary rental contract with a travel agency
B.An ongoing spiritual, social, and ethical relationship with land and place
C.A one-day museum ticket
D.A ban on all ceremony
Explanation: Country denotes living relationships of identity, law, responsibility, and spirituality with land and place, not a tourist product.

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