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Higher School Certificate results
The NSW Board of Studies will release HSC results in mid-December via the HSC Telephone Results Service and the NSW Board of Studies 
web site. Students will receive written advice a few days later.
The University Admissions Centre will release the University Admissions Index (UAI) to NSW HSC students the day after the HSC results have been released.
Your UAI will be available by visiting the UAC web site
To check your UAI you'll need your Student Number or UAC application number and UAC PIN.
University offers
The offers are released in four rounds:
- Early round offers: mid-December; Preliminary round offers: first week of January; Main round offers: mid-January;
- Final round offers: first week of February.
Check the University Admissions Centre for the actual dates.
Changing university preferences
Students often change their minds about their preferences, either before or after receiving their results. When making changes, students should research the new course as thoroughly as they researched their original set of preferences.
The UAI entry for a particular course is determined by the demand for and supply of course places, i.e. the number of students wanting to do the course in light of the number of places available.
The UAI should not be used as a measure of the difficulty of a course nor as a measure of the quality and content of one course against another.
Students should have considered their interests, abilities and career aspirations and researched their course preferences carefully prior to the end of Year 12. They should not make an impulse decision and change to a course of which they have little knowledge, just because they received a higher UAI than expected. Please think carefully before suggesting your child may be “wasting” his or her UAI on a lower entry course.
Closing dates for change of preferences
Students are able to submit changes to the University Admissions Centre for the main round. Check the UAC site for the relevant dates.
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