It is prominent among students for its Student Assessment Modeller that calculates approximate Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (formerly Universities Admission Index) or Equivalent National Tertiary Entrance Rank results, and for hosting study notes for the New South Wales Higher School Certificate courses.
[citation needed] Bored of Studies has become an increasingly popular site for HSC students, with a membership of over 400 000 and more than 15 million monthly hits.
[7] In 2005, a student's attempt to gain access to his raw HSC examination under freedom of information laws drew controversy when the request was refused by the government.
This followed the previous successful attempt by James King, one of the administrators on the Bored of Studies website, to obtain his raw marks.
From 2012,[9] Bored of Studies began creating exam papers as its own version of the trial HSC to be taken by members currently in their final year of school on specified dates and venues.