Topics, worked examples and key terms carry across offerings. Assessment weights and dates change between offerings, so confirm yours on the LMS. Last updated 5 September 2026.
Grouped by discipline. These are AskSia topic categories, not University of Sydney faculties or departments.
BUSS1040Economics for Business Decision Making
ECMT1010Introduction to Economic Statistics
ECON1001Introductory Microeconomics
ECON1002Introductory Macroeconomics
ECON1003Quantitative Methods in Economics
ECON5001Microeconomic Theory
ECON5002Macroeconomic Theory
ECON5005Quantitative Tools for Economics
ECON6002Macroeconomic Analysis
ECON6023International Trade
ECOP6101Political Economy: A Primer
ECOS2001Intermediate Microeconomics
BUSS1000Future of Business
BUSS2000Leading and Influencing in Business
BUSS5220Responsible Business Mindset
BUSS5221Creative and Analytic Mindset
IBUS1102Cross-Cultural Management
IBUS5003Global Business
IBUS6002Cross-Cultural Management
IBUS6020Enterprise Management in China
IDEA9106Design Thinking
WORK1004Foundations of ManagementRead from the published assessment table of 121 of the 121 units. 56 of them carry at least one hurdle, marked below.
From the unit of study outline for the offering each guide names at the top of the page, published by the University of Sydney two weeks before teaching starts. Topics and worked examples carry across offerings; weights, due dates and exam formats can change between semesters, so confirm yours in the current outline on Canvas.
A hurdle task is an assessment you must complete to a specified standard to pass the unit, no matter how well you do in your other assessments. The standard is set out in the unit outline and is often lower than a pass mark: some units require 30% or 40% on the final exam. Each guide names the hurdle components for the offering it was built from, but confirm the standard in your own unit outline.
STUVAC is the study vacation week after the last teaching week, and end of semester exams usually run straight after it in Weeks 15 and 16. In semester tests, quizzes and take home exams are set by the unit coordinator during teaching weeks. Each guide that covers a final exam says which components fall in the formal exam period.
Your Weighted Average Mark averages your unit marks weighted by each unit's credit point value, and in some cases by its level of study. Failed attempts count, and you include both the failed mark and the mark when you retake the unit. A High Distinction is 85 to 100 in a unit, so the guides order revision by the components that carry the most marks.
No. AskSia is not affiliated with the University of Sydney. Each guide is written independently by AskSia from the unit's published materials, and every assessment figure names the offering it came from so you can check it against the unit outline.
Where a University of Sydney unit releases past or sample exam papers, it does so through Canvas and the unit outline, and the unit coordinator decides what is released. AskSia guides do not host exam papers. What they give you instead is the exam format from the unit outline, broken down by question type, next to the assessment table it belongs to, plus a worked example marked step by step.
