About Curtin Honestly

Curtin Honestly collects honest student reviews of Curtin University units, so the next student choosing a unit knows what taking it is actually like.

Why it exists

Curtin's official handbook tells you what a unit covers: its syllabus, its credit points, its prerequisites. It does not tell you how heavy the workload really is, how the unit is assessed in practice, or whether the students who took it would take it again. Most people choose units on a friend's recommendation, or blind.

This site is the missing half of that decision. Every rating here comes from a student who took the unit and wrote about it.

Who runs it

Curtin Honestly is built and run by Devon Clark, a Curtin student, independently. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by Curtin University, and the University has no involvement in what appears here. It carries no advertising, and no review is ever reordered or removed in exchange for payment. Individual reviews are not sold. The aggregate statistics built from them, unit ratings and averages, may be licensed to third parties, which the terms set out.

The code behind the site is public, at github.com/devon-clarkk/CurtinHonestly. You are welcome to read how ratings are calculated and how reviews are stored, rather than taking the description above on trust. It is published for inspection rather than reuse, so it carries no open source licence.

Questions, corrections, and complaints go to contact@curtinhonestly.com, or see the contact page.

What "Verified Curtin Student" means

To post, you confirm an @student.curtin.edu.au email address. Reviews from a confirmed address are labelled Verified Curtin Student.

That label means one specific thing, and it is worth being precise about what it does not mean. It confirms the reviewer is a Curtin student. It does not confirm that they took the particular unit they are reviewing. Curtin does not share enrolment records with outside platforms, so no independent site can verify that, and any site claiming otherwise is overstating what it knows.

How reviews are moderated

Reviews are not checked before they appear. Every review carries a report control, and reported reviews are read by a moderator. Content is removed, and accounts suspended or closed, where the terms have been breached.

Naming teaching staff is allowed where the comment is about their teaching of the unit and is honest opinion or a statement of fact. Comments about someone's private life, appearance, or protected attributes are not.

How anonymous reviews are

The site never asks for your name and does not store one. Reviews appear without a name or an email address, showing only whether the reviewer is verified.

Reviews stay linked to an account in the database, which is what lets you edit and delete your own reviews, stops one account reviewing a unit twice, and allows abuse to be investigated. Administrators can see which account wrote a review. The privacy policy sets out the detail, including the point that a review's own content can identify you even without a name on it.

Reading the numbers honestly

Each unit shows its rating alongside the number of reviews it is drawn from, because the two mean nothing apart. A unit rated five stars by one student is one student's opinion, not a verdict, and it is shown that way on purpose.

Individual reviews are combined into statistics: unit ratings, average workload and grades, would-take-again percentages, and grade distributions. Those aggregates are published on the site and do not identify the students behind them.

Not the official record

Unit information here comes from students and from Curtin's published unit data, and it may be out of date. Check the official Curtin Handbook before making any enrolment decision.