Company: BSTZ
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form Type: N-CSR
Source: 0001193125-25-049659
Chunk: 41

Company: BlackRock Science & Technology Term Trust
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form: N-CSR
Chunk 41
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 Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) on: |                    |                 |                 |                                  |                       |                |              |
| Options written                                          | $—                 | $—              |        $206,038 | $—                               | $—                    | $—             |     $206,038 |

| (a) | Options purchased are included in net realized gain (loss) from investments — 
 unaffiliated.                                                                 |

Average Quarterly Balances of Outstanding Derivative Financial Instruments

| Options:                                    |           |
| Average value of option contracts purchased |     $—(a) |
| Average value of option contracts written   | 3,495,273 |

| (a) | Derivative financial instrument not held at any quarter-end. The risk exposure table serves as an 
 indicator of activity during the period.                                                          |

For more information about the Trust’s investment risks regarding derivative financial instruments, refer to the Notes to Financial Statements. Derivative Financial Instruments — Offsetting as of Period End The Trust’s derivative assets and liabilities (by type) were as follows:

|                                                                                     | Assets | Liabilities |
| Derivative Financial Instruments                                                    |        |             |
| Options                                                                             | $—     |  $1,632,661 |
| Total derivative assets and liabilities in the Statements of Assets and Liabilities | —      |   1,632,661 |
| Derivatives not subject to a Master Netting Agreement or similar agreement (“MNA”)  | —      |  -1,355,804 |
| Total derivative assets and liabilities subject to an MNA                           | $—     |    $276,857 |

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Schedule of Investments (continued) December 31, 2024 BlackRock Energy and Resources Trust (BGR)

The following table presents the Trust’s derivative liabilities by counterparty net of amounts available for offset under an MNA and net of the related collateral pledged by the Trust:

| Counterparty                           | DerivativeLiabilitiesSubject toan MNA byCounterparty | DerivativesAvailablefor Offset(a) | Non-CashCollateralPledged(b) | CashCollateralPledged(b) | Net Amountof DerivativeLiabilities(c) |
| Bank of America N.A.                   |                                              $30,073 | $—                                |                           $— | $—                       |                               $30,073 |
| Goldman Sachs International            |                                               59,015 | —                                 |                      -59,015 | —                        |