Among the 20,000 students cramming for the HSC Business Studies exam,17-year-old Henry Lau had his notes out in the Sydney Kings locker room.
The biggest cohort of students in the state’s history,71,619 pupils,can now say goodbye to school textbooks,teachers and HSC exam stress.
Drama students could complete the HSC without external assessment and the music exam time would double under a proposal to overhaul the curriculum.
The business studies exam is second only to the English advanced course and has overtaken biology in terms of popularity. Can you pass our quiz?
HSC advanced maths,physics and chemistry enrolments have fallen,but experts say there are ways to reverse the decline.
A leading lecturer in music education is concerned students are punished for studying certain types of music,but scaling experts say the system is fair.
There’s so much pressure on school finishers to know what they want to do with their lives,but it’s a lifetime process.
A cartoon that was used in trial exams purchased by numerous private schools reappeared in the HSC.
Students sat the gruelling three-hour HSC maths extension 2 paper on Monday,with students quizzed on mechanics and complex numbers.
Question 16 of the HSC mathematics extension 2 is the most difficult of the three-hour exam.
It is the second year in a row that mathematics students have been told to eschew calculations in their exam for some questions and answer in sentences instead.