“The link is patched now,” he said. “But I hope those are my marks.”
It is the second consecutive year HSC results have accidentally been released early,after the 2021results were mistakenly published online in January two days before they were due to be formally released.
Those results were also pulled from the website within a manner of hours.
Merewether’s Lucy Redpath said she was also “pretty happy” with her results. The selective school Year 12 student learnt about the leak in a text from a friend on Saturday morning.
“It was pretty overwhelming,was not prepared for it on a Saturday morning,” she said,adding that “most of her friends” accessed the results using the link.
“I did an accelerated subject last year and I found out the same way. Can’t believe it happened twice.”
In Ingleburn,Saqib Rashid saw the link on his year group’s Discord server,after waking up early to pray. He accessed his results around 6am.
Five of his friends also used the link to access their results. He was not thrilled with his marks,but said his friends who did not manage to see their results before NESA shut the link down were more concerned.
“They’re much more nervous than they probably would have otherwise been,” he said.
Education Minister Sarah Mitchell said she was informed by NESA of “an IT issue which allowed a small number of students to have an early look at their HSC results” on Saturday morning.
“I’m very disappointed this has happened and have asked NESA for an explanation as to how this occurred. They have assured me that the error has been fixed and everything is on track for HSC results to be released on Thursday,” she said,apologising on behalf of NESA for the “confusion and stress this has created for students”.
Labor education spokesperson Prue Car said the leak of results for a second year in a row indicated “the Perrottet government has dropped the ball on what should be a well established process”.
“This bungle has just added unnecessary stress on students,many of whom have no certainty if they were shown their final results or not,” she said,calling for students to be able to “see their results equally”.
Mitchell criticised Car for her comments.
“It is incredibly disappointing that NSW Labor,with no understanding of the issue,chose to add to student stress and confusion. This shows weak leadership from[Labor leader] Chris Minns and a lack of empathy for HSC students,” Mitchell said.
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