More than 75,000 students are currently sitting their NSW HSC exams, but just 3,300 of them sat the three-hour maths extension 2 paper. And looking at this year's notorious final page question, with ...

Year 12 maths students have scratched their heads through a series of HSC exam papers so tricky that one question alone took Australia’s most famous maths teacher three attempts to solve. The 2024 ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from School Life. Followed categories will be added to My News. Almost 3500 Year 12 pupils were challenged with one of the “toughest” problems to ever feature on the ...

Students collectively raged on social media following the tricky test, with many bonding over the shared sense they didn’t perform as well as they had hoped. A question received particularly poorly by ...

An extra booklet for Standard maths students at the beginning of the exam befuddled some students while a bizarre extended question about crickets chirping left them utterly confused. This year’s ...

Hysterical maths students have taken their HSC woes to TikTok after exam papers that left them feeling “so cooked”, and even some of the state’s best maths teachers reckon they were a tough ask. Year ...

1. Make a list of the types of mistakes you typically make. This isn’t to specific questions, but patterns of mistakes. Try ‘codifying’ your errors in a way that makes it impossible to make them again ...

With their study interrupted by almost two years of a global pandemic, those facing the NSW HSC maths exam on Monday could have been forgiven for hoping for something a bit more straightforward. At ...