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Brisbane State High School, Wednesday, July 9, 2025 - Picture: Richard Walker

‘Extremely traumatic’ exam bungle laid bare as 140 students dudded

Education Minister John-Paul Langbroek has promised to get to the bottom of how the disaster occurred.

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - OCTOBER 29, 2025: Kayden Brown, 18, is a student at Brisbane State High School where he sat his Ancient History exam today. Picture: Tertius Pickard

‘Big blow’: Future in ruins for human face of year 12 exam bungle

A Brisbane student fears his dreams of a medical career could be shattered after learning the wrong ancient history topic for an entire year.

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Stars of year 12 provide advice

We aced year 12 in 2024 – here are our tips to smash your exams

These three students excelled with stellar ATARs in the class of 2024. Here’s their advice for other teens on how to approach year 12 exams.

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Shailja Prasad and her daughter, Jiya Lyer at Mount Carmel College. Pictured on 8th October 2025. Picture: Ben Clark

Don’t panic about exam anxiety – it can actually boost your brain

Teenage brains are physically rewired by the stress of year 12 exams – but a leading neuroscientist says these simple techniques can help students perform at their best.

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DAILY TELEGRAPH - 7/10/25 Heidi Bromley is completing her HSC over two years, as a special school for kids with behavioural problems called Naremburn in the north shore. Picture: Sam Ruttyn

Expelled and angry – then maths prodigy Heidi achieved something remarkable

Heidi Bromley didn’t go to school for eight months after she was expelled from an elite girls’ college. How she turned her life around is an incredible and inspiring story.

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A young woman screaming uncontrollably while isolated on a black background

It’s just a ‘quick menty B’: How exam freakouts can actually help

If your senior school or uni student child tells you how a ‘rant buddy’ helped them overcome a ‘quick menty B’, it’s not as bad (or as baffling) as it might sound.

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Year 12 students (LtoR seated) Ziah Case,17, and Raphe Thomas,17, (LtoR back) Aryan Alavi,17, and Katie Wolfenden,17, with teacher, Kirsty Raymond, a teacher of 20-years, sharing why exams results don't define us. 26 September 2025. Picture: Dean Martin

Veteran teacher’s message that every year 12 should read

Experienced teacher Kirsty Raymond has an important reality check for year 12s fretting about their future as final exams loom.

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HSC students Eloise Marquard and Aaryn Philips studying at the State Library of NSW ahead of their final exams. We've run five years of exam data through AI to find common themes, questions and traps that could give year 12 students an edge. Picture: Richard Dobson

Ultimate HSC exams guide: What AI says year 12s need to know

Exclusive analysis using AI to study five years of papers reveals the common questions, topics and traps of the most popular HSC exams. Here’s what NSW year 12s need to know.

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Professor Phil Parker graduating from university.

‘Not bad for a boy who didn’t have the marks’: Inspiring prof’s path to success

Professor Phil Parker has come a long way from being an equity entry student to holding a PhD. He has an important message for every student from a disadvantaged background.

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Are trainee teachers smarter than a 9th graders? The LANTITE test shows nearly 12 per cent of aspiring teachers fail the year 9-standard test at the first time of asking.

Trainee teacher test shows record first-time fails – would you pass it?

Aspiring teachers are struggling to show they are as smart as ninth graders, with 3000 failing to pass the benchmark LANTITE test last year. Take the quiz and see if you’d pass.

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Digital downside: Proof that kids learn better from books than screens

Experts are urging schools not to ditch paper, pens and textbooks in the frantic rush towards digital learning – and new research shows exactly why it would be a huge mistake.

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DAILY TELEGRAPH OCTOBER 12, 2022. Cherrybrook Technology High School year 12 students at the end of their English exam on the first day of the HSC for 2022. Picture: Jonathan Ng

HSC students reveal which exams they want to move online

The majority of Year 12 students want to ditch traditional pen and paper exams, new research has revealed, as NSW’s examiners prepare for the HSC’s first ever computer-based coding exams.

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High School students, Generic, Picture: Getty Images

Scathing exam authority report reveals chaos of ‘education state’

Seven chief executives in five years and a ‘culture of fear’ have crippled the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority, a scathing review has found – and meaningful reform is years away.

Girls and boys learn in some segregated classes at Pittwater House.

Co-ed schools that segregate boys and girls – is it the best of both worlds?

Some co-ed schools have a secret weapon pitting them head-to-head with high-performing single-sex schools – they hold segregated classes for girls and boys. But does it work?

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