Each year, the toughest HSC maths exam ends in a question notorious for its sheer difficulty, often stumping even the state’s best students. The blistering heat on Wednesday afternoon was no deterrent ...

Despite being worth just one mark each, the 20 multiple choice questions comprising the first of three sections in the exam were almost universally denounced as the most unexpectedly challenging ...

There was a collective sigh of relief across the state on Friday as more than 20,000 students emerged from what many have dubbed “NESA’s apology” for its controversial maths exams. The 2025 HSC ...

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 ...

Renowned for setting final questions so difficult even top mathematicians have to pause for thought, this year the script has flipped on the HSC’s most challenging exam. While peers in the standard ...

While peers in the standard and advanced maths courses were left “in tears” by their own maths papers, Cherrybrook Technology High School Extension 2 students Aditya Patel, 17, and Xinda Zhar, 18, ...