{"id":231842,"date":"2025-10-22T06:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T06:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/231842\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T06:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T06:56:08","slug":"are-you-smarter-than-a-12th-grader-relive-hsc-anxiety-with-a-quiz-based-on-this-years-maths-exam-australian-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/231842\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you smarter than a 12th grader? Relive HSC anxiety with a quiz based on this year\u2019s maths exam | Australian education"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some HSC students were reduced to tears while sitting this year\u2019s mathematics exams.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomeone I know is literally crying because it was too hard,\u201d a student wrote on a Facebook forum about the Standard 2 paper. \u201cReal sista, real,\u201d came a reply.<\/p>\n

Around 60,000 students \u2013 or seven in 10 \u2013 sat exams across Mathematics Standard 1 and 2, Advanced and Extension 2 in New South Wales<\/a> on Wednesday morning. Mathematics Extension 1 students have to wait another week to sit their exam.<\/p>\n

On social media, the papers were described as \u201cbrutal\u201d, \u201cstupid\u201d, \u201cso hard\u201d and \u201cabsolute horror\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cStandard 2 was worse than 2020,\u201d one student wrote on TikTok to hundreds of likes.<\/p>\n

A question about a person owning a large quantity of sheep on the exam drew particular ire, with another student questioning: \u201cWhy did bro have 12,600 sheep in the first place?\u201d followed by crying emojis.<\/p>\n

\u201cTH[E] [Q]UESTION ABOUT SHEEPS BRO,\u201d came a reply. \u201cI SAT THERE TRYING TO UNDERSTAND.\u201d<\/p>\n

For many of us, high school exam anxiety only resurfaces in an unpleasant dream or the occasional flashback. But we are offering readers the chance to relive their youth with a sample of questions pulled from this year\u2019s Standard papers 1 and 2.<\/p>\n

In order to make it accessible online, we can\u2019t provide the most difficult questions \u2013 only the multiple choice options. Rest assured, though, participants are still allowed to use a calculator, which were approved by the NSW Education Standards Authority for all exams. Just don\u2019t plug the quiz into ChatGPT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some HSC students were reduced to tears while sitting this year\u2019s mathematics exams. \u201cSomeone I know is literally…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-231842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}