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 ...

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 ...

And one in particular has become the subject of intense backlash – and memes – after countless students struggled to answer it at all. The issue arose after the syllabus was tweaked by the NSW ...

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 ...

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, ...