Some HSC students were reduced to tears while sitting this year’s mathematics exams.

“Someone I know is literally crying because it was too hard,” a student wrote on a Facebook forum about the Standard 2 paper. “Real sista, real,” came a reply.

Around 60,000 students – or seven in 10 – sat exams across Mathematics Standard 1 and 2, Advanced and Extension 2 in New South Wales on Wednesday morning. Mathematics Extension 1 students have to wait another week to sit their exam. Students grumble over essay prompt and how paper was stapled as English exam kicks off HSC Read more

On social media, the papers were described as “brutal”, “stupid”, “so hard” and “absolute horror”.

“Standard 2 was worse than 2020,” one student wrote on TikTok to hundreds of likes.

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