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 ...

Students collectively raged on social media following the tricky test, with many bonding over the shared sense they didn’t perform as well as they had hoped. A question received particularly poorly by ...

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 ...