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Why school exams matter

13 November 2019

4:02 PM

13 November 2019

4:02 PM

Undoubtedly, the Higher School Certificate is hard. But final exams are not intended to be easy — to be some sort of rubber stamp for having sat in a classroom. They are intended to assess how much you have learned.

HSC exams finished on Monday for Year 12 students in New South Wales on Monday and, presumably, so has the ‘student stress’ we hear so much about at this time of the year all around Australia.

Yes, exams are stressful.

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