Yep.
They have 12 months to set up exams and yet still stuff it up.
The Australian education system mantra.
"Keep em stupid tech them dum"
The stupidity of teachers and the educaytion department knows no bounds.
These kids futures are on the line, but the LAZY no hoper teachers didnt even check the papers before the exams.
Teaching, the lazy profession
The profession requiring the lowest entry requirement
The profession that is destroying Australia.
Quote: Exam doesn’t add up for maths students
CHRISTOPHER HARRIS
HSC students were blindsided and left “very upset” after they faced numerous unintended hurdles in their examination papers on Monday.
An extra booklet for Standard Maths students given out at the beginning of the exam befuddled some examinees, and a bizarre extended question about crickets chirping left them utterly confused.
This year’s mathematics exam was a radical departure from previous years following a syllabus shake-up and changes that meant there would be questions common to both the Standard Maths and Advanced Maths courses.
Normally the two courses have entirely different content, but this year in a bid to make the two subjects comparable in terms of final marks, students were tested on common content across both syllabuses.
Mathematical Association of NSW president Karen McDaid said according to feedback from teachers, students found the last question in the standard paper about crickets agonising.
That question asked students to “Calculate the number of chirps expected in a 15-second interval when the temperature is 19° Celsius’’.
Ms McDaid also said that an extra Standard Maths booklet provided to students was not expected.
“Concerns raised about the two booklets from the extended response, some teachers said that the second booklet threw the students as they were not expecting two booklets,” she said.
“This was not part of the instructions for what students should expect in the exam.’’