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zeebobDD

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which year hsc exam do you guys reckon was the hardest? and the easiest:p?
 

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2006 for me was the easiest. Not sure what was the hardest, can't remember lol.
 

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Going back a bit, but 1993 was quite hard. Haven't looked at it recently enough to compare to 2011, but it is probably of similar difficulty, I remember the Coroneos solution to Q8 was badly wrong!
 

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Yeah generally the older ones are usually the hardest. Just looking through a couple of the questions gave me chills.
 

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Hardest would have to be 1916. There were two papers. ;)
 

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2008 was definitely difficult. 2010 was my paper; not the hardest, but up there with regard to the second half of the paper.
 

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I cannot recall exactly, would have to dig up my sisters book somewhere. (It is an ancient book now, all badly typeset etc. If I find time tomorrow I will take a photo of the page...)
 

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hardest I have done was probably in the earlier years. The easiest was 2006-2007 for me.
 

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Hardest would have to be 1916.
It is difficult to make comparisons between the Leaving Certificate and the HSC because the 1957 Wyndham Report and subsequent <a href="http://www.legislation.nsw.gov.au/sessionalview/sessional/act/1961-47.pdf">1961 Education Act</a> added an extra year to high school since 1967. The Leaving Certificate was an exam sat by high school students in their final year at high school from 1916-1966 which would have been an equivalent to our Year 11. There was no Year 12 or Year 12 equivalent before 1967.
 
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I feel as tough 2008 was the easiest,
I haven't really looked at pre 2000
tests much but I have seen the Q8
that carrot was talking about and I'll
agree with him
 

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