Yeh that circle geometry question was killer. If you read the markers comments, only one person in the state got full marks for all of the parts involved in the question. However I felt that question 8 was relatively easier compared to other years.
Yeah q8 was pretty easy tbh, especially the circ motion part. The only really tricky question in that paper was circle geo, and even that wasn't awful, compared to something like the last question in 1989 or even 1998. But part iii of the circle part is a huge trap. Like I just assumed it involved letting T be on VU and showing the result was true, but according to markers comments you had to work backwards from the result to show that T lies on VU, or you got 0 marks out of 2. Really hope I don't misinterpret anything like that in the hsc lol.