Year 12 students from Bega High School walked out of their HSC exam for English on Thursday glad the first one was down, ready for the next.
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“I feel it was a bit of a milestone and now it’s started I feel it’s going to go faster,” Romilly Eggins said after she left the exam hall.
Her friend and classmate Liam Jolley said the four weeks between the end of school and the start of exams stretched on for a long time.
“I stuck to a six hour schedule [for study], the same as school to keep some sort of normality. But it was just a matter of memorising,” he said.
All up Romilly has eight exams, and she thought there must be a better way to assess students.
“I think it’s a very narrow way of testing people’s knowledge, and the way it’s presented as a big 50 per cent deal causes unnecessary stress,” she said.
Another student, Riley Murdoch, agreed.
“I think there can be less stressful ways of assessing,” she said.