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Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nation. It's not as we tell people

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Speaker 1: and kids, hey, it's only an exam. It doesn't matter.

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Speaker 1: And you know that as you get older. But you

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Speaker 1: can't take the stress away from kids who are going

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Speaker 1: through the HSC. It starts today and I feel for

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Speaker 1: you all, and I feel for your for your families.

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Speaker 1: It's such a big deal. I still remember walking across

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Speaker 1: the oval towards the school on the day of my HSC,

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Speaker 1: the first day of the HC. It was such a

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Speaker 1: it had loomed so large in my life that I

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Speaker 1: still feel that when I read about the HSC star

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Speaker 1: you did very, very well. You got four hundred and

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Speaker 1: ninety six out of five hundred. Every year you bump

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Speaker 1: it up, and I appreciate it. It's four ninety six,

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Speaker 1: wasn't it. I don't know you and that microsurgeon and

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Speaker 1: look where's he now? Is stitching some kid's hand back

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Speaker 1: on and look at me doing poo jokes and look

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Speaker 1: at you, And I remember my HSC. You didn't do one.

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Speaker 1: And that's okay too. But today, no matter how many

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Speaker 1: adults say to you, don't worry. You know. I know

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Speaker 1: you're going to and it's tough what have you got

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Speaker 1: any chips? No, there aren't any. Just get through it

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Speaker 1: because there is life on the other side, good, bad

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Speaker 1: and ugly. No matter what happens, it's going to be stressful.

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Speaker 1: Try and take care of yourself, look after your mental health.

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Speaker 1: It's actually going to be okay. I see a whole

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Speaker 1: lot of kids apparently being offered. But there's like you know,

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Speaker 1: backyard job people trying to buy them riddling for kids

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Speaker 1: to get through the HSC two dollars appeal, you want

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Speaker 1: to get some rittlin. These psychostimulants that there, they say

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Speaker 1: that that they've been flooded with offers to buy rittl

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Speaker 1: and help them cram for the HSC. What would have

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Speaker 1: had actually do? It helps you focus? Yeah, it helps

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Speaker 1: you focus and stay awake, I guess, But I guess

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Speaker 1: it's more for focusing. What I find really hard for everyone.

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Speaker 1: It's the English paper at number one today, amongst other things,

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Speaker 1: is you have to do it all by hand. So

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Speaker 1: these are these students who that by now, all these

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Speaker 1: students their whole lives, there's particularly their high school lives.

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Speaker 1: Assignments are handed in via computer. You do all your

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Speaker 1: English homework. Everything pretty much except for maths. I'm imagining

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Speaker 1: is handed in on computer, and suddenly you go for

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Speaker 1: the biggest exam of your life and it's handwritten. I

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Speaker 1: remember the kids being instructed to squeeze those rubber balls

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Speaker 1: to strengthen their wrisk because you also have to practice

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Speaker 1: your handwriting. Three hours of handwriting would hurt any of

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Speaker 1: us these days. And excuse me, imagine trying to market Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so hard. But there's talking about maybe in a few

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Speaker 1: years down the track, introducing computers. Ah, computers as a course. Well,

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Speaker 1: that's the thing. When I look at my youngest son,

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Speaker 1: he writes like a serial killer. He gets a pen

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Speaker 1: in his hand. It's like the engraves it on the thing.

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Speaker 1: You're right, you're dying here, dying here, not as the cause.

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Speaker 1: You have to do the HC on the computer. Man,

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Speaker 1: it gets very emotional because she got four hundred and

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Speaker 1: ninety six and I didn't. Got something in my throat.

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Speaker 1: I'm okay, don't worry about me. Kids, go on without me.

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Speaker 1: You're going to be okay. I'm going to chew on

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Speaker 1: a rub a ball to see if it helps my throat. Okay,

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Speaker 1: Like I did on the weekend of that club. I'm

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Speaker 1: back now, excuse you've come back. Say good luck everybody,

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Speaker 1: and in the future we'll look back on how weird

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Speaker 1: it was we made them do these exams. Although I

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Speaker 1: remembers you choking, don't choke today kids like Amanda today.

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Speaker 1: Good luck everyone,