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Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nation the HC. Wow, tell me your

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Speaker 1: memories of yours.

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Speaker 2: You know, I remember, I remember there was an award.

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Speaker 1: I remember there was a lectern.

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Speaker 2: There was one of those hats with a flat hat.

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Speaker 3: And then you woke up. It was like, and that's

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Speaker 3: fair enough. In your day, not everyone did the HSC.

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Speaker 3: These days, I think the majority of students stayed a

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Speaker 3: year twelve. That's everybody.

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Speaker 2: Unemployment rate down because everyone's still in school.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, HC. It's a terrifying time.

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Speaker 3: I take some small amount of pleasure every year, knowing

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Speaker 3: it's not me.

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Speaker 1: And I did mine a number of years ago.

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Speaker 2: Got four hundred and ninety six out of five hundred.

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Speaker 2: That was back in the day, So you and some

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Speaker 2: Indian microsurgeon shared the same amount.

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Speaker 3: My microsurgery isn't up to scratch these days. I do

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Speaker 3: have to say, look, I don't think i've got that

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Speaker 3: high school.

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Speaker 1: You did, did I?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember talking to your mum about it years ago.

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Speaker 1: I remember she is Amanda, she used to do.

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Speaker 3: So what's happened to her? She's working with that bogan. No, No,

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Speaker 3: you're just talking to you.

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Speaker 2: Andrew Ditton was all.

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Speaker 3: Right, So today is business studies. We've had English, we've

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Speaker 3: had History, we've had maths, all the big ones, but

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Speaker 3: it still goes on and on. Apparently biology was yesterday.

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Speaker 3: And there's some interesting controversy here. Someone who's looked at

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Speaker 3: all the old exam papers because they often you think

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Speaker 3: I'll get an idea of how other questions have been asked,

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Speaker 3: and he found a cut and paste. Really a West

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Speaker 3: Australian HSC used exactly that question in twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 3: So note to future selves, have exquisite the other things.

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Speaker 3: And someone here said, that's outrageous.

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Speaker 1: There. This should be our original.

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Speaker 3: The stakes are very high for us, and surely it

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Speaker 3: should have still applied for.

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Speaker 1: The examiners as well. Be original.

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Speaker 3: But what's the big controversy is In year twelve, students

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Speaker 3: in eight Queensland high schools, including one of Brisbane's most

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Speaker 3: prestigious schools, found.

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Speaker 1: Out two days before their.

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Speaker 3: Ancient History exam, that they've been taught the wrong subject

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Speaker 3: diarrhea anyone. So they were supposed to learn about Julius Caesar.

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Speaker 3: Instead they were taught about Augustus Caesar. The error was

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Speaker 3: identified by teachers two days before. Imagine that in the

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Speaker 3: stuff from going are we doing blah blah blah and yah,

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Speaker 3: no we're not, they are.

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Speaker 1: What do we tell them? Do we just get on

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Speaker 1: a plane and go and live in a ditch in Peru?

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Speaker 2: I want to by the men because I didn't do

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Speaker 2: any study so two days before I come yet whatever, Well, this.

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Speaker 3: Is the thing they've been given. You can lodge an

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Speaker 3: illness and misadventure application to say no, to say.

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Speaker 1: That was my school career.

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Speaker 3: He's majored in illness and misadventure and this is pretty much.

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Speaker 3: They should not be disadvantaged for this. This is bad

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Speaker 3: the school and.

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Speaker 1: This is great.

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Speaker 3: Arranged cram sessions for students and shared an electronic resource

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Speaker 3: pack to help them prepare for in two days two

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Speaker 3: years of work forget that. But you've got two days

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Speaker 3: to cram and we'll tell them you weren't feeling well

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Speaker 3: as well. The stress of that is if this isn't

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Speaker 3: hard enough. But as you say, Brendan, I did the HC.

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Speaker 1: You didn't. And quite seriously, we're both here enjoying the

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Speaker 1: same job. It really doesn't matter that much in the

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Speaker 1: long haul of your life. It really doesn't matter.

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Speaker 2: The payscale differs a little.

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Speaker 1: Bit, but well a little bit lot whatever.

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Speaker 2: I like the fact that you make a bit more

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Speaker 2: money than me because I'm you know, I like to

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Speaker 2: see the ladies make the more money, make the more money.

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Speaker 1: Like to see that. But I feel for everyone who's

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Speaker 1: doing HC.

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Speaker 3: Doesn't matter how many people tell you, it doesn't matter

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Speaker 3: when you're in the drop zone of doing it.

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Speaker 1: It's tough. What you do in life echoes in eternity

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Speaker 1: or not, as the case may be. So good luck,