HSC: NSW government institutes compulsory literacy and numeracy test for all students

By Eryk Bagshaw
Updated August 15 2016 - 6:15am, first published July 19 2016 - 8:36pm
NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli with students Tanvi Kher and Nilakshi Perera at Cherrybrook Technology High School.   Photo: Edwina Pickles
NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli with students Tanvi Kher and Nilakshi Perera at Cherrybrook Technology High School. Photo: Edwina Pickles
"I would have worked harder": Year 12 student Jack Fu. Photo: Supplied
"I would have worked harder": Year 12 student Jack Fu. Photo: Supplied

The HSC will undergo its biggest overhaul in a generation after NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli announced a mandatory literacy and numeracy test, a crackdown on cheats and syllabus changes that will see new science subjects and maths marks being awarded for their level of difficulty.

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