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“I was like ‘Wait, where have I seen that before?’” Srikrishna said, and the answer was in the Western Australian Certificate of Education’s biology exams, 2019 to 2023. A spokeswoman for the NSW Education Standards Authority, which is in charge of setting HSC exams, said similarity to other states’ questions was due to similar syllabuses. “We unequivocally dispute any suggestion that NSW’s Higher School Certificate uses exam questions from other jurisdictions,” she said. However, in this case, specific air temperatures used in a scenario in one question had remained the same, while another data set in the same question had simply been increased by four degrees. Srikrishna said: “There’s no way this is a coincidence. There’s no chance you made that up on your own.” Over the weekend, he contacted the Herald with a summary of the similarities across the two papers.
