The HSC commences across NSW

Students across NSW have begun sitting their HSC exams. A record breaking 75,000 teens completed the compulsory English paper.

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00:00Sitting Year 12 exams is a big achievement for anyone but even more so for Nathan Barbera who

00:09underwent a heart transplant less than a year ago. I'm very happy to be doing my HSC and to

00:15be completing all my exams to the best of my ability. He's among thousands of students who

00:19sat their first HSC exams this morning and nerves were running high. Do a prayer before I do my

00:27exam and I calm myself down because I do get really nervous and really overwhelmed by exams.

00:33There'll be written exams for 123 subjects in all. They've been working towards this now for a long

00:40time and culminating today which was great to see them so happy about how they went.

00:44More than 400,000 exam papers will be completed over the next three weeks. Marking them will take

00:52even longer giving students the anxious wait until they receive their results in mid-December.

00:59I feel quite good actually because it's a really good feeling that you're just able to knock one

01:03out of the way and now only a few more to go now. After 13 years of schooling just putting pen to

01:11paper is enough reason to celebrate.