Lucy Carroll

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Emily Kowal |Lucy Carroll

By Emily Kowal and Lucy Carroll May 7, 2025 — 7.30pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Frustrated parents are weighing up whether their children should resit the high-stakes selective schools test after chaotic crowds and technical glitches led to a breakdown in testing at three major centres last week. Tensions are high inside tutor Tim Ricketts’ selective school coaching classes.

1 week ago | watoday.com.au | Emily Kowal |Lucy Carroll

“I feel the only fair thing to do is for everyone to resit the tests. “The issue that is going to come up is when someone [who did the test later] gets an offer and the kid who did the test earlier misses out.”An exam invigilator from the Canterbury site, who spoke anonymously to speak freely about the test last Friday, said parents had begun arriving at 7am for the opportunity class exam. “There was no security on the grounds.

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Lucy Carroll

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. One of the state’s private school sectors is urging the government to radically reform its HSC awards system, saying students are being nudged towards easier subjects in an attempt to score more top bands.

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Lucy Carroll

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Two of Sydney’s most prestigious private schools will phase out co-education in their junior campuses, bucking the trend of independent schools shifting to having girls and boys taught together. Eastern suburbs school Kincoppal-Rose Bay, which is co-ed in primary and a single-sex girls’ school from year 7, told parents last week it will stop accepting boys in its junior school.

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Lucy Carroll

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Thousands of students who sat the selective schools test on Friday will be given a second chance to sit the exam after mega-testing centres erupted into chaos and riot police were called in to manage crowds.