Policy of secrecy leaves authors with ‘no inkling’ works are being set for NSW’s year 12 exams

Delia Falconer and Nikki Gemmell latest writers to find out their works were selected for the HSC - after the exams

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When roughly 60,000 year 12 students sit down to do their final English exam in New South Wales each year, they have no idea what texts they'll be asked to analyse.

Likewise, the authors of those texts are neither asked nor warned by the NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) - an increasingly controversial policy as students sometimes take to social media to vent their post-exam frustration directly at them.

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