Dylan Nguyen’s mates picked the HSC over the IB because it finished earlier. Now Dylan will do his last exams when they are doing their first | JordsBaker
At Dylan Nguyen’s school, students have a choice between the International Baccalaureate and the Higher School Certificate. Some of his mates chose the HSC because the exams finished earlier, so they’d have more time for schoolies.
St Andrews Cathedral School students Gemma Gardiner and Dylan Nguyen did not expect to begin exams before their HSC peersThe IB exams begin on Monday, and Dylan, a student at St Andrew’s Cathedral School, will do his first one - French - on Tuesday. “I finish on November 9 [when the HSC begins], so I’ll be walking out for the last time as they walk out of their first exam,” he said. “That will be a lot of fun.
“We knew the exams would go ahead, we just didn’t know if our students would be able to sit for them,” said Antony Mayrhofer, from IB Schools Australasia. “As soon as we were told that students could return to school from October 25, I thought, ’Great, that means the IB exams can go ahead.” “[Last November and May] they had a combination of schools around the world not being able to do exams and others being able to do exams, they’re well and truly practised now in navigating that space,” said Mr Mayrhofer.