Hi Wentyl, welcome to another jam-packed education and parenting newsletter!

This week we’re looking ahead to the dreaded exam period, kicking off a series of pieces helping students and parents stay sane during this very stressful time. 

If you’ve got a person in your household who’s going through year 12 exams, you’ll appreciate our commonsense guide on how to support your kids. Here’s a tip: it’s all about encouragement, not pressure.

And if that fails and they're freaking out, get them to read this piece from a teacher reminding them that their ATAR doesn’t need to dictate their future. 

As part of this ongoing exam support package, we’ve applied AI to the most popular subjects, showing what topics, prompts and questions are likely to come up based on deep analysis of the past five years of exams. This week we've focused on HSC exams in New South Wales, but coming up are analyses of VCE, SACE and QCE exams across the other states. It's not exactly a cheat sheet, but it might give your year 12 a crucial edge.

HSC students Eloise Marquard and Aaryn Philips studying at the State Library of NSW ahead of their final exams. We've run five years of exam data through AI to find common themes, questions and traps. Picture: Richard Dobson | FULL STORY

We’ve also had our eye on higher education this week, revealing which Aussie unis have shot up the prestigious Times Higher Education World University Rankings – and which have not. 

We also detail exactly how much uni students will save from the HECS repayment cuts and look at what happened when a university used AI to accuse students of using AI to cheat. (Hint: it didn’t go well ... who could have foreseen that?