DUBBO students have pitted themselves against an exam they deemed tough but with few surprises in its questions about algebra, geometry, calculus and more.
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The Higher School Certificate (HSC) candidates had three hours to display their knowledge of mathematics yesterday.
At St John's College students emerged from the exam to be greeted by teachers who had guided them through their senior years of study.
Edwina Keen and Georgina Riley were both relieved at what they found in the exam, for a course known to previous generations of students as "2 unit maths".
"It was better than I expected, it was a bit hard, but I suppose all exams are," 17-year-old Edwina said.
Sab Fardell said the general consensus was it was pretty good up until the final two questions, when it got "a bit rough".
Harrison Barnes, 18, has not been deterred from planning a career related to the mathematics field.
"I am thinking of doing engineering, civil engineering or mechanical engineering," he said.
"Go to uni and do that and hopefully come back and work here."
The exam was the third this week for 18-year-old Georgina who paid tribute to her teachers.
"All the teachers work really hard and want us to succeed and I think that helps us a lot," she said.
Dubbo College Senior Campus maths teacher Jayne Ainsworth was relieved to see this year's exam.
"It was really very fair and much better than the 2013 paper, which was heavily criticised for its level of difficulty," she said.
"This year we have seen a return to the style of paper of previous years and if students knew their work they would have been in a position to perform well.
"The paper covered all topics in the curriculum and like many earlier papers it ended with a couple of more tricky questions - but nothing that wasn't achievable."
