Tarunesh Srikrishna, a graduate of the 2023 HSC, developed a curious habit when he was studying for his year 12 biology exam.

“During the HSC, one of my hobbies was to look at other states’ papers,” he said.

So when a friend forwarded the university student last Friday’s exam and he scanned the questions, it was not surprising that the exam looked familiar. He had seen essentially the same questions before.

There was the one about the fruit fly, the one about animals and air temperature, and the one about stopping the spread of Varroa mite among the bee population.

“I was like ‘Wait, where have I seen that before?’” Srikrishna said, and the answer was in the Western Australian Certificate of Education’s biology exams, 2019 to 2023.

A spokeswoman for the NSW Education Standards Authori

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