Year 12 students in New South Wales (NSW) will spend their last weeks of high school at home due to harsh lockdown restrictions, with those in Greater Sydney enduring eight weeks and counting, of stay-at-home orders. The NSW Department of Education announced on Aug. 27 that HSC exams scheduled to begin on Oct. 12 would be pushed back to November. Two friends and co-captains of their school in Sydney, Erika Yu and Stephanie Nwosu, have just finished sitting their HSC trial exams that were held online. Yu and Nwosu told The Epoch Times on Aug. 29 that home learning has added more stress on top of an already overwhelming period of time. They both missed being surrounded by their friends and were extremely disappointed that their opportunity to carry out tasks as school captains had been cut short. “I have definitely missed school. I miss the interactions with other students …