The HSC moments 5 women will never forget.

There's nothing quite like the stress of Year 12 exams. The sleepless nights, the sweaty palms, the feeling like your entire future depended on a single essay question.

With the current cohort of graduates set to receive their results soon, we decided to take a look back at the HSC stories that still haunt people years later.

From running away from an exam to a glandular fever outbreak, five women share their exam experience — and let's just say, the stress was real.

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Final exam flee.

The morning of my last exam, I had planned to catch the early bus to then get the train to get there on time. Just before the bus got there, I realised I had forgotten something at home and had to run back.

I caught the next bus without any issues but had issues with the train as it was delayed. I realised I would be late and started freaking out. I called a friend who contacted the school, and they were going to send a teacher to pick me up at the station.

I arrived about 15 minutes late. I was in such a panic by this time that I completely freaked and couldn't walk in, so I left and didn't take my last exam.

I don't know if it was just finishing Year 12 or it being the last exam or not wanting to walk in and have everyone look at me. I froze and then fled. I didn't tell anyone and I headed to our shop (family business).

By the time I got there, the school had reached out as they had marked me absent, but as a teacher had brought me to school from the station, they knew I had been there and were concerned.

I still worry that this event with me running away changed me and has me avoiding things that I shouldn't or that I wish I were braver to do.

The glandular fever outbreak.

We had a Year 13 common room and no one ever washed any dishes, only rinsing them.

Over 75 per cent of our year level contracted glandular fever in the couple of months before exams. Our teachers all kept saying it was the kissing disease, but we all knew it was because of our rank dishes situation.

We were all sick, tired, and exhausted, trying to study!

We got through it with a sense of humour, chocolate and some kissing because we were being accused of it anyway!

Looking back now, it's hilarious!

My oldest two children are in Year 12 at the same school and the common room is now two classrooms. We had parent-teacher interviews in one of the classrooms a few months ago, and I kept laughing as I was sitting where the kitchen was. I didn't explain it to my son prior, and he thought I was being rude to his teacher.

The Geography teacher's fail.

Our teacher hadn't taught us mapping skills for our Geography exam and only realised the morning of (the exam was in the afternoon), so we spent the morning learning how to read maps and the skills/knowledge we'd need for the exam that day. So stressful!

I was stressed, but we didn't have time to think about it. The fact that it was on the day, and we just had to roll with it and do our best probably reduced the stress we would have felt had we realised earlier.

Retrospectively, I was upset as I went from sitting on a 20/20 prior to the exam to an 18/20 afterwards; was this due to poor mapping skills? I'll never know!

Triple exam burnout.

I had three exams in one day, about two to three hours for each.

I wrote a letter to the board of education and cried, devastated.

My mum brought me food etc in between each exam to get through it.

I still have nightmares about the HSC all these years later. Another funny one is I got 91.25 (my dad still uses this as a pin code lol) — a big achievement in our family.

Panicking on question one.

I was a maths nerd and studied really hard for the exam. I absolutely choked on the first question and spent the whole reading time trying not to panic and to find the answer to question one. I ended up running out of time.

I'm still annoyed, even though it doesn't mean anything now.

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