New South Wales (NSW, Australia) has an HSC (higher school certificate) math curriculum as shown in Figure 1. Year 12 Mathematics Extension 2 is the hardest math class taught at high-school there.
Let’s look at three problems from the Year 12 Mathematics Extension 2 HSC exam from several different years that became news stories and were considered hard.
Answering these questions requires prerequisite knowledge and awareness of the following math concepts: