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Officials at Reddam House school in Bondi have revealed how they stay at the top of the HSC maths results list.

A family stretched its budget to the maximum to secure the original-condition three-bedroom cottage, which has sold four times in less than a decade.

Advertisement Kate Waddington suffered none of Sydney's usual middle class angst over where to send her twins James and Mia to high school. "We are just really lucky to live in an area where the local public schools are fantastic," she said. "We're pretty keen on public education as well, and it's easy when the local schools are that good. There's certainly a fairly high-socio economic demographic here, and that does help to a very large extent as well. It certainly doesn't do any harm." Twins Mia and James Waddington attended Mackellar Girls and nearby Balgowlah Boys High respectively. Credi...

Advertisement Maths teachers shared pre-exam jitters with their students ahead of this year's HSC. Three new syllabuses were tested for the first time and, with limited sample materials, departments felt they were running blind. "People were so nervous about how things would go," said Baulkham Hills High School principal Jeannie Bathgate. Her maths staff scrutinised every corner of each course syllabus, which included new statistics and financial maths topics for advanced and extension 1 maths, and harder mechanics and proof topics in extension 2 . "They were super careful to cover absolutely...