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Financial pressures, social isolation, academic demands and an incredible workload: a mother and daughter reveal the downsides of winning an independent school scholarship.

A SYDNEY mum has claimed the secretive intelligence test used by the NSW government to determine which children are gifted is seriously flawed after her “far superior” son returned the same mark as his twin sister.

NSW education minister says he is sceptical of claims that computers can do a better job of marking assessments than teachers.

The proportion of students doing high-level maths and science subjects in the HSC has steadily declined over the past 10 years along with Australia's performance in international tests, which experts say is linked to the country's attitudes towards STEM.