“It is such a shame the error was made in the first place,” she said. “I think at a time when kids have high hopes for their future, to get incorrect information from an essential organisation is extremely disappointing.”

The email error is the second controversy to plague the HSC class of 2022, after the NSW Education Standards Authority, which administers the HSC, accidentally published students’ marks online days ahead of their official release. That was the second year in a row students were able to look at their marks early.

In 2019, the NSW Education Standards Authority had to reprint 69,400 official HSC certificates for the graduating class of 2018 after they were mistakenly printed with the wrong date.

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