This year's 12th grade examinees, now must be busy preparing their own Trial (model test), nervous about their future, towards their favorite college or professional efforts.
But did you ever know that there was a examinee of your parents' age who entered the examination room this year.
He was-Uncle Hector, the 50-year-old refugee from Iraq, Hector Argus Hanna.
（Hekmat Alqus Hanna）
Does that sound familiar?
Can't help reminiscent of "the King of the first examination of China"-Liang Shi
The college entrance examination failed 20 times, but the more daring it is.
But unlike Liang, this year's HSC is really about his future direction rather than going to the college entrance examination as an interest.
A 50-year-old doctor, he worked as a general practitioner in a village near Mosul for 17 years before coming to Australia, where he later became a stronghold of Islamic groups.
He also said he worked with emergency services to take medication for people in the mountains of Iraq, but until 2010, when he and his family suddenly began to accept death threats.
They fled to Lebanon, where they stayed for two years before being accepted as refugees by Australia before arriving in Sydney.
However, when he was relieved, he faced new challenges, and though he had enough experience, he was not recognized.
Well-trained overseas doctors can be certified by the Australian Medical Council, but if they can't get a degree certificate or a degree certificate that can't be approved by Australia, as Uncle Hanna did, They need to re-study.
Doctors need to complete a six-year undergraduate degree, followed by at least one year of postgraduate clinical training, while becoming a general practitioner requires at least three years of training, according to a spokesman for (UNSW) at Xinnan University.
Although the requirements were so harsh, the uncle still did not give up.
"I have to be a doctor again, because in my previous life, I was just a doctor," he said. "I don't know how to do anything else."
As a result, two months after his arrival in Sydney, he began language school and entered 11th grade at the age of 49.
He arrived at a senior college called Blackstown, one of the largest groups of adult seniors in New South Wales, with 57 out of 71 12th-graders over the age of 20.
This class, not only for normal-aged high school students, but also for older students like uncle, is a multi-cultural and multi-age class.
Uncle Hanna says it gives him a better understanding of young people and different cultures, especially his daughters and sons.
"through my own college entrance examination experience, I can better understand how the Australian college entrance examination HSC and scoring system ATAR work, and I can discuss with my children and help them decide which subjects they choose and their future."
One of his favorite studies, he says, is that he is competing with his 17-year-old daughter, who studied many of the same science and mathematics subjects in 11th grade.
"We can talk about things and help each other," Hanna said. "it's a great competition with my family.
My daughter is smart. She's smarter than me. She's much better than me. "
And miraculously, uncle's wife also enrolled in Banstown Advanced College, 11 th grade.
Uncle said she wanted to be a nurse, but would not study with him.
"my wife doesn't like to study with me because she says I'm too kind," he said. "she doesn't want to compete with me."
The editor just wants to say that a family of five can go to school together, go to high school with his wife and daughter,
Uncle, there's no one else!
And for the upcoming examination, the uncle expressed great concern.
Uncle Hanna said: "I'm very nervous about my exams because I didn't do what I used to do."
"when I was a student, I always came first. But I'm old and I don't remember as well as I used to, but it's my responsibility to get good grades. "
Even so, my uncle is really high achiever, and every class is top-notch, including English as a second language (ESL), general mathematics (general maths),.
Arabic and biology.
Uncle's goal is, New South (UNSW) 's medical science major, needs 96 points of ATAR..
New South students, you may find the next year, there is an uncle sitting next to you in lecture or tutorial, don't panic, don't think you are not listening to the teacher, do not think of a student's parents.
But our inspirational uncle-Hanna.
Finally, I wish the students of the HSC College entrance examination this year, good results in the examination, ambitious universities and majors!