While ChatGPT can help, Australian students must remember to think for themselves

2025’s Year 12 students are the first group in history to have gone through their final years of high school with widespread access to Generative AI models like ChatGPT.

For better and for worse, students have always had access to model writing and external tutors to help them with assessments.

But now, with the push of a few buttons, whole essays can be churned out and submitted in a matter of minutes.

It makes the question over whether to scrap end-of-year exams look further away than it ever did. 

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