Et tu? More Queensland high schools taught wrong Caesar topic as student speaks out after exam

A statue of Gaius Julius Caesar in Turin, Italy. While the influential Roman was the topic of this year’s Queensland final year history exam, about 140 year 12 students had instead studied his adopted son and heir, Augustus. Photograph: Panther Media GmbH/Alamy

The number of students who spent their last weeks of year 12 preparing for a final exam on the wrong Caesar has grown to 140 across nine schools, with one of those affected describing the bungle as “really disruptive”.

Guardian Australia spoke to the student on Wednesday afternoon after they completed the ancient history external exam.