Well generally our year (120+) is seen as lazy with a poor work ethic, but a few of us are set to kill the HSC. I think they have more hope for the year below us :).
The class of '06 at my school did a lot better than last year! (Then again out of like 100+ candidates 2 students got our school's 7 band sixes lol.) Overall the results of this year's HSC have been very impressive.
I'm pretty confident '07 will do even better next year - at my school anyway.
Yes it's pretty annoying.
All websites except for a few common search engines like Google, Yahoo, etc are blocked on the school's computers and most of the websites that come up in the search are largely inaccessible.
The only ones that are guaranteed to work are university websites.