LAST MINUTE NEWS!
2015 YEAR 12 RESULTS Canberra Grammar School is delighted to congratulate the NSW Higher School Certificate (HSC) and International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme students of Year 12 2015 on an excellent set of results. Individual and subject per formances in the HSC this year were amongst the School’s ver y best over the past decade and they stand as tribute to the hard work and high aspirations of students and staff alike. Patrick Hendy, Jonathan Moore and James Treloar are to be congratulated on gaining placements in the top ten of the state for individual subjects and we congratulate nine students on gaining places on the All Round Achievers’ List for attaining over 90% in 10 or more of their units: Shane Arora, Sahil Chopra, Brendan Falk, Patrick Hendy, Ivan Ip, Kevin Jacob, Ryan Jeffreson, Joshua Martin and Stephen Melhuish. Likewise, we congratulate the School Captain, Brendan Falk, who was dux of the School’s HSC cohort with a superb overall result of 99.85. Once again this year, upper band results in the great majority of subjects were well beyond state percentages in Bands 5 and 6, with especially strong performances in the following subjects in which Band 6 percentages alone significantly exceeded the state percentages: •
Agriculture: 75% Band 6 compared with 7% for the state
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Software Design and Development: 75% Band 6 compared with 8% for the state
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Ancient History: 43% Band 6 compared with 8% for the state; and
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Biology: 23% Band 6 compared with 6% for the state.
In addition, students taking Chemistry, Modern History, History Extension and General Mathematics attained at least triple the state percentage in Band 6, while Economics, Physics
and French Continuers students at least doubled the state percentage at Band 6. Efforts in English in recent years also saw a threefold increase in top level results in Advanced English. Schools taking the HSC under the New South Wales system do not receive ATARs and cannot therefore produce ATAR statistics. Nonetheless, as a non-selective school, Canberra Grammar School is especially proud that students gained 152 places on the HSC Honour Roll for top Band results. 98% of students will graduate with an ATAR. The School’s second cohort of IB students also performed exceptionally well. With an impressive median ATAR of 93.25, the School’s second ever group of IB students gained an average IB score of 35. This exceeds the Australian, Asia-Pacific and global averages for the IB and is exceptionally pleasing, especially for a non-selective cohort from across the academic spectrum of the School. 24% of the group attained IB scores of 40 or higher (equivalent to ATARs above 98), while 64% of students attained IB scores equivalent to ATARs above 90, and 88% gained ATARs above 85. We are particularly pleased to congratulate Nicolas Guesnon, who was dux of the IB cohort with an exceptional IB score of 44 and an ATAR of 99.85, making him co-dux of 2015. Taken together, the students’ IB and HSC results in 2015 represent historically high performance for the School, with around 25% of the combined HSC/IB year group receiving ATARsover 95, the highest proportion on record. We congratulate all boys once again and thank them for their great contribution to the life of the School.