After months of stress and study Albury HSC students finally received their results, with principals across the city praising their hard work but reminding the teenagers success can’t be defined by a single score.
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James Fallon High School principal Jennifer Parrett said 42 of the 69 HSC graduates were already placed in the tertiary program of their choice, before receiving their ATAR.
“Whatever their numbers say, the destinations of our students are already planned and under way,” she said.
“They have achieved results that are the culmination of hard work, tenacious drive, and positive attitudes.”
Murray High School’s reliving principal Michael Brigden said their engineering students achieved some outstanding results, far exceeding the state average.
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He said many Murray students had already been offered early entry into universities including La Trobe, Wollongong, and the University of Canberra.
Many other students had gained traineeships and three had been accepted into an Australian Defence Force gap year program.
“Sophie Collins is one of our stand-out students, who has already been accepted in the University of Melbourne’s Kwong Lee Dow Young Scholars program,” he said.
Albury High School principal Darryl Ward said HSC was a long process that takes commitment from all students who complete it.
“Some students were the first to achieve the HSC in their family, an amazing achievement,” he said.
Mr Ward said two students, David Lee and Ashley Saultry, made the All Rounders list by achieving a Band 6 in six or more subjects while there were another 22 students on the Distinguished Achievers List.
“I wish all of our students the best in the rest of their life regardless of their results,” he said.
Xavier High School principal Gavin Dykes said students received band-six results across six subjects but importantly 50 per cent of HSC students had gained early entry to university, and 49 per cent had attained apprenticeships, traineeships or employment for a gap year.
He said the school aimed to ensure students had many options for their career pathways beyond school, and the 2018 cohort certainly reflected these aims.
Scots School Albury principal Penny Mahy said 21 students were included in the Distinguished Achievers List including Bree Poole who made the All Rounders list for excelling across her subjects.
She said the large number of successful students was down to the small class sizes and one-on-one attention they were able to be given.
Trinity Anglican College principal Justin Beckett said 50 per cent of Trinity students in English Extension 1 received top-band results, along with 12.5 per cent of Trinity’s Mathematics General students.
He said 11 Trinity students collectively had 19 subject scores above 90.
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