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Class of 2017
families lies in each boy's journey across the broad canvas of our School.'
MR STEVE DE DOMENICO, AND HEAD OF FORBES HOUSE, MS ALICE COOK CELEBRATE THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF JERRY LUO, DANIEL QIN, WILLIAM M SUTHERLAND, ANGUS RITCHIE, OLIVER MCLEISH,
Ritchie and William M Sutherland scored the maximum possible ATAR
of 99.95, and are, therefore, the duces of Scotch College for 2017
• Nine boys (3.6 per cent of the cohort) obtained an ATAR of 99.90
or more (top 0.1 per cent in the population)
• 20 boys (8.1 per cent of the cohort) obtained an ATAR of 99.50
or more (top 0.5 per cent in the population)
• 31 boys (12.5 per cent of the cohort) obtained an ATAR of 99.00
or more (top 1 per cent in the population)
• 55 boys (22.2 per cent of the cohort) obtained an ATAR of 98
or more (top 2 per cent in the population)
• 82 boys (33.1 per cent of the cohort) obtained an ATAR of 95
or more (top 5 per cent in the population)
• 125 boys (50.4 per cent of the cohort) obtained an ATAR of 90
or more (top 10 per cent in the population)
• 189 boys (76.2 per cent of the cohort) obtained an ATAR of 80
or more (top 20 per cent in the population)
• The median ATAR was 90.38
•
Measures of ‘value add’, comparing ability testing data from earlier
years and ATARs, indicate a very strong performance from this cohort
(Note: the population referred to in the ATAR statistics above is the
population of the statewide Year 7 cohort from 2012, including those
students who moved or left school before Year 12.)
• There were 17 ‘perfect’ scores of 50 across nine subjects
• 12 Year 12 boys obtained scores of 50, including: Edward Buckland
(Physics), Adam Ho (Further Mathematics), Peter Ho (English), Letian
(Tony) Jiang (English EAL and Specialist Mathematics), Zi Feng (Tian
Tian ) Lan (English and Literature), Jerry Luo (Literature), Thomas Macky
(English), Dissanayake (Gehan) Premaratne (English), Zi Xuan (Daniel)
Qin (English Language), Angus Ritchie (French), William M Sutherland
(French) and Han Chen (Kevin) Zhang (English)
• Three Year 11 boys obtained scores of 50: Christopher Chamberlain
(Mathematical Methods), Ziang Wei (Mathematical Methods) and Joshua
Zhi Hao Yong (Mathematical Methods).
TOM BATTY — PRINCIPAL
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