Year of hard work pays off for OP1 student

HAYDEN Wirth set himself an ambitious goal at the start of the year: to be named his school's dux.

TOP MARKS: Hayden Wirth has scored an OP1. Picture: Contributed

HAYDEN Wirth set himself an ambitious goal at the start of the year: to be named his school's dux.

And the Isis District State High School student didn't disappoint.

Hayden was not only named dux, the student with the highest grades, but was further rewarded for his academic excellence and hard work with an Overall Position of 1.

He said he was pretty happy to see the result after having been given a prediction between 1 and 3 for his OP.

An OP is a student's position in a state-wide rank order based on overall achievement in Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority  subjects and is used for tertiary entrance purposes only, and indicates how well a student has achieved in comparison to all other OP-eligible students in Queensland.

With the top result under his belt, Hayden said he now planned to study a Bachelor of Advanced Science at the University of Queensland.

He said his major would be in biology, and he'd hope to land a research role centred on his interest in molecular biology.

The local academic said for his Year 12 schooling efforts, he also received subject awards for biology, chemistry, English and modern history.

While Hayden didn't know whether he was the only one of his cohort to get an OP1, the school congratulated the efforts of the Isis District State High School's class of 2018.

The school said 21.2 per cent of graduates got an OP 1-5, its best result in six years.