One of Queensland’s brightest students has shared his Year 12 secrets

He was among the brightest students at Queensland’s top-performing school last year – and this is how he did it.

Student Anton Vellnagel graduated at the top of his class at Brisbane Grammar School, who have been named the No.1 OP school for 2018. Picture: Peter Wallis

HE WAS among the brightest students at Queensland’s top performing school last year, and Anton Vellnagel’s advice to this year’s Year 12 students is simply “stay busy”.

It certainly worked for the former Brisbane Grammar School student, who landed an OP1 and achieved a perfect ATAR of 99.95, putting him among the highest-achieving students in the state.

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Mr Vellnagel also found time during his senior years to be the school’s Captain of Music and excel at the violin, and represent Australia Youth Volleyball Squad.

He told The Courier-Mail his incredible academic results were unexpected, but a “pleasant surprise”. And he credited balancing extra-curricular activities, an active social life as well as studying hard with landing such a stellar result.

“I found that if I organised to play sport, go out with friends for a bit and allocate myself a finite amount to get my work done, it forced myself to concentrate.

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“I think at the end of the day, the key to success is keeping busy, it forces you to be organised.”

Brisbane Grammar School had a successful 2018, with 40 students receiving an OP1, more than half achieving an OP1-5, and four landing a perfect ATAR of 99.95.

Mr Vellnagel said that he was nervous starting at the school after attending a state primary school.

“I was thinking, oh god are they going to be all posh?”. But he said that he found the school extremely supportive and the students very down-to-earth.

His next challenge will be university, where he was set to study Medical Science at Griffith.