VCE 2020: Top scorers honour roll revealed

A 15-year-old with a near-perfect score and a Melbourne student with the first 99.95 in his school’s history. Search every top scorer in this database of Victoria’s high-achieving students.

Mordialloc College students David Le with Kijana Pauline, William James Lhuede-O’Meara, Jasmine Ristevski, Noreigh Zuniga, Callum Roberts, Anya Biaroza and Ava Collison. Picture: Wayne Taylor

VCE students with a top study score of 40 and above have been revealed in a searchable honour roll.

Search from over 19,000 names in our database below to see the students who blitzed 2020.

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STUDENTS WHO ACHIEVED 99.95 ATAR

Trinity Grammar: William Browning, Andrew Lim

Ruyton: Maya Wilmshurst

Xavier College: Nicholas Kennedy

Penleigh and Essendon Grammar: Eric Lee, John Miao

Melbourne Grammar School: Eric Wang, Oscar Zhu

Mordialloc College: David Le

Balwyn High: Chuting (Tina) Tang

Brighton Grammar: Jaikob Akinci

Camberwell Grammar: Jamie Garnham, Ryan Tam, Tory Crosgrove

Haileybury: Jun Wen Lin, Oscar Jeffrey

John Monash Science School: Chen Wang

Mac Robertson Girls School: Celina Chear

Melbourne Grammar School: Eric Wang, Oscar Zhu

Mentone Girls’ Grammar: Ella Phillips

Mount Scopus: Joshua Golshevsky, Marty Schwarz

Scotch College: Rion Ahl, Yichen Jiang, Yang (Gordon) Jin, Nicholas Kluckow, Joshua Poon, Darren Tan

Westbourne Grammar: Divine Emezie, Luke Tarola

Beaconhills College: Sam Sail

Yarra Valley Grammar: Eric Liu

Loreto College Ballarat: Sarah Harrington

Caulfield Grammar: Zijin Xu

STUDENTS WITH MOST (3) PERFECT SCORES

Westbourne Grammar: Divine Emezie, Luke Tarola

St Bedes: William Bunn

Scotch: Yang Jin

Our Lady of Sion: Emma Daly

15 YEAR OLD STUNS WITH NEAR PERFECT SCORE

A 15-year-old student from Kardinia International College has notched a near-perfect ATAR score, making him one of the highest, and youngest, achievers in the state.

Kardinia International College student Zane Gates, 15, who received a 99.8 ATAR, said he didn’t check his score until midday, despite results coming out five hours earlier.

Zane Gates. Picture: Alison Wynd

“I don’t really care about it all that much, I’ve never been someone to worry about a certain number, but I guess 99.8 isn’t bad,” Zane said.

“I’m much more proud of everything I’ve learnt this year rather than the number.”

The Jan Juc teen, who skipped kindergarten, grade two and year 10, studied math methods, physics, specialist maths, English, Japanese, legal studies and algorithmics.

He said he hopes to study maths or law at a university next year.

His remarkable achievement comes as Mordialloc College’s David Le achieved the first 99.95 ATAR score in the school’s history.

David, who will turn 18 in March, said he was hoping for a score of 99 but was delighted with 99.95 which will ensure entry into biomedicine at Melbourne University.

“A friend asked me if I was happy and I hadn’t even looked but when I saw my mark I was in complete shock,” he said.

David completed two subjects last year and four this year at the government school.

He said while the lockdown had its challenges it did help him focus.

David Le is Mordialloc College’s first student to score 99.95. Picture: Wayne Taylor

“There were ups and downs. It gave me freedom to focus to work hard on my subjects and work independently,” he said.

“But it was a struggle because we have not been able to socialise.

“I would like to thank the teachers who helped during the year.”

Mordialloc College principal Michelle Roberts said she was delighted with the school’s first 99.95 ATAR and the overall performance of students.

“Overall, our students have performed exceptionally – such persistence and positivity amid the challenges of remote learning. Remote learning may not have always been easy but through the collective efforts of everybody we made it work.”

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