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The WA suburbs where local schools topped the ATAR charts

Schools close to Perth’s centre recorded the highest number of subjects where students scored in the top 15 per cent of the cohort.

  • Holly Thompson

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Recommended texts for year 11 and 12 English students include comics, films and novels.

From Shakespeare to Marvel: What WA students could study in year 12

The list of texts year 12 English and literature students study varies from Japanese animation, comics and television sitcoms, to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Shakespeare’s plays.

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Kevin Castle from Kent Street Senior High School and Ethan Yap from Perth Modern School.

Meet the WA students who won the state’s top education awards

In total, 4092 awards were awarded to 3722 students, with Perth Modern School, Christ Church Grammar School, Hale School, Rossmoyne Senior High School and Willetton Senior High School students featuring heavily.

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Lilia Bradley (left) was one of many WA students to open their ATAR scores over the weekend.

‘I couldn’t believe it’: WA students react to their ATAR scores

Thousands of WA students have logged on to check their results, with some choosing to film the experience to capture their reaction to the score they have been working towards for years.

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Dr Brendan Florio, Lecturer in Mathematics in the School of Mathematics, Statistics, Chemistry and Physics at Murdoch University, WA.

This ATAR question was so difficult, the average WA student scored just 35 per cent

Mathematics expert and lecturer at Murdoch University Dr Brendan Florio said it was a “discriminator question” that set the top students apart.

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John Peiris and Ethan Widjaja, from Perth Modern and Aarnav Goradia, from Duncraig Senior High School, all scored the top ATAR of 99.95 in 2024.

The 2024 honour roll: WA students with the highest ATARs revealed

For 18 WA students, opening their results held an additional surprise – a perfect score of 99.95. Here’s how they found out.

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Almost .… students sat the ATAR exams in WA this year.

WA’s ATAR results revealed for class of ’24

A total of 9992 students achieved an ATAR this year, with 18 of them receiving the ‘perfect score’ – all the same gender for the first time.

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Head with an open book and a light bulb as a metaphor for a new idea. Art collage.

WA’s year 12’s are finished with school, but have they learned enough?

WA students are leaving high school without bridging the gap between the classroom and the workplace, experts say. So what needs to change?

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Yin Chen and Zachary Rumball from Scotch College and Hannah Wang from MLC Perth.

The youngest WA students tackling the ATAR revealed

A select group of West Australian students are challenging themselves by taking on the content included in ATAR courses before they reach year 12.

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About 15,080 students sat the selective school entry test this year.

WA school system to be overhauled in face of plummeting graduate numbers

The government has made an announcement after revelations the number of WA public students doing year 12 had seen the country’s most dramatic drop over a decade.

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