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**AFR FIRST USE** Generic gen23 exam test high school certificate education students testing hsc. Photographed at Northern Beaches Secondary College Freshwater Snr Campus in Sydney on June 20, 2024. Photo: Dominic Lorrimer

Better oversight of HSC top achievers’ private coaching needed

Sydney’s estimated multimillion-dollar private tutoring industry is continuing to grow but a lack of regulation means its impact on the education system is difficult to assess. 

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Top HSC students share their university choices.

The hardest university degrees to get into, and the ones where ATARs are falling

Top HSC students share their university choices – including one for whom it’s just a back-up until he can get into an American institution.

  • Daniella White and Nicholas Osiowy
HSC science dux Yeshaya Ram, Chinese and French dux Thomas Collins, English ace Grace Costigan and Warren Song, first in extension 2 maths.

The HSC subjects in which more students get better marks

The HSC scaling report belies the notion that doing easier courses is the path to success. See how every course scales in our searchable list.

  • Cindy Yin
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HSC students receive university offers: Search our database for cut-off scores

Use our interactive database to search for university and college courses throughout Australia in 2025 and their minimum entry requirements.

  • Craig Butt, Christopher Harris and Cindy Yin
Epping Boys High students receiving their HSC results. The school was a top-performing comprehensive school in mathematics.

The state’s top schools for HSC mathematics revealed

Epping Boys High had its highest share of maths students achieving marks above 90 on record, while Abbotsleigh and Meriden were among the top private all-girls schools.

  • Lucy Carroll and Nigel Gladstone
St Clare’s College in Waverley achieved a higher HSC success rate than Kincoppal Rose Bay.

The low-fee Sydney schools that outrank expensive rivals in the HSC

Schools including St Clare’s in Waverley and Parramatta Marist High are outperforming high-fee private schools.

  • Lucy Carroll and Nigel Gladstone
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Kambala Head of English Greta Beaumont with HSC students Evangeline Chu, Sasha Van Onselen, Ansalee Desai, Gabriella Gamerov, Jessica Allen-Waters, Stephanie Harvey-Fros and Sophie Regan.

The top schools for HSC English revealed

Eastern suburbs private girls’ school Kambala was the best school for the subject in the 2024 HSC. Here’s how they did it.

  • Christopher Harris and Nigel Gladstone
Warren Song, Yu Tong Duong and Julia Zheng, from James Ruse Agricultural High School, all received 99.95 ATARs.

Meet every student who got 99.95 in this year’s HSC

One Sydney private boys school claimed one-quarter of the 51 perfect ATARs.

  • Lucy Carroll, Mary Ward and Ricky Blank
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How your school ranked in the 2024 HSC

See the top schools and look up your school in our interactive list.

The schools that surged up the HSC rankings – one by 220 places

When the new principal was appointed in early April, this Sydney high school was struggling with an urgent need to fill more than a dozen vacant teaching positions.

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