Moree Secondary College students can breathe a sigh of relief as the anxious wait for their Higher School Certificate (HSC) results is now over.
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A total of 64 students from Moree Secondary College completed the HSC this year, sitting for a total of 240 exams – up on previous years.
Of those, students recorded four band sixes and 23 band fivess, which principal Peter Sheargold said was excellent.
“I’m really pleased with the results,” he said.
“Twenty-three per cent of all our results came out of those top three bands. I’m pretty happy; the kids have done really well.
“We had more kids sit more exams this year. In 2016 they sat 207 exams and they sat 240 this year.
“There’s a little bit of an improvement at the top – we went from 17 to 23 band fives.
“There was also improvement in the number of kids who got in the smaller bands too which shows kids are picking the right subjects.”
There were also 17 Aboriginal students who completed the HSC this year.
The school’s highest achiever was Jake Muggleton who received an ATAR of 94.35, with two band sixes in music and engineering studies and band fives in mathematics, physics and mathematics extension.
Jake hopes to get into Griffith University to study engineering.
Celine Deczynski also performed really well, getting a band six in society and culture and band fives or equivalent in biology, English advanced, modern history and history extension.
Celine said was happy with her results, saying they were better than she thought.
“The exams seemed like they were going to be so much more daunting than they were,” she said.
Celine plans to have a gap year before going to university. At this stage she’s not sure what she wants to study but is considering teaching. She currently has early entry to study a Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science at the University of New England.
The final student to receive a band six was Bernadette Quirk, who scored the fifth highest result in the state for primary industries.
“I was really proud of that,” she said.
Bernadette received band fives for the remainder of her subjects – biology, English advanced and society and culture.
“Overall I did well, I’m pretty happy with that,” she said.
Bernadette is also unsure of what she wants to study but is interested in environmental science or becoming a humanities teacher.
She has received an offer of early entry for the University of New England but plans to take a gap year before studying at either Armidale or Newcastle.
The graduating students would like to thank the teachers at Moree Secondary College for all they’ve done for them over the years.