By Sarah Schwager
THE wait was over for hundreds of VCE students around Casey on Monday.
Students rang, sent a text message, or logged onto the Internet to check the results of the past arduous year.
Steve Phillips, the principal of Lyndhurst Secondary College in Cranbourne, said the school was very pleased with this year’s VCE results.
“They seem to be up on last year’s results as well, which is great,” he said.
Its top-scoring student was Joanne Sharp, who achieved an ENTER score of 95.8.
“The thing that we’re really pleased with is that all the kids who have made it to the end of the year have got their VCE, regardless of their results,” Mr Phillips said.
“A small number of students also completed the VCAL equivalent of the VCE, which is a big achievement for some of them.”
Hampton Park Secondary College VCE coordinator Shannon Keane said the school was delighted with the VCE results, and there had been a two per cent increase in results from last year.
“We are very pleased with the results,” Mr Keane said. “It’s all good stuff to hear.”
The school’s top-scoring student, Oscar Alarcon, received an ENTER score of 98.7.
Oscar studied eight subjects over three years – Specialist Maths, Maths Methods, Further Maths, English, Literature, French, Spanish and Chemistry. He studied two VCE subjects in year 10 and two in year 11.
Daniel Pampuch, the principal of Hillcrest Christian College in Clyde, was equally proud of his students this week.
He said Stefan Redpath was the school’s highest-scoring student, achieving an ENTER score of 90.6.
“All students in the top 20 per cent that I have spoken to have gotten into the course they wanted and scored above 80 per cent,” he said.
Berwick Secondary College assistant principal Anne Martin said the most outstanding results this year were in year 11, with a couple of students achieving perfect VCE subject scores.
The top-performing student among the school’s 200 VCE students was Sam Martin, with a 97.8 score.
The school is one of the largest Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL) providers in the state, and Ms Martin said Berwick Secondary College’s VCAL students had done the school proud.
“We are ecstatic with their results and that they are able to go on and do apprenticeships and so on,” Ms Martin said.
The News also contacted Cranbourne Secondary College and St Peters College about their VCE results, but they did not reply before the News went to print.
