14-year-old Jerry Mao receives perfect VCE study score
VICTORIA’S selective-entry schools and their elite private counterparts have shared bragging rights for the state’s highest VCE scorers.
Almost 700 perfect study scores have been awarded this year.
One recipient is aged just 14.
Caulfield Grammar School had the most perfect scores of 50, accruing 29 across its two campuses.
The selective Melbourne High School and Mac.Robertson Girls’ High School each had 26.
Scotch College and Haileybury posted a total 25 and 18 perfect study scores respectively ahead of St Kevin’s College’s 17 and Balwyn High School’s 15.
Glen Waverley Secondary College was another government school to shine with 11 maximum study scores, along with McKinnon Secondary College with 10 and University High School with seven.
The figures come as the Herald Sun publishes names of the state’s top VCE scorers in each subject.
More than 14,700 students have attained at least one study score of 40 or above to earn the title.
Monash University Dr Libby Tudball said the achievement took commitment not only in year 12 but throughout a pupil’s school life.
“They are motivated and they have maximised their learning opportunities in school,’’ she said.
This year’s top scorers list — which includes only students who gave permission for results to be published — shows St Kevin’s starred in English with seven students listed with a perfect score of 50.
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Nossal High School excelled in Further Maths with five perfect scorers listed, Melbourne High topped Maths Methods with nine and Scotch had four listed in Specialist Maths.
Mac.Rob and Nossal were Psychology perfect score magnets.
Firbank Grammar, Sacred Heart College Geelong and Sacred Heart Girls’ College Oakleigh shared honours in Health and Human Development.
Caulfield Grammar’s Jerry Mao, 14, received a perfect study score in Units 3 and 4 of Specialist Maths — outperforming students four years his senior.
The year 8 student, who showed promising skills at an early age, had aimed for a perfect score but was shocked to achieve it.
“It was definitely something that was very exciting for me to find out. I didn’t believe it,” he said.
>> NUMBER OF PERFECT SCORES
Caulfield Grammar School: 29
Melbourne High School: 26
Mac.Robertson Girls’ High School: 26
Scotch College: 25
Haileybury: 18
St Kevin’s College: 17
Balwyn High School: 15
Methodist Ladies College: 14
Nossal High School: 13
Melbourne Grammar School: 13