Celebrating our 2017 results

2017 Victorian Certificate of Education results

The month of December is a significant one for all Year 12 students across the state. Not only does it mark the official end of secondary school for these students, it is also the time when they receive details of their academic performance in the Victorian Certificate of Education. All members of the St Patrick’s community share an interest in the academic performance of the Year 12 class. It is a time to celebrate the academic excellence and endeavour of individual students and of the year level as a whole. Following is a summary of the academic achievements of the Year 12 class of 2017.

General information:

• 200 boys completed Year 12 studies at St Patrick’s College in 2017. 98% percent of these students attained their VCE.

• 357 students were enrolled in at least one VCE Units 3/4 subject. These boys completed studies in 40 different VCE Unit 3/4 subjects in 2017.

• There were 30 study scores of 40 or above before scaling and an additional 11 study scores of 40 or above after scaling. These scores were attained in 15 different VCE and VET studies.

• Seven students attained an ATAR (Australian Tertiary Admission Rank) of 90 and above. A further 17 students attained an ATAR of 80 and above.

• The 2017 College Dux, with an ATAR of 98.95, was Joshua DeVoogel. Congratulations to Joshua on this outstanding result!

• The median study score for all VCE and VET studies was 29 and the median ATAR was 60.45.

• 154 Year 12 students applied for a tertiary place (77% of all Year 12 boys)

• 258 students were enrolled in at least one of the 21 VCE VET certificates studied in 2017, attaining 96% unit competency completion.

Traditionally, an ATAR of 90 or above has been used as a measure of academic excellence. In 2017, seven students attained this outstanding result:

Timothy Collier

Joshua DeVoogel

Lachlan Furlong

Thomas Millard

Samuel Rousch

Henry Ward

Corey White

When the academic performance of the 17 boys who attained an ATAR score of 80 and above is combined with these boys, then it becomes clear that many students in the Year 12 class of 2017 have attained a very high level of academic excellence.

A study score of 50 represents the highest mark achievable within the VCE for any particular subject. This outstanding result was achieved by Nathan Suttie in Further Mathematics. A truly outstanding result by Nathan and one that aptly reflects the exceptional quality of Nathan’s work and his commitment to his classwork throughout 2017. Congratulations to Liam and his Further Mathematics teacher, Mr Barry Schuurs.

One of the measures commonly reported on to assess academic success in VCE studies is the number of study scores of 40 and above. Following is a list of boys who attained this result both before scaling and after scaling (*):

Given	Surname	Year	Study	Score
Lachlan	Fahey	12	Australian History	42
Thomas	Millard	12	Australian History	42
Brandon	Pryor	12	Australian History	43
Joshua	DeVoogel	12	Biology	41
Henry	Ward	12	Biology	40
Elliott	Lamb	11	Business Management	40
Lachlan	Suttie	11	Engineering Studies (VCE VET)	41
Lou	White	11	Engineering Studies (VCE VET)	41
Nicholas	Elliott	12	English Language	42*
Henry	Ward	12	English Language	41*
Corey	White	12	English Language	41*
Nicholas	Carta	12	Further Mathematics	43
Bradley	Castleman	11	Further Mathematics	41
Luke	Castleman	11	Further Mathematics	40
Charlie	Fenton	12	Further Mathematics	41
Declan	Gannon	11	Further Mathematics	45
Casey	Haseloff	11	Further Mathematics	44
Blake	Lim	11	Further Mathematics	40
Conlon	Love	11	Further Mathematics	42
Samuel	McCrum	11	Further Mathematics	40
Xavier	O’Shea	11	Further Mathematics	41
Lachlan	Owens	11	Further Mathematics	40
Nathan	Suttie	11	Further Mathematics	50
Zak	Wilson	12	Further Mathematics	40
Henry	Ward	12	Health and Human Development	40
Callum	Hofler	12	Literature	41*
Joshua	DeVoogel	12	Literature	40*
Lachlan	Furlong	12	Mathematical Methods	46*
Samuel	Coxall	12	Mathematical Methods	41*
Joshua	DeVoogel	12	Mathematical Methods	44*
Thomas	Millard	12	Mathematical Methods	40*
Samuel	Rousch	12	Mathematical Methods	42*
Timothy	Collier	12	Specialist Mathematics	42*
Joshua	DeVoogel	12	Specialist Mathematics	45*
Lachlan	Furlong	12	Specialist Mathematics	47*
Lachlan	Furlong	12	Physics	40*
Max	Edwards	12	Product Design and Technology	41
Joshua	DeVoogel	12	Religion and Society	49
Callum	Hofler	12	Revolutions	40
Samuel	Williams	11	Revolutions	44
Lachlan	Furlong	12	Software Development	41

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The VCE (Baccalaureate) was introduced in 2014 to support the State Government’s objectives to encourage more students to include languages and higher level mathematics in their senior secondary program of study. This year, the Victorian Certificate of Education (Baccalaureate) was awarded to James Duffy, Nicholas Elliott, Thomas Hughes, James Lam and James Wait. Congratulations go to each of these boys!

2017 also saw the first group Applied Learning student awarded certificates from the Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning program. The following boys received their Senior VCAL certificate in 2017:

Dale Cox

Lachlan Gillespie

Jay Homewood

Jesse Pascoe

Doohan Pettitt

Riley Shaw

St Patrick’s offers a variety of learning pathways to ensure that each boy has every opportunity to achieve personal success. This is perhaps best reflected in the 11 students who successfully attained an apprenticeship (along with an additional five students who gained an apprenticeship before the commencement of the 2017 school year), the nine boys who were successful in gaining direct employment and the further five students who were successful in attaining a position with the Australian Defence Forces during 2017.

I would like to conclude by acknowledging the fine work of all St Patrick’s teachers and our support staff. The College’s level of academic success in 2017 did not happen by chance. It reflects a commitment to establishing a teaching and learning culture that values and supports academic excellence and endeavour. This has happened because St Patrick’s teachers remain committed to continually reviewing and developing classroom programs that provide every opportunity for our boys to experience academic success.

Mr Stephen Hill

Acting Headmaster