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TWO of Ipswich’s highest scoring ATAR students have credited good old fashioned hard work as the difference between success and mediocrity in the tumultuous year that has been 2020.
St Edmund’s College student Thomas Parker scored 99.4 in the new ATAR system – the equivalent of an OP 1 under the old system.
His St Eddie’s classmate Max Banditt scored 97.8, putting himself among the top 10 per cent of students across Queensland.
Both have set themselves up for a bright future, and both credited the long hours they put into their schooling during those uncertain weeks of lockdown.
Education by Antonia OâFlaherty and Shiloh Payne 20th Dec 2020 5:03 AM | Updated: 6:11 AM
Premium Content  The jubilation came as the new end-of-school ranking system glitched in the first few hours, with schools unable to access results from 9am until 1.30pm. Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre would not comment on the cause of the issues, but schools reported QTAC had confirmed high website traffic overloaded the portal. Brisbane Grammar School was one of the top schools with four graduates, Lewis Luck, Tom Dickson, William McEniery and Remi Fox achieving the highest Australian Tertiary Admission Rank of 99.95. The school also reported a staggering 70.57 per cent of its cohort achieved a ranking of 90 or above, with a median ATAR of 94.6.
Education by Antonia OâFlaherty and Shiloh Payne 20th Dec 2020 5:03 AM | Updated: 6:11 AM
Premium Content  The jubilation came as the new end-of-school ranking system glitched in the first few hours, with schools unable to access results from 9am until 1.30pm. Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre would not comment on the cause of the issues, but schools reported QTAC had confirmed high website traffic overloaded the portal. Brisbane Grammar School was one of the top schools with four graduates, Lewis Luck, Tom Dickson, William McEniery and Remi Fox achieving the highest Australian Tertiary Admission Rank of 99.95. The school also reported a staggering 70.57 per cent of its cohort achieved a ranking of 90 or above, with a median ATAR of 94.6.
Education by Antonia OâFlaherty and Shiloh Payne 20th Dec 2020 5:03 AM | Updated: 6:11 AM
Premium Content  The jubilation came as the new end-of-school ranking system glitched in the first few hours, with schools unable to access results from 9am until 1.30pm. Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre would not comment on the cause of the issues, but schools reported QTAC had confirmed high website traffic overloaded the portal. Brisbane Grammar School was one of the top schools with four graduates, Lewis Luck, Tom Dickson, William McEniery and Remi Fox achieving the highest Australian Tertiary Admission Rank of 99.95. The school also reported a staggering 70.57 per cent of its cohort achieved a ranking of 90 or above, with a median ATAR of 94.6.
Class of 2020 waking up to new score After a tumultuous final year hit hard by COVID-19, the class of 2020 - pioneers since their very first day at school - will wake to another first on Saturday.
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Subscriber only More than 40,000 Queensland students will make history today as the first cohort to graduate with a Year 12 Certificate under the new senior school curriculum with thousands to receive the state s first ATARs. The Class of 2020 were the first full cohort of Prep, the first Year 7 students in high schools and the first Queenslanders to receive the Australian Tertiary Admission Rank, which Education Minister Grace Grace said made them educational pioneers .