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VCE marks reveal a gender divide
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CANTERBURY Girls' Secondary College reflects the trend of girl power trumping the competition in the VCE results.
Canterbury Girls' is Victoria's best public school behind elite selective-entry government schools Mac Robertson Girls' High and Melbourne High.
The school has capped off its 80th year by achieving a median study score of 35, and boasts 20 per cent of individual subject results of 40 or more.
Country colleges also held their own against the city schools. The Hamilton and Alexandra College at Hamilton, in Victoria's west, got a median study score of 33 and 15 per cent of subject marks were 40 or more, ranking it among the state's best.
Traditionally strong public school Glen Waverley Secondary College stood out among elite private school performers. Glen Waverley achieved a median study score of 35, and 15 per cent of study scores were 40 or over, ranking it in the top ten government schools.
Nineteen girls-only schools this year achieved median subject scores of at least 35 out of 50, compared with seven co-educational schools and six boys-only colleges.
Last year, 14 girls schools achieved median subject scores of at least 35, a feat achieved by nine co-ed schools and four boys colleges.
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Top scorers: VCE 2008 achievers
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In 2006, nine of the 15 top-performing schools were girls-only. For the seventh year in a row, the state's best performer was selective-entry state school MacRobertson Girls High School, with a median study score of 38 out of 50.
Ruyton Girls School, in Kew, was the top private school (37).
Ballarat Clarendon College was Victoria's best regional school for the sixth year running (36). Ten students achieved an ENTER over 99, and their median ENTER was 86.40.
Melbourne's Jewish schools excelled at the top end of the scale, with Mount Scopus Memorial College, Bialik College, Leibler Yavneh College, Beth Rivkah Ladies College and Yeshivah College (all 37).
Beth Rivkah principal Samuel Gurewicz said girls' maturity gave them the edge over boys in the classroom. The school had 42 VCE students this year, three achieved an ENTER over 99, and more than half of the girls gained over 90.
"Like all teenagers they want to have fun, and our girls are no different, but they look for the kind of fun that will not distract them from their studies," Mr Gurewicz said.
He said the St Kilda East school performed well in the VCE because academia was treasured in Jewish culture.
"We are called the People of the Book. Study is embedded in our culture so that is the secret to our success," he said.
Beth Rivkah dux Ronit Travers, who achieved an ENTER of 99.60, will take a gap year for religious study. She plans to be a pediatrician or surgeon.
Close friends and top-scoring classmates Yael Prawer (99.45), and Michal Segman (99.05) will join Ronit in Israel.
Michal, 17, battled glandular fever this year and was staggered by her high ENTER.
She said she felt anxious about how her illness would impact on her results.
"It was tough year . . . I came to realise if you want something enough, no matter what challenges, if you want it then you will get it," she said.
Michal said she had only enough energy to come to school for three hours a day for the first two months.
MacRob and Melbourne High accept students from year 9, and by entrance exam only. Between them they are not allowed to poach more than 5 per cent of another school's year 8 students.
The same rules will apply to a new select-entry school in Berwick, which is due to open in 2010. |
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