Dubbo College senior campus has jumped more than 100 places in NSW rankings for Higher School Certificate results on the back of some impressive results in the 2013 HSC.
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Based on the results released on Wednesday, the college has jumped from 551st to 441st in the state, an improvement of 110 places. St John’s College is still the leading Dubbo school, although it dropped this year to 317 after being ranked 234th last year.
The Dubbo College Senior Campus’ result come on the back of high achievers like Natasha Wykes, who scored the best Australian Tertiary Admission Rank in the city of 98.25.
The 17-year-old said she was delighted on Wednesday when she received her HSC marks but despite receiving five band sixes (a result of at least 90 out of 100), she was still worried she would come up short of her desired ATAR of 96.
All of those fears were put to rest as she logged on yesterday morning at 9am and saw the mark of 98.25 flash onto the screen.
“It was a good result. Better than I expected,” Natasha said.
“I didn’t think I was going to get 96 so I definitely had a good result.”
Natasha has applied to study arts and law at the Australian National University in Canberra and her mark effectively guarantees she will be accepted, although she will have to wait until the first round of offers are made by the universities on January 16 to find out for sure.
While she hopes to become a lawyer, focusing on international law and human rights, Natasha plans to take a gap year and like most of her fellow students, she is looking forward to enjoying a relaxing Christmas, free of study and stress.
“It will be nice to have a good time and not study every day,” she said.
Her classmates Jason Tyrell and Hsin Su were also well above average.
Jason scored 94.45 and wants to do a Bachelor of Science at either ANU or in Melbourne, while Hsin got 94.2 and is also leaning towards science but at the University of Western Sydney.
Jason already has a job and it had him awake well before results popped up at 9am yesterday.
“I worked between 1am and 4am at the bakery in Trangie then I slept for a bit before getting up, checking my results and driving into Dubbo for the morning tea,” he said.
Hsin said she hadn’t been too stressed in the weeks leading up to getting her results. A friend’s text woke her up on Wednesday morning and reminded her to check them.
“I was only stressed when I thought about it. It’s nice to have everything out of the way but it’s getting boring,” she said.
