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Catholic College Bendigo student Amy Sanson took out the award of dux with an ATAR of 99.5.
Principal Brian Turner said Ms Sanson had worked hard for her award.
"Amy's teachers have praised her extremely strong work ethic and humble approach to her achievements.
She is definitely a quiet achiever with a strong sense of social justice.
Amy was awarded a perfect score of 50 in further mathematics and dux in french, chemistry, futher mathematics and mathematics methods CAS.
Bendigo Senior Secondary College student Claire Mika achieved an ATAR of 99.45.
She said she planned to study at La Trobe for as long as she could.
Ms Mika said she would definitely do something with animals.
Principal Dale Pearch said he was proud of the students' hard work.
"Claire has put in hours of hard work and shown wonderful commitment to achieve this score and the hnour of being Dux," he said.
Laura Brookes scored the next top score with 98.05.
Wedderburn College dux Jarvis Holt scored a 94.1.
As a school captain Mr Holt has had a busy year at school.
He said on Monday morning he had pictured the worst-case scenario for his ATAR.
"I got it via text this morning and I had my parents in my room waiting for the text before 7am," he said.
He said he was excited to get the opportunity to move to Melbourne to study media and communications at Swinburne university.
UPDATE 11.30pm: Catholic College Bendigo student Amy Sanson achieved an ATAR of 99.5.
UPDATE 11am: Bendigo Senior Secondary College dux is Claire Mika, who achieved an ATAR score of 99.45.
Claire's individual study scores were: Further Maths 43, Business Management 50, Chemistry 44, English, Language 45, Biology 43, Maths Methods 42.
The next top scoring student was Laura Brookes with an ATAR of 98.05.
Laura achieved study scores of: Biology 40, Health and Human Development 48, Literature 40, Further Maths 35, Psychology 50, Sociology 40.
Felicia Porsch - along with Claire and Laura - also achieved a perfect study score of 50, in German.
Principal Dale Pearce said he was proud of the students and the hard work they put in to achieve some wonderful results.
“The college is extremely pleased with these results. Claire has put in hours of hard work, and shown wonderful commitment to achieve this score and the honour of being the dux of BSSC."
"Well done to all of our students who have done their best and persevered through years of school work and exams. This work has now paid off. Best of luck to all of the students as they pursue their future plans.”
BSSC’s careers team will be available to help students that want to change their preferences until Friday, December 19. Change of preferences close at midday on December 22.
UPDATE 10.30am: GIRTON Grammar School captain Thomas Duke has achieved a perfect ATAR score of 99.95.
Georgina Jenkins-Smales also placed in the top one per cent across the state, with a score of 99.55.
Headmaster of Girton Grammar School, Matthew Maruff, said the school's overall results were excellent and commensurate with VCE results for the school in recent years.
“Teachers and students have worked so hard and these results are just reward for effort,'' he said.
“Our students have supported one another and together, strove for their best, united by a camaraderie and common purpose.
“We believe that learning involves working in partnership with parents and nurturing the growth and development of the whole person, so our parents are also to be acknowledged in these great results.''
Girton has today announced that 11 per cent of students finished in the top five per cent of the state, 25 per cent finished in the top 10 per cent and 54 per cent of students finished in the top 20 per cent. Nine students achieved perfect scores of 50 in subjects including mathematics (Thomas Duke, Liam Murphy and Zoe Deed), English Language (Thomas Duke), music investigation (Andrew McKinnon), studio arts (Sophie Rhule), outdoor and environmental studies (Riley Luke) and sociology (Leah Hotker).
UPDATE 8am: Bendigo Senior Secondary College has had an increase in students achieving Australian Tertiary Admission Rank scores over 90.
Principal Dale Pearce said the school was "really happy" with the results.
"We're really happy with the results and particularly pleased that we have an increase in ATAR's over 90," he said.
"We're also really happy for all the students who might not have achieved that highly but still worked really hard."
He advised students and parents to be aware that students could change their university preferences until December 22.
He said the school's careers staff would be on hand to provide advice to families.
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8.10am: "You are more than a number."
This is the Monday morning mantra being sold to nervous VCE students by their parents and teachers as those all-important VCE results appear online.
And a Fairfax Media analysis of the scores required to get into university shows that old consoling line is more true than ever before: for almost half of all Victorian degree courses in 2014, the ATAR (Australian Tertiary Admission Rank) was just one factor among many – or no factor at all – in the selection process.
One of the big questions - how does scaling work? VTAC adjusts the Study Scores for each study to take account of how strong the students were in the study and how difficult it was to achieve the middle ranking.
The strength of competition in each study is measured by how well the students performed in all their other studies.
For example, in chemistry in 2013 the average Study Score was 30, but the students who took chemistry averaged 34 for all their studies (including chemistry).
This shows that the students who did chemistry in 2013 were of above average strength in their other studies.
Therefore, the scaling process adjusted the Study Scores upwards so that the average VTAC Scaled Study Score for chemistry was set at 34.
8AM: The wait is finally over for 47,032 Victorian secondary school students set to receive their hard-earned end-of-year score – the Australian Tertiary Admission Rank – on Monday.
More than 18,000 year 12 students registered to receive their ATAR by text message. However, they can also log on to resultsandatar.vic.edu.au from 7am, or wait for a printed statement in the post on Tuesday or Wednesday.
[The VCE completion rate in 2014 was at an all-time high of 97.7 per cent.]
The VCE completion rate in 2014 was at an all-time high of 97.7 per cent.
Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre director Catherine Wills congratulated students on their successful completion of the VCE, and noted the continuation of a recent trend: girls outperforming boys.
"The average ATAR for girls was 64.4 and for boys it was 62.2," she said. "However, at the highest level, 22 boys received the top ATAR of 99.95, compared with 11 girls."
The VCE completion rate in 2014 was also at an all-time high of 97.7 per cent, including a record 22,945 male students and 26,259 female students. In addition, 12,946 students completed a VCAL certificate in 2014, the most since the introduction of the program 12 years ago.
-The Age