Schools close to Perth’s centre recorded the highest number of subjects where students scored in the top 15 per cent of the cohort.
The list of texts year 12 English and literature students study varies from Japanese animation,comics and television sitcoms,to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Shakespeare’s plays.
In total,4092 awards were awarded to 3722 students,with Perth Modern School,Christ Church Grammar School,Hale School,Rossmoyne Senior High School and Willetton Senior High School students featuring heavily.
Thousands of WA students have logged on to check their results,with some choosing to film the experience to capture their reaction to the score they have been working towards for years.
Mathematics expert and lecturer at Murdoch University Dr Brendan Florio said it was a “discriminator question” that set the top students apart.
For 18 WA students,opening their results held an additional surprise – a perfect score of 99.95. Here’s how they found out.
A total of 9992 students achieved an ATAR this year,with 18 of them receiving the ‘perfect score’ – all the same gender for the first time.
WA students are leaving high school without bridging the gap between the classroom and the workplace,experts say. So what needs to change?
A select group of West Australian students are challenging themselves by taking on the content included in ATAR courses before they reach year 12.
The government has made an announcement after revelations the number of WA public students doing year 12 had seen the country’s most dramatic drop over a decade.