By Jamie Salter
Nossal High School students have achieved top VCE results, despite Covid-19 lockdowns causing extended periods of remote learning.
More than 60 per cent of students received an ATAR score of above 90, with the median ATAR sitting at 93.7.
The mean study score was 35.5, with 26.9 per cent of students achieving a study score of more than 40.
Dux Robert Joseph reached an ATAR of 99.90 and celebrated with a morning tea at the school.
“It’s a great achievement and I feel like all my efforts are paying off,” he said.
“My whole cohort did really well.”
He said surviving bouts of remote learning was about having a positive mindset.
“I kept reminding myself that we were all in this together,” he said.
“I couldn’t imagine a school being any better.”
Mr Joseph will celebrate surrounded by family and friends and said he could not wait to see what life had to offer.
He has a passion for physics and engineering.
“This is just the start, now life will take-off,” he said.
Nossal High School principal Roger Page said he was very pleased with the Nossal VCE results.
“It’s one of the strongest results we’ve had,” Mr Page said.
“I’m very proud and very pleased with our students who managed so well during lockdown they’ve done exceptional work which is a credit to them, their teachers and their parents.”
