A record number of NSW students received Higher School Certificate results yesterday, with almost 73,000 passing at least one course.
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As students rushed online to discover their marks, the NSW Board of Studies released two merit lists, including the names of almost 1286 all-round achievers, who placed in the top band of 10 or more HSC units, and about 16,000 distinguished achievers who achieved a top band result in any course.
About 700 students from the Illawarra, South Coast and Southern Highlands were named on the distinguished achievers list. Almost 60 per cent of these were girls but boys won out in the all-rounder stakes, taking nine of the region's 14 places.
Smith's Hill High had the Illawarra's most distinguished achievers with 85 of the selective school's students gaining top-band marks in at least one course. Private girls' schools - Frencham in Mittagong and St Mary's Star of the Sea College in Wollongong - also performed well with 38 students from each school achieving entries on the list.
Thirty-three students from Holy Spirit College in Bellambi gained the top band in a course, while 32 students from Chevalier College and 30 students from both Kiama High and Bowral's Oxley College were listed.
Wollongong High School of the Performing Arts had 25 distinguished achievers and St John the Evangelist Catholic High School and Ulladulla High had 22 and 20 students on the list respectively.
More than 80 per cent of this year's HSC students will today receive an Australian Tertiary Admissions Rank, or ATAR.
