An Australian tertiary admission ranking of 99.65 for Tim Williamson, seven students achieving an ATAR above 95 and the top ranking school in the region in both English and Maths reflect outstanding results for The Armidale School in the 2011 Higher School Certificate.
Tim Williamson, from Armidale, scored above 90 in each of his subjects, earning him a place on the Board of Studies’ All Round Achievers List.
“I was quite confident, a couple of the results were a little different to what I expected but really I’m very pleased. The teachers put a lot into us as a group,” said Tim, who plans to spend next year working at his old school as the “Chapel Gap’ student, before embarking on university in 2013.
He attributed his result to “good teachers, coffee and Jesus – but probably not in that order.”
Seven students – more than 10 per cent – of his year achieved an ATAR above 95, including Ben Brunckhorst from Armidale (98.85) and Hugh Maunder, a boarder from Attunga (98.6), who was the only other boy from the New England North West region to make the All Round Achievers List. The others were Joseph Kozera, Angus Begg, Callum Dillon, Thomas Walsh and Angus Trenerry, all from Armidale, and Levi McKenzie-Kirkbright, an Indigenous boarder from Sydney.
“It went pretty well. The marks were a bit mixed; I thought my science marks would be a bit higher but then English was better than I expected,” said Hugh, who was spending yesterday driving a header on the family’s Attunga property.
“Overall I’m pleased and should get into aeronautical engineering at the University of Sydney.”
Of 70 students at TAS who sat HSC subjects, 14, or 20 per cent of the cohort, received 34 mentions on the Sydney Morning Herald Merit List.
