2007 Academic Achievements

Congratulations

The Friends' School community congratulates the 2007 Year 12 Leavers on their outstanding TCE and International Baccalaureate results. Their achievements were once again unmatched by any other school or college in the State. Nine Friends' students were in Tasmania's group of top 32 pre-tertiary students.
While it is impressive that 56.7% of our TCE and 72.2% of our IB students were ranked in the top 10% of Australian students we are more thrilled by how well the whole Year 12 cohort performed, with 96.6% of the group matriculating.
Obviously, these results could not have happened without a great deal of hard work, dedication and a love of learning. I also firmly believe that they reflect the caring and supportive partnership of students, families and teachers that is so characteristic of the culture of Friends'.
We know that many of our students will use these results, along with the values they have developed as Friends' students, to pursue their passions and live adventurously. It is with this knowledge that we wish them every good fortune in achieving their aims.

John Green
Principal

Principal’s Report on 2007 Pre-tertiary Examination Results

Key to Abbreviations: TCE is Tasmanian Certificate of Education. The TCE consists of a range of one-year subjects. Most students study four or five subjects each year. IB is the International Baccalaureate. IB consists of two-year subjects and all students study six subjects for two years. Both the TCE and the IB are pre-tertiary qualifications culminating at Year 12.

TER is Tertiary Entrance Ranking, a ranking of all Year 12 students in Australia. TE Score is Tertiary Entrance Score, an accumulation of the student's best five subject scores in Years 11 and 12, with a maximum of two subjects to count from Year 11. TE Scores are theoretically out of 20 per subject but can be scaled higher or lower than 20 depending on the perceived degree of difficulty in the examination and the subject.

The Friends School Students Achievements

The 2007 TCE and IB results were once again outstanding.

Each year the top 0.5% (TER of 98.4) are recognized. This year, including IB, nine students from The Friends' School were ranked 99.5 or above ie 9 in the top 32 students.

A comparative listing of schools with students in this group is set out below.

The Friends School 9, Hutchins 5, Scotch Oakburn College 3, Launceston Church Grammar 3, Launceston College 2, Elizabeth College 2, Don College 2, Hobart College 2, Rosny College 1, Guilford Young College 1, Marist College 1, St Michael's Collegiate 1,

TCE top 100

Each year the list of the top 100 students in the state is published and this is was no exception. Due to ties this year's list was for 103 students and they received a TER of 98.4 or above. A comparative listing of schools and colleges with students in this group is set out below. It should be noted that the list does not include our International Baccalaureate Diploma students.

In addition to the 25 Friends School students listed below 3 IB students received scores above the 98.4% cut off.

The Friends School (Clemes College) 25, Hobart College 11, The Hutchins School 9, Guilford Young College 7, Launceston Church Grammar 7, Scotch Oakburn College 6, St Michael's Collegiate 5, Don College 4, Launceston College 4, Rosny College 4, St Patricks College 3, Fahan School 2, Newstead College 2, Claremont College 1, Leighland Christian College 1, Marist Regional College 1, St Brendan Shaw College 1, St Mary's College 1.

The total number of TCE and IB students eligible to matriculate was 152 (128 TCE and 18 IB) with 96.6% matriculating.

The 2006 Number was 152 (98.5%)

The 2005 number was 137(99.2%)

The 2004 number was 152 (98.7%)

The 2003 number was 128 (98.5%)

The 2002 number was 134 (98.5%)

The following are more detailed statistics.

TCE students

62 TCE students achieved a TER of 90 or more, which represented 47% of the TCE students who matriculated.

41.8% of Friends' TCE students were placed in the top 5%

33 (23%) students obtained a TE Score of 100 or above.

95% of the TCE candidates were in the top 50%

The average TER was 85.

IB Students

18 students completed the IB. 16 were awarded full Diplomas with 13 of the 18 students achieving a TER of more than 90 placing them in the top 10% of pre tertiary students.

The average IB score was 34.11 (World average was 30.72 and the Australian average was 33.58) and the average TER for the IB students was 92.7

7 of the 18 IB candidates (50%) achieved TERs of 95 or more.

TCE and IB Students

Number of TCE and IB students with a TERs of 90 and above was 62.

The percentage of students with a TER of 99 and above (ie top 1% of the ranking) was 14.2%. That is 14.2% of our candidates were in the top 1% of Australia.

The percentage of students with a TER of 95 or over (i.e. top 5%) is 41.8%.