HSC Results 2020

HSC Highlights

NSW Top Achievers 

The following students achieved one of the State’s highest places in an HSC course and also achieved a result in the highest band.

• Year 11 student Therese Briganti achieved second in the State in Italian Extension and fifth in the State in Italian Continuers.

• Amelia Milne achieved third in the state in Italian Extension.

• Nancy Bertoli achieved fourth in the State in Aboriginal Studies.

• Amelie Kenney achieved eighth in the State in Drama.

NSW All Round Achievers

Each year, students who achieve results in the top band for at least 10 units of HSC courses are recognised. This year one student gained such an honour.

Congratulations to Amelia Milne for achieving more than 90 per cent in at least 10 units.

Distinguished Achievers

• There were 60 Distinguished Achievers – students who were awarded 90 per cent or above in at least one course.

Honourable Mentions

• IGS students received 94 Honourable Mentions for the distinguished achievement of 90 per cent or above. This places our cohort more than 10 per cent above the State on this measure. 

• 100 per cent of students studying English Extension 1, Chinese Continuers, German Extension, Italian Extension, Japanese Extension, Spanish Continuers and Spanish Extension achieved in the top two bands.

• In our third year of offering this course, Aboriginal Studies candidates performed at 16.97 per cent above the State mean. In this course, 65 per cent of students achieved 90 or more. 

• In Design and Technology, IGS students performed 6.08 per cent above the State mean, and two students were nominated for the HSC showcase Shape 2020.

• In Drama, IGS students performed 8.12 per cent above the State mean, 10 students were nominated for the HSC showcase OnSTAGE and two students were selected.

• In PDHPE, our students performed 10.04 per cent above the State mean.

• In Spanish Continuers, our students performed 9.07 per cent above the State mean.

Students may complete HSC courses early via acceleration or compression. We congratulate 41 Year 11 IGS students who completed HSC courses this year.

Acceleration in Languages

32 Year 11 students accelerated in Languages. Students accelerated across five languages and eight language courses, in German Continuers, Japanese Continuers, French Continuers and French Extension, Italian Continuers and Italian Extension, and Spanish Continuers and Spanish Extension.

These students achieved a mean of 87 per cent. The highest result of 98 per cent was achieved by Therese Briganti for Italian Extension. Therese also achieved 96 for Italian Continuers, as did Gabriel Garcin for French Continuers and Grace Truman for German Continuers. 

Acceleration in Mathematics

Nine Year 11 students accelerated in Mathematics Advanced, achieving an average of 91 per cent. 

The highest result was earned by Grace Truman with 98, followed by Alex McArdle with 97, and Nika Mikhin at 96.

Aboriginal Studies via compression

For the first time, a group of our Year 11 students completed both the Year 11 and Year 12 Aboriginal Studies courses in one year. Their average result was 90 per cent.

The highest result, of 95, was achieved by Isabel Whitaker, followed by Anya Hayward with 93 and David Thom with 92.

Nominated for ARTEXPRESS

• Eliza Brunsdon: The glass ceiling
• Eve Mitchell-James: Evanescence

Nominated for ENCORE 

• Oscar Killick-Dodd: Enter Lanturnia (composition)

Selected for OnSTAGE 

• Amelie Kenney: Critical Analysis Research Project of the 2004 play, A Certain Maritime Incident (CMI) 
• Eva-Marie Workman: Costume Design for Tartuffe by Molière

Nominated for OnSTAGE 

• Amelie Kenney: Critical Analysis Research Project of the 2004 play, A Certain Maritime Incident (CMI) 
• Eva-Marie Workman: Costume Design for Tartuffe by Molière

Individual performance nominations:

• Leah Charles: Lady M
• Lana Credazzi: Maniac
• Ava Jenkin: Wasted
• Ilse Johannsen: Cabeze de lobo
• Bianca Kotoulas: Charolais
• Lily McGuinness: Letters to Lindy
• Astrid McKinley: 1 in 3
• Nye Morrison: The weir

Nominated for Shape

• Angus Dowling: Cricket farm for sustainable protein
• Otis Taylor: Multilingual video outlining beach safety 

A word about The Sydney Morning Herald school rankings
The SMH defines “success rate” as the number of Band 6 marks (90 per cent and higher) achieved by students in a school, expressed as a percentage of potential Band 6 marks or exam entries. On this measure, IGS was placed 96th with a “success rate” of 16.35 per cent. The median “success rate” for NSW schools was 5.47 per cent. Other measures that create a fuller picture of students’ effort and achievement are set out in this summary, and we commend all our students on their many achievements.  

Extension Course results

Distinguished achievers

Distinguished Achievers are students who receive a top band result – 90 per cent or more. Their names appear on the NSW Honour Roll for Distinguished Achievement. IGS students achieved 94 honourable mentions on this list. 60 IGS students achieved at least one result over 90 per cent.