Hard work paid off for St John the Evangelist HSC graduate Sarah Hardie, who discovered she scored 91.25 in her ATAR on Friday.
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“I’m thrilled,” Sarah said.
“I’m just over the moon that it all panned out better than I’d hoped.”
Sarah qualified to study every university course she had preferenced, and she’s thinking of doing a commerce masters degree through the University of Wollongong where you do three months in Hong Kong, three months in Singapore, and three months in Dubai.
She had her mum by her side when the results arrived.
“Then I was just frantically calling friends, text messages were going everywhere, it was more being happy the pressure was off,” she said.
Her best results were in PDHPE, legal studies and English, scoring all band fives and one band six.
“PE was always something I’d done well at, it was something I enjoyed so I found it really easy to study for,” Sarah said.
“I had 12 units, it was a big work load but I got through it.
“It might have been easier to just do the 10 units, so I could have had a bit more focus and free time, but I don’t think I would have used the free time anyway.”
She really got stuck into it a month before the HSC.
“It was hard to stay focused coming out of half-yearlies and going straight into trials, and then straight into the HSC,” Sarah said.
“I had nothing left, so I just had to pull it out of the air and keep going.”
Sarah found the English papers to be most challenging.
“Mainly because of the time restraints, you couldn’t run over or you throw yourself in a ditch,” she said.
“The maths exam felt like a five-hour exam when it was really only three hours.”
The dux of St John’s Jackson Cocks scored an ATAR of 95.95.
He attained band sixes in chemistry, mathematics extension one and two and physics.
Jackson was on a cruise on Friday, but the South Coast Register had a brief chat with him.
Jackson said the University of Wollongong has been calling him about a number of scholarship opportunities.
The best thing about finishing the HSC?
“You can do everything you did before and not feel guilty about it,” he said.
Jackson is leaning towards a double degree in engineering and law.
He would love to be a lawyer, but knows job opportunities are scarce, so he’s coupling it with engineering.
Meanwhile, Thomas Page received a nomination for ARTEXPRESS for his Body of Work drawings ‘Lull City’.
St John’s students who attained a band six
Jackson Cocks
Sarah Hardie
Samuel Donald – Music
Siebren Dooper – Automotive
Amelia Galletly – Visual Arts, Ancient History
Caitlin Hancock – Mathematics
Cecilia Nelson – Mathematics
Thomas Page – Visual Arts.
Ashleigh Palmer – Legal Studies, PDHPE
Faith Pasco – Aboriginal Studies
