An amazing 16 students scored a UAI of 99.0 or above with three on 99.90. Ten of these girls from both the HSC and IB Diploma candidature we able to meet back at school in January 2008.

The HSC and International Baccalaureate Diploma Results for the Candidates of 2007

• 2007 - Good thinking '99'!
• Recipients of the Premier's Trophy
• Combining the HSC and IB Diploma Results
• Merit Lists and Schools' Rankings
• Best in State in an HSC Subject
• The Honour Roll of Top Performers
• MLC Adds Value
• Best of the HSC Major Works and Performances on Show
• 2006, 2005 Results
• Staff Achievement

Three of the five girls awarded 2007 Premier's Trophies with Mrs Stone and Head of School Ms Maree Herrett.

2007 - Good thinking '99'!

At the release of the HSC results, the media stated, “the graduates of 2007 were a talented group, academically”, and all at MLC School Burwood would agree. Our Year 12 for 2007 confirmed their status as one of the most successful years ever with an astounding 10 percent of students scoring a University Admissions Index (UAI) over 99.0.

Combining the HSC and IB Results

At MLC School the real picture emerges just after New Year when we are able to combine the HSC results with the International Baccalaureate Diploma Results. About 20 percent of girls sat for the IB Diploma in 2007; this year, 30 candidates from the 161 graduates.

Recipients of the Premier's Trophy for all round Excellence in the HSC

Five students were awarded Premier's Trophies for all round excellence for achieving over 90 in 10 units of study. They were Wei-Hua Chen, Alisha Gore, Paridhi Jain, Nancy Ng and Shirley Wong.

Merit Lists and Schools’ Rankings

Each year the media rank schools by the number of times students appear in merit lists (scoring over 90 in a course) in relation to the number of attempted courses taken. When MLC includes the International Baccalaureate Diploma courses, a figure of 24 percent puts the school well inside the top schools in NSW. Merit listing across the IB Diploma for MLC sits at 36 percent, well within the top 20 schools.

Choosing a school because of its ‘ranking’ is a practice many school principals, like Barbara Stone of MLC, find flawed because of its narrow focus on merit lists. Mrs Stone Stone says, “These ranks would do better to acknowledge the achievement of the comprehensive school with extraordinary results across alternative programs.

“Catering for a diverse range of student abilities is a more valid criteria for most parents than the annual list of top ten schools, which is just a confirmation of expected good results from the same schools due to academic selection of students. The list won’t really reflect any school’s true performance while the media’s criteria is merit listing. Real merit lies in what measurable value a school can add for each student over time.”

International Baccalaureate Diploma Statistics

In terms of the Internatioal Baccalureate Diploma results for the Novemeber examinations we are able to give you good comparitive statistics. For the November 2007 examinations 2,025 Diplomas were awarded worldwide, with 1,037 of these being in Australasia.

*The maximum score or 'Perfect Score' in the IB Diploma is 45 converting to a UAI of 99.95. The UAI is an Australian University Indexing system and the approximate figures are just given to provide a recognisable comparision within and Australian university context.

Best in HSC Subject Lists

NAME	AWARD	COURSE
Soo Chung Han	5th	Japanese Beginners
Lucy Fraser	6th	Visual Arts
Paridhi Jain	8th	Studies of Religion II
Sumita Theagesan	10th	Geography
Irina Perederienko	Recipient of the 2007 Vocational Student Prize for NSW, for exceptional skill, commitment and achievement in a school based VET	Hospitality
Pictured Right: One of our students mentioned in the Best in HSC Subject Lists for MLC

The Roll of Top Performers

MLC Adds Value

MLC’s results statistics are analysed by an independent consultant to ascertain the degree of ‘value added’ an MLC School education makes. Each student’s School Certificate results from Year 10 are compared with their Year 12 results to see if they have improved in the two years or exceeded expectations. The 2007 results for MLC indicate that 92% of students attained or exceeded our expectations, a remarkable result of which we are justifiably proud.

The University Admissions Index Scores

Students receive their UAI's following the HSC Results and IB Diploma Scores. These scores clarify their total results in a figure that gives parity to the different States and Territories school systems.

Looking at the UAI scores for university entry further clarifies the remarkable picture for MLC. Not only did 16 candidates score 99.0 and above but over 30 percent of the MLC girls scored a UAI of 95.0 and above. 51 percent scored over 90, over half the year group, putting them all in the top 10% of all the candidates in NSW.

Median score all students at MLC School - 90.2
Median score for the HSC at MLC School - 86.7 Median score for the IB Diploma at MLC - 97.7

The MLC vs State UAI Scores

The table clarifies the MLC performance against state average which shows the significance of a score of 51% scoring over 90 for a comprehensive high school without any academic selection.

The HSC girls came back to celebrate their results with congratulations all round. For many it was a wonderful surprise to achieve UAIs beyond their personal estimations.

"Way beyond my expectation"

While so much of the in the media focus is on the top one percent of achievers, MLC School considers the success of any student who achieves a score significantly beyond what they might have achieved elsewhere is the real measure of success.

On the morning of the results many such students bounded back in to MLC with enormous smiles to thank their teachers and be congratulated by peers.

Brae Mort heads now to Media Communications at UTS with a score of 94.5. “I had a lot lower expectations for my UAI. This is way beyond what I thought. I am very surprised and happy. One thing that made the difference was the teachers’ extra help. They are champs!”

MLC spends a great deal of time profiling their girls’ potential and then stretching them to achieve this. Amelia Bunker on 98.5 said, “Weirdly enough my results were exactly what our Careers Advisor predicted, however personally, I did not expect them at all.”

Top Band Performance across the Subjects

The table below outlines the number and percentage of MLC students achieving Bands 5 and 6 (the top two bands in each course of study). This is then compared to the percentage of the State’s candidature also achieving at this level.

Members of the HSC Visual Arts class for 2007 meet again with their teacher to celebrate their remarkable success at such an outstanding level.

Best of the HSC Major Works and Performances On Show

• MLC take six artists to ArtEpress

MLC School has an outstanding reputation for success in Visual Arts built up over the last five years. Head of Department Craig Malyon has had 16 MLC students’ work chosen for ArtExpress since joining the school in 2003. ArtExpress is the exhibition of exemplary practical works from each year’s HSC candidates. It is displayed from late January in galleries throughout Sydney, including the Art Gallery of NSW.

While a dynamic and creative artist himself Craig is more seriously dedicated to having the girls reach nothing less than their absolute best in both art practice and theory. This year with 100% for the HSC examination Lucy Fraser was sixth in the state in Visual Arts.

An astonishing eleven girls were nominated for the prestigious Art Express from a class of 24.

Craig also teaches MLC’s International Baccalaureate Diploma students where 100 percent of his candidates scored in the top two bands.

• Design Tech

The Technology Educators’ Association nominated the innovative works of Lucy Fraser and Isabelle Doh for inclusion in Design Tech

• Encore

Danielle Blaydon had her composition Laudannamelcia nominated in both the performance and composition categories for Encore, the concert of outstanding musical works from the HSC, to be held at the Sydney Opera House in February.

• OnStage

Rowena Hutchison has had her major portfolio work for Drama included in the Foyer Displays as part of the OnStage celebrations for HSC Drama at the Seymour Centre.

2006 Results

Congratulations to the five MLC students who were Top All-rounders and who receive the Premier’s Trophy for Excellence for scoring over 90 in 10 HSC units. They were: Angela Kintominas, Tamarin Schafer, Katherine Wong, Simmi Zahid and Farah Zaman. Angela Kintominas referred to, “passionate teachers that turned the classroom into the occasional adventure” as being a contributing factor to her success.

Similarly the eight students who achieved a UAI of 99 and above have demonstrated remarkable academic ability and commitment.

MLC girls achieved 10 mentions in HSC courses in the Best in Subject List. It is very pleasing to see the diversity of courses and subjects represented across the teaching departments of MLC.

Stephanie Wise 1st Entertainment, Genevieve Woods 3rd Indonesian Extension, 4th Ancient History, Lisa Ngamsukpaisan 5th Business Services, Il Joo Moon 5th Japanese Beginners, Minette Shuen 6th Textiles and Design, Tamarin Schafer 7th Studies of Religion, Roopam Singh 9th Accounting, My Tran Thai 12th Business Services

Stephanie Wise was also a recipient of the 2006 Vocational Student Prize for NSW for exceptional skill, commitment and achievement in a school based VET course.

Genevieve Woods is an accelerated student who has achieved this wonderful result while still in Year 11.

MLC’s results statistics are analysed by an independent consultant to ascertain the degree of ‘value added’ an MLC School education makes. Each student’s School Certificate results from Year 10 are compared with their Year 12 results to see if they have improved in the two years or exceeded expectations. The 2006 results for MLC indicate that 92% of students attained or exceeded our expectations, a remarkable result of which we are justifiably proud.

The International Baccalaureate Diploma was chosen by 21% of MLC’s 2006 Year 12 class. The average Diploma score for these girls was 34, converting to a UAI of 95.4. In percentages, 50% scored a UAI over 95 and 69% over 90. Four of the eight 99+ scores for MLC were IB Diploma graduates.

Samantha Sundercombe was our top scoring student in the International Baccalaureate Diploma with a Score of 44. In 2005 there were only 28 students world wide with this score. Samantha commented on her results that it was important to, “love your subjects; do things because they are interesting, and no matter how difficult they get remember why you did them.”

Nine students achieved the maximum 3 bonus points for their outstanding work in the compulsory course, Theory of Knowledge, and the 4000 word Extended Essay. They were Mobinah Ahmad, Reni Atanassov, Jacqueline Baird, Ingrid Hu Stephanie Kaiser, Cleo Lam, Samantha Sundercombe, Sui-Zheng Trinh, Jenny Zhu.

2005 Results

The 2005 HSC Results for MLC this year were very pleasing as the girls again demonstrated a breadth of excellence across the many courses offered by the School.

From the Class of 2005 61 students received 171 mentions on the HSC Honour Roll for receiving Band 6 in an HSC course. This in 56% of MLC’s HSC candidates and they achieved this over a diverse 32 courses.

Helen Chan was the top student in HSC Physics and also received the perfect UAI – a score of 100. Helen was also mentioned in the Best in Subject list for sixth place in Advanced English. Lauren McClean was also mentioned on the Best in Subject list for 10th place in Textiles and Design. Rakhi Birla in Year 11 studied 2 unit Hindi Continuers externally and we congratulate her on topping the State in this HSC Course.

MLC also celebrated with seven Top All-Rounders, students who scored 90 or above in 10 or more units in the HSC. These girls were presented with a Premier’s Trophy for all-round Excellence Over the last five years MLC girls have received 40 Premier’s Trophies.

In the HSC a number of courses achieved 100% of their students in the top two bands, Bands 5 and 6. These courses were Drama, English Extension 1, Food Technology, Visual Arts, Indonesian Extension, Latin Continuers, Accounting and Entertainment. Although some of these courses have quite a small candidature it is remarkable in any course to have all students performing at the highest levels.

IB High Achievers

International Baccalaureate Results

In 2005 39 candidates produced very impressive results. 26% of Year 12 in 2005 chose to sit for the International Baccalaureate Diploma.33 of the 39 IB candidates (84%) received a UAR of over 90 with 34% of the girls scoring a UAR of 99.15 or above.  25 candidates scored a total of 60 Grade 7s (the highest Grade) across 24 IB courses. In the compulsory Extended Essay 13 girls scored and A Grade. The IB also awards possible bonus points for work in the Extended Essay and compulsory Theory of Knowledge courses. Six girls scored the maximum 3 bonus points.

With this larger candidature we can now see that those girls choosing the International Baccalaureate Diploma are achieving excellent results across the board and in comparison to the world candidature MLC’s ranking is outstanding. 

Our highest ranked IB candidate Kirstin Proft, with a score of 44.

Staff Achievement

Ms Vicky Zinopoulos, Mr Justin Madigan

Vicky Zinopoulos was awarded a NSW Department of Education – Premier’s Westfield History Scholarship in 2007. all scholarship recipients were invited to a reception at Government House, where they were addressed and congratulated by the Hon Morris Iemma.

The scholarship, organised by the NSW Department of Education and funded by Westfield, entails a $15,000 grant to teachers to fund overseas study in any field of History related to NSW Preliminary and HSC ancient and Modern History Syllabuses. the application procedure for the awarding of the scholarship is a highly involved process. Applicants need to submit a proposal that includes a detailed itinerary of their study tour as well as explaining
how their study will improve learning outcomes for their students and enrich the teaching of their subject area beyond the school.

Vicky’s proposal “bringing the bronze age to life in the classroom” will involve her touring the key bronze age sites in Greece and Turkey during April 2008, collecting resources and developing online activities and resources for our Years 11 and 12 Ancient History course.

We also congratulate Mr Justin Madigan. Each year Macquarie University seeks applications from teachers in partner schools for postgraduate scholarships. This requires a formal application and an interview. In 2007, Mr Justin Madigan, Head of Sutton House and an HSIE teacher was successful in winning a scholarship. The scholarship will enable
him to commence postgraduate studies in Educational leadership in 2008. We wish him every success with his studies.