Vic: Boys outnumber girls at top VCE level

AAP General News (Australia)
12-15-2008
Vic: Boys outnumber girls at top VCE level

After months of study and sleepless nights .. 31 of Victoria's top school leavers have
achieved the highest possible marks out of the almost 50-thousand final VCE results released
today.

Three students from prestigious Xavier College achieved the highest ENTER score of 99.95.

That's despite the suspension of all 250 year 12 students from the last three days
of classes before exams .. following misbehaviour at their end-of-year muck-up day in
October.

The Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre says while girls have continued to outperform
boys overall among the 49-thousand and 30 students .. boys have again outnumbered girls
in the top rankings.

Of students with an ENTER of 90 or more .. 55.8 per cent were girls and 44.2 per cent were boys.

But 21 boys and 10 girls scored the top rank of 99.95 .. compared with 19 boys and
13 girls last year.

VTAC said by 8.30am (AEDT) today .. 22-thousand-823 students had received their ENTER
scores via SMS and more than 40-thousand had checked their results online.

AAP RTV ees/pmu/tm/wz

KEYWORD: VCE (MELBOURNE)

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