AS it did last year, Kelso High had three Band 6 achievers in this year’s batch of HSC students.
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Although some students felt as though they could have done better, Kelso High principal Mick Sloan said he was really pleased with all the students who sat their exams.
“Thirteen years of school doesn’t boil down to the one moment,” he said. “I’m extremely proud of this year group and of all of the students at Kelso High.”
After expecting to get a Band 6 in health, Amy Dickson said she was impressed with her top mark in biology.
“I’m pretty happy with my results considering I just waffled through it,” she said.
Some students at Kelso High had already been accepted into university, which only eased the stress. For one, however, it made her work harder.
“I had already been accepted to study a music degree at Excelsia, but that only made me study more,” Emily Geerkens said.
“I don’t think I would have got the results I did if I didn’t get accepted early.”
Student Mark Day will travel overseas to play cricket before his studies continue.
“I will be going to India and the UK for cricket before uni, where I will study a double degree in exercise and sport science, and sports management at Canberra,” he said.
After obsessing over a career in law since an early age, one Kelso High student is on her way to take on that profession.
“I have always wanted to do law, and I have been accepted into UNSW to study a degree in law,” Susannah Winkelman said.
Lachlan Smith said the HSC was very stressful, but after 13 years of school, he is on his way to study a degree in medicine at a Sydney university.
“It is very rewarding to see all the years at school pay off,” he said.
“Life is unpredictable; who knows what life has in store.”
Caroline Harvey, meanwhile, will take a gap year before she focuses on a degree in psychology.
“I’m excited to go anywhere and be anyone,” she said.
The three Band 6s went to Bud Lambeth in earth and environmental science, Elizabeth Talbot for music, and Amy Dickson for biology.