The 2024 VCE honour roll by the numbers – Brisbane Times

There were 37 students who achieved two perfect scores, three students who posted three perfect scores and two students, Cayden Tan from Box Hill Secondary College and Joel Cheok from Camberwell Grammar School, who recorded four highest scores.

Keep in mind that a study score is distinct from an ATAR, the rank out of 99.95 which is the culmination of results across multiple subjects and includes other weightings.

For some of 2024’s year 12 cohort, this isn’t the first time their names have appeared in the honour roll. Some who achieved a 40+ score in any final-year subjects they undertook in 2022 or 2023 would have appeared in the list for those years too.

There are 2605 students who achieved a 40+ score in 2024 who also achieved at least one 40+ score last year, and a further 60 who managed a 40+ score all the way back in 2022.

In each of the subjects that attract the most enrolments, there are more than 1000 high achievers. In English, 3051 students achieved a score of 40 or more, in general mathematics there were 2205, there were 1210 in psychology, 1167 in mathematical methods, and in biology there were 1083.

Some students opt to complete one or more final-year VCE subjects in year 10 or year 11, which means this honour roll is not a definitive list of their 40-plus scores, only the ones they achieved this year.

And not all students who achieved a score of 40 or above show up in the honour roll. At the start of the year, about 10 per cent of those enrolled in VCE subjects opt out of allowing their details to be published.

On Saturday morning, we will publish a second VCE interactive on The Age’s website that focuses on overall school results. This interactive will let you view key data about each school’s year 12 cohort this year, its median VCE study score and the percentage of its study scores that were 40 or above.