Higher School Certificate success in 2020
James Ruse Agricultural High School topped the 2020 HSC Honours list in the HSC for the 25th consecutive year – maintaining its position as the top high school in NSW.
The stellar achievements in 2020 include:
7 students achieving ATAR of 99.95
- Dineth Fernando
- Eric Huang
- Winston Huang
- Anthony Hwang
- Grace Li
- Alexander Phan
- Sariena Ye
Over 50% of students achieves an ATAR over 99.00 (top 1% of NSW).
77 out of 161 Year 12 students recognised on the Premier’s List for All Round Achievers, with results in the top possible band for at least 10 HSC Course units.
6 First in Course state rankings by achieving the top HSC course result.
- Junline Guo | Agriculture
- Jason Liu | Agriculture
- Alexander Phan | Mathematics Extension 2
- Shravan Suriyanarayanan | Music 2
- Sariena Ye | Chemistry
- Sariena Ye | Physics
21 places in the Top Achievers in Course state rankings list by achieving one of the top places in the HSC course. (see table below)
234 students recognised as Distinguished Achievers with results in the top possible band in at least 1 HSC Course unit.
10 ENCORE Performance HSC Music Nominations
- Darryl Chen
- Eva Ge
- Ruoxin Hua
- David Myungchan Kim
- Samuel Lam
- Harry Lan
- Sathmi Ranasinghe
- Shravan Suriyanarayanan
- Ramon Wang
- Jerry Jiarui Wang
2 ENCORE Composition HSC Music Nominations
- Eva Ge
- Sathmi Ranasinghe
1 OnSTAGE Individual Project, Monologue Performance HSC Drama Nomination
- Brendan Lin
Top Achievers in Course State rankings:
| Name | Subject |
|---|---|
| Carungay, Abigail Bennett | Agriculture (#3) |
| Fu, Yi Ning | Science Extension (#3) |
| Guo, Junlin | Agriculture (#1) |
| Hua, Claire Zhilin | Latin Extension (#5) |
| Huang, Richard Yanzhou | Chemistry (#6) |
| Li, Andrew | Mathematics Extension 1 (#3) |
| Li, Andrew | Mathematics Extension 2 (#5) |
| Lim, Pei Ling | Agriculture (#7) |
| Liu, Jason | Agriculture (#1) |
| Newman, Anna | Agriculture (#3) |
| Ng, Vincent | Software Design and Development (#5) |
| Phae, Yeon Woo | Agriculture (#9) |
| Phan, Alexander Van | Chemistry (#12) |
| Phan, Alexander Van | Mathematics Extension 2 (#1) |
| Suriyanarayanan, Shravan | Music 2 (#1) |
| Ye, Sariena | Chemistry (#1) |
| Ye, Sariena | English Advanced (#11) |
| Ye, Sariena | Mathematics Extension 1 (#9) |
| Ye, Sariena | Mathematics Extension 2 (#3) |
| Ye, Sariena | Physics (#1) |
| Zhang, Jessica | Latin Extension (#2) |