LIBERATING EDUCATION 089 ST PATRICK’S COLLEGE STRATHFIELD LUMEN 2024 Many courses had a percentage representation of students with a mark of 90% or above, i.e., Band 6 or E4, greater than that of the State. For example: • Business Studies: 20.00% of College candidates attained a Band 6 compared to 11.28% for the State • Economics: 43.75% compared to 13.04% • Industrial Technology: 33.33% compared to 7.56% • Information Processes & Technology: 20.00% compared to 6.72% • Italian Continuers: 33.33% compared to 26.34% • Mathematics Advanced: 37.87% compared to 22.31% • Modern History: 18.42% compared to 10.20% • PDHPE: 14.58% compared to 6.37% • Visual Arts: 44.44% of College candidates attained a Band 6 compared to 18.46% for the State Similarly, there were twenty-eight courses (80%) where the percentage representation of students in the two highest performance bands, representing a percentage mark equal to or above 80%, i.e., Bands 5/E3 and 6/E4, were greater than that of the State. For example, in courses with a candidature greater than or equal to 15: • Biology: 36.66% of College candidates performed in the two top bands compared to 31.82% for the State • Business Studies: 74.66% compared to 35.75% • Construction: 59.99% compared to 32.42% • Economics: 81.25% compared to 48.34% • English Standard: 30.00% compared to 13.12% • English Advanced: 86.73% compared to 67.12% • Industrial Technology: 62.95% compared to 23.57% • Mathematics Standard 2: 55.68% compared to 31.42% • Mathematics Advanced: 75.74% compared to 49.72% • Modern History: 52.63% compared to 34.86% • PD/Health/PE: 43.74% compared to 30.70% • Studies of Religion II: 70.58% compared to 45.98% • Visual Arts: 100% of College candidates performed in the two top bands compared to 65.44% for the State Bearing in mind that the College is an academically nonselective comprehensive boys’ school, the 2023 HSC results are excellent. St Patrick’s College is a school where ordinary boys achieve extraordinary things. Mr M Cutrupi Director of Curriculum James Bellamy Angus Reen
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