MACKILLOP Senior College English students have been regarded among the state's very best following an unprecedented collection of exceptional HSC results.
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Brooke Genders, Ebanie Martin, Sarah Morris and Jacqueline Johns outperformed almost 32,000 Standard English students this year to place in state's top 100.
The girls each secured an incredibly rare Band 6 (a result over 90) for HSC Standard English - the NSW Board of Studies only gave out 90 Band 6s in 2014.
The girls' efforts were matched in the Extension English courses with almost 100 per cent of Extension students scoring over 90.
Achieving another rare HSC English score, MacKillop Senior College student Vicki-Anh Winfield produced an amazing 49/50 in Extension 2 English. Vicki-Anh wrote a 5000-word short story entitled A Polyethylene Graveyard for her HSC major work.
Vicki's classmate Elijah Abraham also excelled with a 47/50 for his HSC Extension 2 English major work - a 6000-word essay on postmodern nihilism in Seinfeld.
In the pair's Extension 1 course, most students achieved top bands and scored over 90 in the HSC exam. Vicki-Anh topped this exam too with a 48/50, closely followed by her classmates Sheridan Duck, Daniel Magnussen, Sophie Stark, Gabrielle Scullin and Elijah.
In the Advanced English course, almost every MacKillop Senior College student scored above 80 and a number of students boasted the rare Band 6s to place the school well above the state average.
MacKillop Senior College English teacher Clare Hayes said a lot of hard work had gone into producing such astounding English results.
Dux of the school is Rory Thompson with an ATAR of 98.2.