School gets its best result
Grammar cohort tops the class
A GOOD culture of working hard and never giving up means a Toowoomba school is celebrating its best Year 12 cohort yet.
Eleven students from Toowoomba Grammar School showed their hard work really paid off, all earning an OP 1.
Those students now have big plans for their futures, moving onto various careers from engineering to medicine.
Among the high-achieving group is Andrew Waite who wants to study engineering, Jack Brandon who will study advanced business, Josh Eiser who will study advanced finance and economics, Angus Wilson who hopes to study medicine and Lachlan Grigg who wants to be a physiotherapist.
While that does not top the school’s record of 14 OP 1 scores in 2011, overall the group was the best performing this year with a record QCS result.
Director of studies Dr Alison Young said it was not often that the school achieved a double-digit result.
“It has been a very intense year. It is a massive workload as well as the QCS test which happens in September,” she said.
“This cohort got the best results we have ever had in QCS in terms of the percentage of boys getting As or Bs.”
This year 71.8 per cent of students got the high mark. Out of 140 OP-eligible students 98% got a 1-15 and more than 100 students got a score between 1-10.
“It was a really good culture of working hard and never giving up. Fighting to the very end for the best result,” Dr Young said.