Yesterday, nearly 120 of the state’s brightest students received first-in-course awards for topping one or more subjects this year.
The 126 awards went to 118 students.
We spoke to the first student to top both chemistry and physics in 17 years, Sariena Ye, who described receiving both awards as “a bit surreal”.
Sariena Ye topped the state in physics and chemistry in this year’s HSC.Credit:Louise Kennerley
Read more about this year’s star students – including the girl who topped both English extension 1 and Latin extension 1 and the English whiz who created a 6000-word fictionalised history of lobotomies in the US – here.
