Enter high flier

By Shaun Inguanzo
NOBLE PARK and Springvale state schools are touting this year’s Victorian Certificate of Education results as their best yet.
Springvale Secondary College and Noble Park Secondary College both reported students with Equivalent National Tertiary Entrance Rank (ENTER) scores of more than 99, placing those students within the top 1 per cent in the state.
Noble Park Secondary College student Boris Milivojevic received an ENTER score of 99.2.
The excited 18-year-old told the Star he could now pursue his dream of becoming a dentist.
“It feels great,” he said
“I was hoping to get a score like that but I was only expecting to get somewhere around 95 or so.
“I studied English, maths methods, specialist maths, physics, chemistry and information systems.”
Boris said his year was not stressful because he had studied proactively and did not leave his work to the last minute.
“It’s not really doing a lot of study, it’s more the method of study,” he said.
“Try and have fun, too – I know that’s hard to imagine but if you try and somehow have fun then it makes studying a lot easier.”
Noble Park Secondary School principal Andy Stevenson said the latest batch of year 12 students had been the college’s most successful.
“We are very pleased,” he said.
“The students this year were a particularly conscientious group.
“We had a number of really high fliers.”
Noble Park Secondary College careers counsellor Tony Oldjohn said the results from the school’s 95 year 12 students were outstanding.
“We had six students with ENTERs of 93 and above,” he said.
“There were 14 with ENTERs of 80 and above and that is a lot better than in the past.
“It has also been quite a while since we had and ENTER such as 99.2.”
Springvale Secondary College principal Mark Kosach said his school had its best VCE results yet, including ‘a couple of 99s’.
“We had some excellent results, with over 18 per cent of students scoring 90 or above,” he said.
“And we had 32 per cent of our students above the ENTER score of 80.”
Mr Kosach said the results were a significant improvement on previous years.