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More than 13,000 students from 530 schools and institutions across the state achieved one or more study scores of 40 or above in 106 VCE subjects offered this year.
To put that in perspective, that’s almost enough people to fill the stands of Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena.
You can search the honour roll by name, school, or subject for students who gave permission for their results to be published:
Study scores for a subject range from 0 to 50, with 30 being the mean. Achieving a score of 40 or above places a student in the top 9 per cent of the cohort.
A study score is distinct from an ATAR – a rank out of 99.95, which is the culmination of results across multiple subjects and includes other weightings.
Getting a score of 40 or above in one subject is a stellar achievement, but more than 4500 students achieved that result in more than one discipline.
This year, 8714 students gained one 40+ score, 2636 received two, 1191 obtained three, 560 earned four and 96 achieved five.
One student from Auburn High School achieved a 40+ score in six subjects this year.
The highest possible study score is 50, which 578 students obtained in at least one subject this year.
Forty students achieved two perfect scores, four students gained three perfect scores and one student (from Ruyton Girls’ School) received four perfect scores in subjects undertaken this year.
For some of this year 12 cohort, this isn’t the first time their names appear in the honour roll. If they achieved a 40+ score in any final-year subjects in year 10 or 11, they would have appeared in that year’s list.
There are 2672 students who achieved a 40+ score this year, who also obtained at least one 40+ score last year, and another 27 who gained a 40+ score all the way back in 2023.
The most popular subjects often yield more than 1000 high-achieving students.
In English, 3144 students achieved a score of 40 or more. In General Mathematics there were 2310, while there were 1235 in Mathematical Methods, 1174 in Psychology and 1116 in Business Management.
There are also subjects that are undertaken by a small number of students, for which there may only be a handful of 40-plus scores. In second language subjects such as Bengali, Polish, Russian and Swedish, one student achieved a score of 40 or more.
But it’s worth keeping in mind that not all students who achieved a score of 40 or above show up in the honour roll. At the start of the year, about 10 per cent of those enrolled in VCE subjects opt out of allowing their details to be published.
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On Saturday morning, we will publish a second VCE interactive on The Age website that focuses on overall school results. This interactive will let you view key data about each school’s Year 12 cohort this year, its median VCE study score and the percentage of its study scores that were 40 or above.
Finally, when the Victorian Tertiary Admissions Council releases its first-round tertiary offers at 10am on Tuesday, December 23, we will publish an interactive that allows offers to be searched by name. A second interactive table on the Campus section of our website will also be updated to include the minimum selection ranks for courses in 2026.
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