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Remove items from your saved list<\/a> to add more.<\/p>\n AAA<\/p>\n Forty-three students achieved a perfect ATAR of 99.95 last year and each high achiever boosted their end-of-school mark through top scores in the two toughest maths subjects.<\/p>\n All 43 students who topped the state in 2025 selected mathematical methods and specialist mathematics, both of which are scaled up due to their difficulty.<\/p>\n The third most common subject students completed to achieve top marks was chemistry \u2013 chosen by 37 students \u2013 followed by English, which is compulsory, and counted towards 24 perfect scores.<\/p>\n Victoria\u2019s 43 top performers were among 49,310 VCE students who received an ATAR last year and all have earned praise from Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre (VTAC) chief executive officer Teresa Tjia.<\/p>\n Related Article \u201cThe breadth of achievement of these students is reflected in the broad range of studies students have chosen across the VCE, including the 28 different studies undertaken by those achieving a 99.95 ATAR,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n VTAC calculates the ATAR, a percentile rank between 0 and 99.95, from up to six subjects.<\/p>\n Tjia said VTAC\u2019s scaling process meant students are not advantaged or disadvantaged by their subject choice.<\/p>\n \u201cMy advice to younger students who are thinking ahead to their VCE study plan is to choose subjects you\u2019re interested in and are good at,\u201d Tjia said.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is the best way to maximise your ATAR.\u201d<\/p>\n The most popular subject combination in 2025 \u2013 selected by 369 students \u2013 comprised English, biology, health and human development, general mathematics and psychology. In total, 24,291 unique combinations of VCE subjects were recorded.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Victorian students who achieved 99.95 favoured STEM subjects, including physics (18 students) and biology (13 students). However, language subjects also contributed to a high proportion of perfect scores.<\/p>\n Georgios Pirpiris was one of five boys at Melbourne Grammar School to achieve at ATAR of 99.95 in 2025.<\/p>\n Pirpiris studied units 3 and 4 of modern Greek, French, Latin, English, specialist mathematics, mathematical methods and chemistry over two years.<\/p>\n His perfect year 12 score earned him a spot on Monash University\u2019s medicine program, where he received a scholarship worth $32,000 over four years.<\/p>\n Pirpiris said VCE students preparing to sit exams next month should be confident their years of schooling will pay off.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s not just year 12 that they\u2019ve been at school, it\u2019s all the years beforehand that they\u2019ve been developing small skills,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cSo trust that the things you might not have thought were useful back then have taught you the skills to learn or the info you have now… and don\u2019t worry about one silly exam.\u201d<\/p>\n Of the 43 Victorian students who achieved perfect ATARs in 2025, 14 of them were female, including three students from Fintona Girls\u2019 School.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Haileybury College and Haileybury Girls College had five perfect ATARs, while Melbourne Girls Grammar, Ruyton Girls\u2019 School, Camberwell Grammar School, Balwyn High School and Mac.Robertson Girls\u2019 High School all had two.<\/p>\n Presbyterian Ladies\u2019 College, Caulfield Grammar School, Parkdale Secondary College, St Kevin\u2019s College, Mentone Grammar, Hume Anglican Grammar, Strathcona Girls Grammar, Brighton Grammar School, Beaconhills College, Tintern Grammar and Ivanhoe Girls\u2019 Grammar each celebrated one student with a perfect ATAR.<\/p>\n Related Article Elevate Education chief operating officer John Varvarigos said students wanting to do well in VCE should choose subjects they are genuinely interested in, as they\u2019ll be spending a lot of time thinking about the topic.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat not to do is to do something for scaling purposes or do something for the marks,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Elevate educators travel to hundreds of private and public schools around Victoria to run workshops with students that teach good study habits for VCE.<\/p>\n \u201cCapability follows repetition,\u201d Varvarigos said.<\/p>\n Varvarigos said students were also more likely to engage in a subject if they knew why they were studying it. So if maths wasn\u2019t necessarily their favourite subject, but it was a prerequisite for their chosen further study, they\u2019d be more likely to engage.<\/p>\n He said students who succeeded in VCE typically did two things.<\/p>\n \u201cThe number one thing that separates middle-performing students from top-performing students is the number of past papers that they complete before their assessments because it turns understanding into application,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd what typically happens in VCE is students are juggling a lot, and they don\u2019t allocate their time effectively. So time management is essential, and making sure they have a fixed methodology of how to apply themselves to study.\u201d<\/p>\n Language and performance examinations, including dance and theatre, will kick off the end-of-year exams for VCE students from October 5.<\/p>\n Start the day with a summary of the day\u2019s most important and interesting stories, analysis and insights. 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Five Melbourne Grammar School students received ATAR scores of 99.95. From left are\u00a0Nicholas Wang, Tahj Kumar, headmaster Philip Grutzner, Daniel Gao and Andison Zhang. The fifth student was Georgios Pirpiris.<\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2b542b89cc45f902f0874b447e67c29a4ff14f966882f853a5216d546147c25c.gif\")
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