Top 10 HSC Course Ranks |
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| Place | Name | School |
| 1st | Sing Huey Ong Prof Sol Encel Award |
Australian International School Malaysia |
| 2nd | Cassie Xiyu Cal | North Sydney Girls HS |
| 3rd | Talon Woodward | Central Coast Grammar School |
| 4th | Gabrielle Elizabeth Cant | Penrith HS |
| 5th | Jessica O’Brien | Willoughby Girls HS |
| 6th | Jasmine Tanazefti | All Saints Catholic College, Liverpool |
| Equal 7th | Charlie Hope-Parsons | Northern Beaches, Freshwater |
| Equal 7th | Yindi Schiphof | Northern Beaches, Manly |
| Equal 7th | Gabrielle Rose Woodger | St Marys Senior HS |
| Equal 10th | Phoebe Britten | Central Coast Grammar School |
| Equal 10th | Sophie Grant | Roseville College |
2022 High Distinction Personal Interest Projects |
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| Jamila Escobar
Dr Peg White Award |
Clancy Catholic College | The Space In Between |
| Grace Ryan | Port Hacking HS | That’s Not Very Ladylike! |
| Madeline Hagley | Willoughby Girls HS | Nasty Women: Western cultural narratives continue to stigmatise, mock and trivialise women’s anger, undermining their power and space in public discourse. |
| Stella Coppola | Clancy Catholic College | Single and Under Construction: An investigation into the socio-cultural construction of singleness. |
| Rhiannon Day | Willoughby Girls HS | Unkempt Women of Politics |
| Sameera Khan | Clancy Catholic College | Heroines don’t dream of heroes |
| Liam Hickey | Clancy Catholic College | If he can see it will he be it |
| Sophia Devine | Merewether HS | The Man-Made World |
| Eva Nyman | Merewether HS | Consumer Occulture |
| Juliette Allen | Riverside Girls HS | TikTok… Times Up for Internalised Misogyny! |
| Sophie Viol | Roseville College | “Where did you hear that, honey?” |
| Sri Kolluri | North Sydney Girls HS | Lights, Camera, Oppression |
2022 Distinction Personal Interest Projects |
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| Mikayla Foong | Willoughby Girls HS | The Perfect Distraction |
| Casey James | Willoughby Girls HS | ‘My apologies Mr Speaker’ |
| Tianne Dsouza | Clancy Catholic College | Femme Fatale or the Fatality of Femininity |
| Talon Woodward | Central Coast Grammar School | Make Australia Great Again |
| Vani Nahar | Merewether HS | White Damsels in Distress |
| Nicole Oghostin Sangar | Clancy Catholic College | Queering Conventions or Transgressive Tokenism: An investigation into LGBTIQA+ relationships in contemporary television dramas and sitcoms. |
| Ariel Lin | Elizabeth Macarthur HS | Unearthing the uterine family: the awakening of feminism in Taiwan |
| Paige Clifford | Engadine HS | ‘The Nu-Queer Family’ |
| Nicole Wang | Willoughby Girls HS | Return of Yellow Peril |
| Josie Carroll | Kildare Catholic College | Power structures and institutions are inherently shaped to dismiss young voices in order to maintain the status quo. |
| Sophia Aspera | Willoughby Girls HS | The Mainstream Pill |
| Ella Osborne | Merewether HS | The Paralympics: A Story of Disempowerment? |
In 2022, 12 High Distinctions and 12 Distinctions were awarded from 4,622 candidates.
The Dr Peg White Award is for the best PIP which focuses in intercultural communication.
The Prof Sol Encel Award is for First in the state in Society and Culture.
All Award recipients will have a certificate sent to their Schools Principals in recognition of their achievements. However, only Top 10 and High Distinction PIP recipients attend the SCA Awards Ceremony at State Library on 3 March 2023.
Top 10 HSC Ranks |
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| Place | Name | School |
| 1 | Sophie Loiselle Prof Sol Encel Award |
Merewether High School |
| 2 | Radhika Warrier | Elizabeth Macarthur HS |
| 3 | Yu Na Chung | Willoughby Girls HS |
| 4 | Lucinda Johnston | Lindfield Learning Village |
| 5 | Lalika Joya Blaser | Byron Bay HS |
| 5 | Olivia Kelly | All Saints’ Catholic School, Liverpool |
| 7 | Madison Tayla Fleming | Cherrybrook Technology HS |
| 8 | Riya Rao | Hurlstone Agricultural High School |
| 9 | Mia Giovannoni | St Scholastica’s College, Glebe Point |
| 10 | Tabasum Dehsabzi | Willoughby Girls HS |
2021 High Distinction Personal Interest Projects |
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| This is Australia. Speak English (Dr Peg White Award) | Isabella Fung | Hunter School of the Performing Arts |
| In business to change the world | Yu Na Chung | Willoughby Girls HS |
| A beginner’s guide on the word: ‘Feminist’ | Jade Yee-Smith | Willoughby Girls HS |
| The L Word | Grace Bu | Willoughby Girls HS |
| Born to buy | Rosalie Wilson | Trinity Catholic College Lismore |
| Blackfishing | Kushi Leggo | Willoughby Girls HS |
| R.I.P. Rest In Perpetuity | Latisha Lightowler | Clancy Catholic College |
| Queerbaiting is the hook that lures out the LGBTQI+ | Crystal Wan | Willoughby Girls HS |
| Feminism? In This Economy? | Sophie Loiselle | Merewether HS |
| The Real Housewives | Olivia Kelly | All Saints’ Catholic School |
| The Drover… and His Wife | Lucinda Johnston | Lindfield Learning Village |
2021 Distinction Personal Interest Projects |
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| My dress is not a yes | India-Rose de Caires | Willoughby Girls HS |
| Herstory or history | Mariam Malko | St. Narsai Assyrian Christian College |
| Teenage girls used by The Man | Keira Bingham | Willoughby Girls HS |
| Foreign at Home | Tabasum Dehsabzi | Willoughby Girls HS |
| “I’m Not Brave Enough for Politics” | Henry Tredwell | Cherrybrook Technology HS |
| Fake it till you make it | Oscar Priestman | Freshwater Senior Campus |
| Mindless masses: Everything wrong with the digital world | Katya Ivkovic | Willoughby Girls HS |
| F**k B**ches, Get Money’ | Emily Vuong | Cheltenham Girls HS |
| My Cultural-Life Crisis: The Zimbabwean’s Journey into the Feminist World | Maita Mtandabari | Engadine HS |
| Double Disempowerment | Katelyn Kokokios | Clancy Catholic College |
| Once Upon a Time…In Hollywood | Kristen Farrugia | Emmaus Catholic College |
| Knight In Not So Shining Armour | Marco Cordi | Clancy Catholic College |
| Not Cool Bro! | Emily Anstice | Central Coast Grammar |
| Delighting Your Imagination. Stripping Me of My Identity | Alanah Maroun | Catherine McAuley Westmead |
| Who am I? Where do I belong? | Akari Hiramatsu Mena Barreto | Mercy Catholic College |
Top 10 HSC Ranks |
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| Place | Name | School |
| 1 | Hugh Service | Hunters Hill High School |
| 2 | Ginger Maree Kaye Arena | Northern Beaches Secondary College Mackellar Girls Campus |
| 3 | Claudia Blane | Mercy Catholic College |
| 4 | Katelyn Williams | Central Coast Grammar School |
| 5 | Heidi Finlayson | Willoughby Girls High School |
| 5 | Mia Thom | Byron Bay High School |
| 7 | Isabella Sophia Baker | Northern Beaches Secondary College Mackellar Girls Campus |
| 8 | Flynn Broom | Patrician Brothers’ College Blacktown |
| 9 | Stephanie Lee | Hornsby Girls High School |
| 10 | Emma Young | Belmont High School |
High Distinction Personal Interest Projects |
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| The making of the other (Peg White Award) | Jessica Beutum | Emanuel School |
| Racism and Representation through the Pigeonhole | Flynn Poelmann | Barrenjoey High School |
| Sign of the times | Michelle Foerderer | Willoughby Girls High School |
| And they’re still painting priviledge | Simone Yaco | St Narsai Assyrian Christian College |
| Saving or Serving- Voluntourism | Madison Wilson | Willoughby Girls High School |
| Big data meets big brother | Sophie Ridley | Willoughby Girls High School |
| Change the system not the climate | Louis Valente | Freshwater Senior Campus |
| In money we trust | Kyoko Ichida-Griffin | Macarthur Anglican School Cobbitty |
| News Media: The Guardian of Democracy the Elite. | Harriette Burke | Freshwater Senior Campus |
| Girls behind the games | Jasleen Singh | Macarthur Girls High School |
| Onnara She – Gendered language in Japan | Molly Robinson | Jindabyne Central School |
| A fair go in a country on fire | Oscar Dow | Blackwattle Bay Campus |
Distinction Personal Interest Projects |
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| Beyond the asian mystique | Stephany Lu | Willoughby Girls High School |
| All the news that’s fit to print | Heidi Finlayson | Willoughby Girls High School |
| You can’t say that | Mandy-Lee Taitz | Moriah College |
| Man of the house | Sasha Evans Rorris | Blackwattle Bay Campus |
| Out of Sight. Out of Mind- The Austalia Homeless crisis | Allegra Nash | Willoughby Girls High School |
| Ignorance is Bliss’ | Bianca Dowd | Bulli High School |
| Born on the Wrong Side of the 38th Parallel | Alice Morgan | Ryde Secondary College |
| Voluntourism | Lucy Matthews | Willoughby Girls High School |
| This raunch has no dressing | Savannah Kopsias | Willoughby Girls High School |
| Political Tribalism – Us Them | Hugh Service | Hunters Hill High School |
| Heels on a glass ceiling | Samantha Naiman | Moriah College |
| There is a fine line between liberation and titillation | Lucinda Devereaux | Willoughby Girls High School |
| Once upon a time in Bollywood | Shanelle Anjaiya | Clancy Catholic College |
| Decolonising the Patriarchy | Mia Thom | Byron Bay High School |
| Pride and Prejudice | Kayla Christie | Freshwater Senior Campus |
| Easy, Breezy, Beautiful, Covergirl. | Stephanie Bosmans | Clancy Catholic College |
