Australian Mathematics Competition 2023

At the end of Term Three, a number of passionate mathematics students, in Years 7 to 12 participated in the Australian Mathematics Competition. Students from Somerset College achieved excellent results and those students whose achievements were outstanding were rewarded with Certificates of Credit, Distinction, High Distinction and a Prize.

In total, 29 students were awarded Distinction certificates and 41 students were awarded Credit certificates.  8 students were awarded High Distinction certificates - three of these achieved in the 100-percentile rank.

Oscar Credland-Ballantyne (Year 8) achieved the award for Best in School and was awarded a Prize. A prize is awarded generally to no more than one student for every 300 students within their year group.

The names of the students appear below.

Prize Award

Oscar Credland-Ballantyne (Year 8, 100th percentile rank)

High Distinction Award

Ethan Hu (Year 7, 100th percentile rank)

Ruhara  Mapabandara (Year 8, 100th percentile rank)

Arjun Rai (Year 7, 98th percentile rank)

Roger Hua (Year 8, 95th percentile rank)

Tony Xia (Year 9, 95th percentile rank)

Jason Wang (Year 10, 98th percentile rank)

Gene Wu (Year 11, 95th percentile rank)

Distinction Award

Year 7: Inca Burdett, Elijah Hadikusmo, Paris Liu, Omar Saro, Angela Sun, Wendy Yang

Year 8: Amy Cao, Malcolm Chan, Patrick Deacon, Max Hudson, Daniel Kim, Annika Lim, Emma Penhall, Wilson Slattery, Riko Tateno, Michael Zeng

Year 9: Dylan Aspinall, Harry Georgeson, Olivia Tao, Nicole Yuan

Year 10:  Ishaan Baswal, Cameron Bryan, Raphael Chou, Jackson Dong, Tarun Mutalithas, Advait Naik,
Emma Warwick

Year 11: Natalie Mai

Year 12: Aditya Naik

Credit Award

Year 7: Rinzenn Bansal, Isabel Bantick,  Cordelia Buck,  Lucas Deffenti, Angus Fraser, Aurell Gupta, Harry Hempling, Fenix Huang, Harrison Kerr, Elisabeth Staelen, Xinyi Wei, Evie Wilson

Year 8: Ellie Davies, Hugo Derksema, Patrick Geng, Kaiser Goetz, Ethan Huang, Grace Pan, Jenson Turner, Mia Woodthorpe

Year 9: Jade Lee, Maddi McLaughlin, Abhiraj Sarmah, Trishi Shivakumar, Kenshin Tateno, Anna Zeng

Year 10:  Carter Dennings, Jack Hodge, Daaine Hwang, Carlito Lamont, Jenna Lee, Ryan Longfield, Ryan Palmer, Declan Partridge, Aleeza Tariq, River Teixeira, Eason Wang, Jolina Zhang

Year 11: Lael Jeon, Xavier Ryan, Stephen Yu

Proficiency Award

Year 7: Sabine Booth, Sam Jones, Daniel Klaassen, Zac Marshall, Lucy Pluss, Jack Pluss

Year 8: Ella Cao, Anneliesa Martinese, Alvina Shen

Year 10: William Marks

Year 11: Jaden Lee

Participation Award

Year 8: Jack Walker

Year 10: Amelia Cotton, Michael Klaassen

Year 12: Yathish Soni

I would like to recognise the participation of students from Somerset College and congratulate them on their achievements.