Kearsney tops IEB results

KEARSNEY College has achieved another set of extraordinary marks, making the institution the top independent boys’ school in South Africa for the second successive year. This comes after the release of the IEB National Senior Certificate examination results last week.

A quarter of the 129 Kearsney boys who wrote achieved four or more distinctions with an impressive 299 distinctions between them. The school has six boys in SA’s top 136 candidates.

Highlighting its consistent successes in maths and science excellence, 44 percent of the boys who wrote mathematics achieved distinctions and 25 per cent attained distinctions in advanced programme mathematics. Forty-two per cent achieved distinctions in physical sciences, 63 per cent in engineering graphics and design (EGD) and 50 per cent in music.

Three Kearsney boys, Daniel Kolev, Edwin Bunge and Samuel Hansen, were in the top five per cent in SA for six or more subjects. Three others, Greg Royston, David Clarke and Brits van Zyl, were in the top five per cent in SA for five subjects.

Kolev achieved 10 distinctions in accounting (93%), Afrikaans (90%), English (86%), German second additional language (93%), life orientation (90%), mathematics (98%), maths paper 3 (89%), music (92%), physical sciences (98%), advanced programme mathematics (85%), while Bunge, Hansen and Royston each received nine distinctions. Seven boys, David Clarke, Brits van Zyl, Joshua Bean, Wesley Green, Wakithi Mabaso, Thomas Hudson and Brett Reinhart each received eight distinctions and six boys, Vaughn Pears, Zaid Vawda, Robert McGrath, Jarred Hayes-Hill, Damon Andrews and Adam Bradshaw each received seven distinctions.

Headmaster Elwyn van den Aardweg said he was delighted with the results.

“Academics are Kearsney’s number one priority and Kearsney boys are immersed in an academically rigorous environment from day one,” said Aardweg.