The 2011 VN Dux.

[luken93]

so why'd Thor get to do it when people like the Lu's and brightsky can't?

[werdna]

LOL tell us more about this Thor Taylor.. Oh and I just realised brightsky is doing a 3&4 subject.. epic.

[onur369]

http://www.thortaylor.com.au/ how old is he?

[ben_ess12]

http://www.thortaylor.com.au/ how old is he?

**mouth drops to ground

wow

[Greatness]

I think it says he's 17... Wow speechless.

'Some of my other achievements are (in inverse chronological order): Graduating high school in the top 0.1% of the state Publishing a set of worked solutions with Cambridge University Press at age 16; Receiving the "Prize for Academic Excellence" in my first year university maths course (at age 15, while in Year 11); Playing for Australia in the World Junior Chess Championships at age 8, the youngest competitor there.'

[onur369]

This ridiculously smart kid was in uni at the age of 17, wtf ?

[Greatness]

he says he was age 15 at uni whilst doing yr 11.

[Russ]

This ridiculously smart kid was in uni at the age of 17, wtf ?

It's actually not that uncommon

[pi]

Is he in some sort of Genius program? Surely he's not just cruising through year 10 this year haha

I know schools where students can do 3/4 subjects from Year 10; at Balwyn High School, although I don't go there, if you're in the "accelerated" program/group, they allow students to take 3/4 subjects from Year 10 - in the hope of maximising their students' results.

I think the Uni High Accelerated program too (which I was in yr 7 and ! We also could do 3 1+2s (Latin, GMA/GMS, bio/Chem).

(from what I remember of their curriculum before going to MHS)

[werdna]

Damn......

Anyone know how he went VCE-wise?

Also found this:

http://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/sciencecommunication/category/thor-taylor/

[EvangelionZeta]

so why'd Thor get to do it when people like the Lu's and brightsky can't?

Something about Thor getting to be put into his own special class in year 7/8 - he's a special case in MGS history, and I have suspicions it was related to parents.

Still, Spesh at the age of 13, lol.

Anyone know how he went VCE-wise?

99.90 (I was there when he opened it!).  He got 43 in Latin, 39 in French and 43 in English in year 12, 5.5 in Uni Maths+Uni Physics in year 11, 47 in Physics and 46 in Methods in year 10 (or something close to that) and 44 in Spesh in year 9. 

[werdna]

 

[pi]

+1

Anyone know how he went VCE-wise?

99.90 (I was there when he opened it!).  He got 43 in Latin, 39 in French and 43 in English in year 12, 5.5 in Uni Maths+Uni Physics in year 11, 47 in Physics and 46 in Methods in year 10 (or something close to that) and 44 in Spesh in year 9.  

WTF? HE did spesh before methods? (why?)

[werdna]

And how?!

I have just suddenly felt a rush of demotivation and a lacking of confidence knowing exactly what the competition is like out in the rest of the state. 

[EvangelionZeta]

^^I actually have no idea why - always been one of those strange mysteries of life...