Hurstville achieves excellent results in the International Competitions & Assessments for Schools

The International Competitions and Assessments for Schools (ICAS) Science assessed students' skills in the key scientific areas of:

• Interpreting data, including observing, measuring and interpreting diagrams, tables and graphs
• Applying data, including inferring, predicting and concluding
• Higher order skills, including investigating, reasoning and problem solving

The papers covered content on:

• Earth and Beyond (incorporating the Earth Sciences and Astronomy).
• Energy and Change (incorporating Physics).
• Life and Living (incorporating Biology and Ecology).
• Natural and Processed Materials (incorporating Chemistry).

The following boys achieved a credit in their respective year groups:

Andrew Djamaan          Tane Holtz              Yinhao Xu                 Daniel Ko

Ben Mich                       Zain Khan               Eddison Zhao           Alex Zhu

Myron Zhuo                   Haseeb Arif             Kartikay Chopra       Jimmy Huynh

Cheng Ma                      Raunak Sitoula       Muslim Zeiour           Leon Zheng

Mohammed Mansour and Issa Chokr both received a distinction, coming in the top 10% and 4% respectively out of NSW and ACT students involved.

For further information see the ICAS website link About ICAS