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Statistics - School Certificate 1979-1988

Total Candidature by Subject

Subject	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988
English	73,113	73,594	73,188	74,492	76,345	79,846	81,810	87,486	89,929	87,250
Science	73,112	73,594	73,181	74,491	76,331	79,841	81,673	87,462	89,899	87,198
Mathematics	73,113	73,596	73,184	74,492	51,034	20,174
Maths - Advanced					8,317	19,835	26,464	28,281	29,723	30,342
Maths - Intermediate					11,805	27,770	38,856	41,657	42,311	40,255
Maths - General					5,187	11,953	16,488	17,542	17,885	16,621
Social Studies
Combined Social Studies	251	390	817	804	845	1,223	1,209	2,367	2,716	1,934
Geography	43,664	41,354	39,822	39,218	38,117	38,699	39,061	40,349	40,802	38,640
Geography (T)
History	36,575	37,549	38,281	37,849	39,390	41,587	43,020	43,890	44,459	42,722
Commerce	27,545	27,726	28,289	29,621	31,700	33,635	34,872	37,467	38,557	36,296
Art	16,230	16,663	17,007	17,942	18,763	19,618	20,328	22,289	24,183	22,867
Needlework
Textiles and Design	10,520	10,997	11,261	11,316	11,266	11,900	12,057	13,543	14,229	14,246
Home Science	17,760	17,615	17,697	18,504	18,803	19,568	20,041	21,384	21,642	19,183
Tech. Drawing	9,037	9,807	10,390	10,938	11,518	12,439	11,980	12,467	12,986	12,958
Metalwork
Woodwork
Technics I (T)	25,806	26,315	26,133	26,659	27,972	28,751	29,451	30,443	30,805	28,780
Technics II (T)	6,162	6,063	5,884	5,594	5,961	6,009	5,728	5,763	5,745	5,140
Farm Mechanics
Agriculture	5,161	5,217	5,271	5,949	6,500	6,855	7,364	7,781	8,070	7,248
Music (Board)	3,330	3,616	3,705	4,431	4,752	5,777	6,672	7,651	8,364	8,312
Music (AMEB)
Asian Social Studies	6,602	5,600	6,302	5,591	5,290	5,396	5,097	5,688	5,331	4,412
French	8,408	8,808	8,561	8,033	7,439	7,313	7,315	7,979	7,957	6,872
German	5,170	5,171	4,762	4,788	4,293	3,994	3,902	4,046	4,094	3,559
Latin	910	942	943	946	760	807	830	962	847	878
Latin A
Latin B
Greek (Classical)	68	46	42	41	46	37	35	32	34	27
Modern Greek		171	297	360	433	454	1,702	770	778	735
Arabic		84	71	108	112	113	171	163	222	219
Russian	21	21	24	6	7	17	10	18	14	9
Dutch	8		11	5	3		3	5	3	1
Hebrew	53	76	71	73	73	74	99	147	141	149
Italian	1,010	1,321	1,253	1,290	1,309	1,206	1,418	1,707	1,702	1,620
Indonesian	953	956	843	636	489	485	487	544	428	405
Spanish	46	33	61	40	63	68	91	127	156	163
Japanese	201	220	232	281	277	375	366	509	656	648
Chinese			12	36	34	63	108	145	158	211
Turkish			11	29	49	64	112	118	96	66
Croatian				17	25	33	45	49	76	65
Estonian					1			1
Hungarian				6	4	3	5	2	5	3
Lithuanian				1	3	1	4	2	5	1
Macedonian				7	16	18	61	45	71	80
Serbian				1	13	10	19	23	20	9
Slovenian				3	10	3	6	13	5	4
Ukrainian				3	4	3	1	3	2	5
Polish							8	19	19	20
Vietnamese							29	95	60	88
Maltese								1
Ceramics
Weaving
Art Metalwork
Graphic Arts
Bookcrafts
Sheep Husbandry	235	236	289	255	282	234	241	252	216	169
Social Science (T)	1,252	1,231	1,438	1,337	1,405	1,241	1,149	778	887	433
Tech Drawing (T)
Industrial Arts (T)	1,574	1,618	1,397	1,349	1,153	1,211	1,271	1,232	1,099	1,077
Australian Studies	172	195			73	89	90	92
Community Studies	48	37		2
Environmental Studies	28	12
Consumer Education	48			93
History/Geography	268	109		343	150	163	103	46	131
Studies in Society						198	281	834	873	1,158
Life and Career Studies							1,205	5,582	8,347	10,524
Computer Awareness							1,152	2,901	6,356	8,438
Health Education							1,977	6,646	9,824	10,147
Drama									778	2,177
Computing Studies										739
Visual Arts										524
Total candidates	73,113	74,027	73,187	* Figures not available	76,346	79,847	81,818	87,495	89,930	87,527