This report shows the 2011 top students in each HSC subject, along with their ranking as assigned by the NSW Education Standards Authority.
Rankings are calculated from student HSC marks in the subject, or, where this results in a tie, from the average of the students' examination and assessment marks.
Students must achieve a band 6 or band E4 result in the relevant subject to appear in this list.
The number of top achievers reported varies from 5 to 20, according to the number of candidates taking each subject.
| 101 | Business Studies | Kwok, Leonie Chi-Ying | 9 | Hornsby Girls High School | Hornsby |
| 102 | Business Studies | Gross, Lori | 10 | Masada College | St Ives |
| 103 | Business Studies | Heller, Monique | 10 | Masada College | St Ives |
| 104 | Business Studies | O'Grady, Robert Andrew | 10 | Hunter Valley Grammar School | Ashtonfield |
| 105 | Business Studies | Wiggins, Joshua | 13 | St Edwards Christian Brothers College | East Gosford |
| 106 | Business Studies | Boyle, Alana | 14 | Presbyterian Ladies College Sydney | Croydon |
| 107 | Business Studies | Down, Julia | 15 | St Ursulas College | Kingsgrove |
| 108 | Business Studies | Ghazzaoui, Esraa | 16 | Beverly Hills Girls High School | Beverly Hills |
| 109 | Business Studies | Hallab, James | 17 | St Pauls Catholic College | ? |
| 110 | Business Studies | Liu, Yuxuan (Steven) | 18 | Newington College | Stanmore |
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| 111 | Business Studies | Hutton, Jennifer | 19 | Presbyterian Ladies College Sydney | Croydon |
| 112 | Business Studies | Lawrence, Rebecca Louise | 20 | St George Girls High School | Kogarah |
| 113 | Chemistry | Li, Jessica Jia Yi | 1 | Abbotsleigh | Wahroonga |
| 114 | Chemistry | Syed, Faisal | 1 | Sydney Grammar School | Darlinghurst |
| 115 | Chemistry | Zhang, David | 3 | The Scots College | Bellevue Hill |
| 116 | Chemistry | Lee, Peter Joon | 4 | James Ruse Agricultural High School | Carlingford |
| 117 | Chemistry | Kim, Dennis Daehwan | 5 | Sydney Boys High School | Moore Park |
| 118 | Chemistry | Tran, Carmen My-Nhi | 6 | James Ruse Agricultural High School | Carlingford |
| 119 | Chemistry | Rezcallah, Charbel | 7 | Sydney Technical High School | Bexley |
| 120 | Chemistry | Harper, George | 8 | The Scots College | Bellevue Hill |
| 121 | Chemistry | Lee, Andrew | 9 | James Ruse Agricultural High School | Carlingford |
| 122 | Chemistry | Liu, Ziang Frank | 10 | James Ruse Agricultural High School | Carlingford |
| 123 | Chemistry | Chaukra, Shefali | 11 | James Ruse Agricultural High School | Carlingford |
| 124 | Chemistry | Lo-Cao, Edward Ao Yu | 12 | James Ruse Agricultural High School | Carlingford |
| 125 | Chemistry | Wu, Christine Jing | 12 | James Ruse Agricultural High School | Carlingford |
| 126 | Chemistry | Ly, Austin | 14 | Sydney Boys High School | Moore Park |
| 127 | Chemistry | Liang, Anthony | 15 | Baulkham Hills High School | Baulkham Hills |
| 128 | Chemistry | Wang, Jeffery | 16 | James Ruse Agricultural High School | Carlingford |
| 129 | Chemistry | Corrigan, Maggie Elaine | 17 | Baulkham Hills High School | Baulkham Hills |
| 130 | Chemistry | Bhat, Bhavana | 18 | Girraween High School | Girraween |
| 131 | Chemistry | Agnew, Michael | 19 | Nowra Christian School | Nowra |
| 132 | Chemistry | Wilkinson, Ian James | 20 | Baulkham Hills High School | Baulkham Hills |
| 133 | Chinese Background Speakers | Jiang, Wenhui | 1 | Canterbury Girls High School | Canterbury |
| 134 | Chinese Background Speakers | Liu, Jia Yue | 2 | Reddam House Bondi Campus | North Bondi |
| 135 | Chinese Background Speakers | Li, Xinyi | 3 | Secondary College of Languages Strathfield Girls Campus | Strathfield |
| 136 | Chinese Background Speakers | Xue, Peng | 4 | Reddam House Bondi Campus | North Bondi |
| 137 | Chinese Background Speakers | Zheng, Siyuan | 5 | Reddam House Bondi Campus | North Bondi |
| 138 | Chinese Background Speakers | Chen, Yingli | 6 | Willoughby Girls High School | Willoughby |
| 139 | Chinese Background Speakers | Liu, Han (Hannah) | 7 | Burwood Girls High School | Croydon |
| 140 | Chinese Background Speakers | Hu, Chao (Candice) | 8 | Burwood Girls High School | Croydon |
| 141 | Chinese Background Speakers | Tan, Haoran | 9 | Taylors College | Waterloo |
| 142 | Chinese Background Speakers | Chen, Wanyi | 10 | Strathfield Girls High School | Strathfield |
| 143 | Chinese Beginners | Shin, Joanne Jin Young | 1 | NSW School of Languages | Petersham |
| 144 | Chinese Beginners | Hur, Sooji | 2 | NSW School of Languages | Petersham |
| 145 | Chinese Beginners | Jose, Louisa | 3 | NSW School of Languages | Petersham |
| 146 | Chinese Beginners | Chow, Andrew Pak-Lam | 4 | NSW School of Languages | Petersham |
| 147 | Chinese Beginners | Heo, Sungbeom Steven | 5 | NSW School of Languages | Petersham |
| 148 | Chinese Continuers | Ly, Sharon | 1 | Beverly Hills Girls High School | Beverly Hills |
| 149 | Chinese Continuers | Sim, Amanda | 2 | Australian International School Singapore | Singapore |
| 150 | Chinese Continuers | Lertsumitkul, Lynn | 3 | NSW School of Languages | Petersham |