Students across New South Wales have this morning uncovered the results they’ve been working towards all year.
This morning, at 9am, ATARs were released in NSW, changing the lives of young Aussies with the click of a button.
One look at TikTok, though, shows that results have been mixed, with the app already flooded with reaction videos – some with tears of excitement, and others showing that expectations hadn’t quite been met.
Graduate Elle Johnson – who owns a tutoring company, and has been sharing her study hacks to social media over the course of the year – displayed nothing but excitement in her reaction video.
With screams from family in the background, Elle revealed that she achieved an ATAR of 96.85.
“Is that mine, there?” she asked, in disbelief.
“Oh my god!”
Abby McNicol, who scored 60.80, also shared her excitement to her 12,000 followers.
“Oh my god, yes! That’s what I wanted!” she said.
But, it wasn’t good news for everyone. One graduate took to TikTok to share what she said was an “underwhelming” result.
“It’s not what I wanted,” she said in the video.
“It’s fine, I don’t need it. But this is still okay.”
Another shared a video saying she had been “crying all morning” at how bad her ATAR was.
Regardless, encouraging comments have flooded in on every video, sharing congratulations and commending the students on their efforts.
“Be proud of yourself for finishing [because] that in itself is a massive achievement,” one said.
“OH MY GOD YES SO PROUD OF YOU WOOOO,” said another.
While the All-round Achievers list and the Distinguished Achievers lists won’t be released until later today, a number of schools around the state have already shared the achievements from individual students, including Rohan Usta from Cherrybrook Technology High School, and Ravenswood School for Girls’ Vice Captain Billie Fedden, who both scored Band 6s across the board. Just 1495 students across the state earned this achievement.
Yesterday, First in Course students were named.
Among the 139 students were five graduates from Catholic girls school Bethany College in Hurstville, who were awarded first in course in four subjects – Dance, Industrial Technology, Studies of Religion I and joint first in Design and Technology.
And, while the majority of the awarded students hailed from inner city or western Sydney schools – including Sydney Grammar School with seven – that doesn’t mean the rest of New South Wales went unrepresented.
Milly Priest from Orange High School ranked first in Community and Family Studies, Ella Sinclair from Blayney High School took first in Food Technology, and Bateson Pittman from Farrer Memorial Agricultural High School came out on top in the Primary Industries Examination.
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