HSC results 2024 LIVE updates: NSW year 12 students receive ...

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Atchaya Baskar said she was “filled with so many emotions, and a sense of pride and fulfilment” as she opened her results this morning in her home town of Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu, India.

Alongside her mother and best friend, the Xavier College student saw that she had received two band 6s – in legal studies and studies of religion. She had already received a band 6 last year in Tamil continuers, which she did as an accelerated course in Year 11.

Atchaya Baskar was thrilled with her HSC results.

When she got her results she woke up her grandparents and dad to tell them the good news, saying they were her “biggest inspirations”.

“I couldn’t think about anything else but to thank God. I called my dad as soon as I read out my results to my mum, because my dad is the backbone to my success.”

Here’s a funny, if not entirely unexpected, aspect of the HSC results morning: despite the NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) sending out HSC results before 6am, many students haven’t yet woken up to look at them.

We’ve been speaking to a few parents eager to know what their children got, but who have been forced to sit and wait for them to wake up.

And after 13 years of early morning starts, can you really blame them for a sleep in on a day like today?

Halle Masters, from Ravenswood, was thrilled when she opened up her results this morning.

“It was very surreal, and very nerve-wracking,” she said just after opening her results in front of her family. “It’s two years of hard work, all in numbers.”

She said the results were what she was expecting, and was particularly proud of her work in English.

“I had a really lovely teacher, Elise Dempster, who I grew really close with, and she helped me with everything and made English really enjoyable.”

What was the first thing she did after getting her results? Head to the ATAR calculator.

“If I got what it’s telling me, I’d be over the moon,” she said.

Lily Thompson was at her Panania home with her parents and her twin sister, Kallie, as she opened her results this morning.

With the Herald invited in to watch her receive them, just before 6am, Lily got out her laptop on the kitchen bench and logged on to view the results.

As she read the screen of numbers and results her family gathered around her.

“Oh, OK,” she said as she looked over her results.

Her mother, Kath, replied: “Is that OK good?”

“Yeah!” Lily said.

She had strong results in her most difficult subjects— a band four for chemistry, a band four for physics, band 5 for design and tech, band 5 for advanced mathematics and an E3 for science extension.

“I am happy,” she said.

“Because I’ve gotten into early entries, I don’t need the ATAR for going to university. It is more for myself, and because I’ve tried at school for years, I’ve been trying hard to do well.”

Shore student Nathanael Robertson came first in drama this year after scoring a perfect 100, but this morning he woke up to find he had also received two band 6s and two E4s in English advanced, physics, mathematics extension 1 and 2.

“The biggest thing was that I did what I loved,” said Robertson on his mix of courses. “I was passionate about all my subjects. I was motivated to study because I was interested in what I was studying.”

Nathanael Roberson at the First in Course event on Tuesday.Credit: James Brickwood

Robertson said that he thought it was important to balance his studies with subjects he was excited about, and said his drama course offered a reprieve from the hardcore study of maths and physics.

“My fondest memories of the year were in that class, in the group performance, mucking around late night ... it was almost a break, it really was a joy.”

In his top-of-the-state drama performances, Robertson did a group piece on medieval jesters which questioned “the privilege of speaking truth out of comedy” and a solo monologue from Nikolai Gogol’s Diary of a Madman.

Charlotte Eccleston is celebrating her results this morning – although, where she is, it’s the afternoon.

“I’m here on a trip,” she told the Herald from a carpark in Kansas, USA. “I accelerated in a few courses last year so it was definitely a very different experience receiving them at 12.30pm rather than 6am like last year.”

Charlotte Eccleston in Kansas.

“I was literally sitting in the car park of Target in Kansas City when I got the text! I look over to mum and I say ‘Oh, I think my results just came out!’”

“I’m overall fairly happy but I’m particularly excited about my band 6 in English as I needed at least a band 5 for primary school teaching, and was concerned at the start of year 12 that I wouldn’t be able to get that.”

Paul Martin is the chief executive of NESA, the body that administers the HSC exams. This is what he says to people receiving their results this morning:

While today is everyone’s day, yesterday, we celebrated the students who ranked first in every course.

Grace Costigan, who came first in English extension 2, shared a selection of her major work with us, while Anubhav Ammangi explained how he almost didn’t do chemistry, one of three subjects he has now topped in the HSC.

Anubhav Ammangi at the First in Course event yesterday.Credit: James Brickwood

If that isn’t enough, Anubhav has received a perfect score at the Oxford University Computing Challenge, a prize in the French-Australian Regional Informatics Olympiad and was selected to represent the nation at the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair in Texas last year.

Oh, and he can knock off a Rubik’s cube in 9.6 seconds.

Read the full story here.