Over the moon or an anti-climax? HSC students react after getting their ATARS

After weeks of waiting and years of hard work, year 12 students in NSW are finally getting their HSC results and ATARS.

Whether it was the pay-off they were hoping for - or just a massive relief - some HSC students told 9News.com.au how they're feeling after learning their ATAR.

Katya Walker has just finished up at Toongabbie Christian College in Sydney's west and was meant to check her results on a video call with her parents. 

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When the results were released 10 minutes before she was expecting, her parents didn't pick up the call.

Though she was "pretty terrified" before checking, she did much better than she expected.

Then came the calls to her best friend and family.

"We're pretty happy with what we got," she said.

Katya has already accepted an early offer to study Psychology at Macquarie Uni.

"It's kind of like, dare say, almost like, kind of anti-climactic."

"It's this whole massive moment and then oh, it doesn't actually matter anymore."

Katya just got back from her schoolies trip and is planning her 18th birthday party tomorrow.

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Sophie Cox, who's just graduated from St George Christian School in Hurstville had the same nerve-wracking wait for results as everyone.

"I felt like sick to my stomach. I was so nervous, because you just never really know, like, what it's going to be like."

Though the subject results came out earlier, she waited to check her ATAR and marks together.

"I was actually really happy," she said.

"I did better than I thought. I feel like you could see the work that I put in being able to be seen in the marks."

She feels "really relieved." 

"Relief is the main thing."

Sophie is hoping to do Midwifery at UTS, and expects that her marks were good enough to get her over the line.

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Joshua Mitchell and Asher Camejo-Hart were joint duxes of Saint Andrews Cathedral School in Sydney's inner city.

"I've been so happy. I was quite pleasantly surprised," Asher told 9News.com.au.

He plans to go to Sydney University and study Psychology and Maths.

"So I was really happy to be able to, like, do my Dream Course, which is great."

He and his friends captured a video of the moment they received their marks.

Joshua Mitchell got top marks despite working through a disability which means he can't write with a pen and paper.

"I have dysgraphia, which means I'm unable to handwrite this whole year," he said.

He's battled other disabilities throughout his time at school, and needed to dictate his answers in his exams to a scribe.

"I had to make a lot of compromises. I had to get additional resources. I had to learn how to use a scribe like a writer, that I speak to in my exams for the first time in my life."

"So it was a lot of learning."

Joshua expects to get a place studying computer science at UNSW with a scholarship next year.

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