ATAR scores have been released as SA students react on social media
Future study and the next years of their lives are on the minds of SA’s 2022 school leavers as they received their ATARs, and now they’re reacting to their scores on social media.
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Shock, surprise and jubilation are emotions on display as recent school leavers shared their reactions when they logged on to the SACE website to receive their ATAR results.
Social media trends where students share their reactions have popped up on social media, much to the entertainment and catharsis of their peers.
See the best reactions as students receive their results.
Nina on TikTok reacted to her ATAR result as music swelled in the video.
No words were needed to show her shocked reaction.
“So stoked,” she wrote in the video’s caption.
Student Mikayla had to reassure herself to stop nerves overwhelming the school leaver as she looked at her results.
Upon seeing her result, Mikayla was so close to achieving the coveted 90 ATAR score.
“That’s so annoying,” she said
However she was pleased nevertheless and achieved her desired score with bonus points added.
“But I did well,” Mikayla said as she sighed with relief.
This student was overcome with emotion as she received her results.
The school leaver broke down in tears, overcome with disappointment.
“SACE did me dirty,” the video caption read.
Commenters on the video sympathised with her reaction.
“SACE did so many people dirty,” TikTok user Natarsga said.
Recent school leaver Nila was sitting at the table with her whole family to view her results.
Her shocked reaction showed that she received a much higher score than Nila was expecting as her family immediately congratulated her on the achievement.
“I knew that it’d be more than 90,” Nila’s mother said.
“I’m crying now.”
Another student, Jorja and her friend Amber left viewers waiting as they went through their individual results before revealing the final ATAR score.
“I’m so proud of you,” Jorja said to Amber, upon receiving her result.
Ellie asked her family to predict her ATAR before receiving her results.
Her family guessed that Ellie would achieve a score of about 80.
As it turned out, they were pretty spot on.
More than 14,000 students accessed their SACE results on Monday with six students achieving near-perfect scores.
A total of 14,571 school-leavers have achieved their SACE – or, almost 99 per cent of year 12s.
While a record 27,095 students completed a year 12 subject in 2022, of these, 806 students were of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) descent, representing a 16.3 per cent increase for these students.
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