‘I never expected to do this well’: top performing NSW students celebrate high-flying Atars

Students across the state take to social media to share reactions to top marks while premier says results are ‘just a step on your journey’

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When Charlie Ashton and his mates plugged his HSC marks into an Atar calculator, he assumed it was broken. There was no way he’d scored a near-perfect 99.90.

But there’d been no mistake. “I was pretty surprised,” said the student from Sydney private school Shore.

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