STUDENTS ‘OP’ TO IT AFTER LONG WAIT

IT has been an anxious wait for nearly 10,000 Gold Coast students who are set to receive their official Year 12 results today.

Of around 9700 Gold Coast graduates expected to get their results, Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority spokesman James Lamb said only about 3850 will get an OP ranking.

Worongary’s Luca Guirguis, 17, who attended Varsity College, dreams of becoming a doctor but is nervous waiting for his results to come through.

“I think everyone is quite nervous. Hopefully it’s what I need. It’s really difficult to get direct entry into medicine but there are other routes into it through other degrees as well,” he said. Results officially go live at 9am but large numbers of students were expected to be staying up past midnight last night in case the scores were released early, which has happened in past years.

Luca said he had been waiting anxiously to learn if all the hard work paid off.

He wants to become a surgeon eventually and hoped to be accepted into medicine at Griffith University after undertaking a heavily sciencebased Year 12 workload.

Queensland Education Minister Grace Grace wished students good luck and offered some advice to those disappointed with the outcome.

Postal results are due to start arriving in mailboxes on Monday.