Excitement and nerves as students celebrate As, Bs and Cspublished at 09:56 British Summer Time

09:56 BST

Daniel Logan
Reporting from Portadown

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Lara
Lopes says she couldn’t rest till 06:00 this morning because she was “really, really
nervous”.

Lopes achieved all Bs – with one in Portuguese – and a C in Maths.

“I’m
really not good at maths so I was delighted,” she says: “I thought I’d
get a D.”

She says she hopes to go on to study law or politics at university in the future.

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Meanwhile, Georgina says she barely slept as her nerves were so high.

She says she
got As, Bs and Cs in her results. “I done
really well, I done better than expected,” she says.

Georgina – who has aspirations of becoming a nurse would like to study health and social care – says it
is “heart-breaking” to leave the school and “scary because
you’re going into something bigger”.

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Wiktoria is also happy with her results.

“I’ve been so nervous but I mean I wasn’t over confident or anything but I knew I’d do ok,” she says. “I done really well, I am actually so happy with my results.”

She’s planning to study science and hopes of getting a job in the pharmaceutical
industry.