Updated December 18, 2025 — 1:20pm,first published December 18, 2025 — 12:00pm
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Brisbane students have been given access their ATAR results, after feeling a mixed bag of emotions while waiting on Thursday morning.
QTAC chief executive Chris Veraa said the results reflected the efforts of students, as well as the families and school communities that worked alongside them through their senior year.
“We hope this moment will be one where all Queensland graduates are able to look back on what they’ve achieved with pride.”
Brisbane Girls’ Grammar School student Olivia King said she was quietly confident about her ATAR results.Brisbane Girls’ Grammar School
Olivia King, 17, from Brisbane Girls Grammar School, said on Thursday morning she was feeling “quietly confident” about her ATAR results. She was also, of course, a bit nervous.
“I’ve been accepted to study a bachelor of international economics and management at Bocconi University in Milan,” she told this masthead.
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“I’m still deciding if I will travel overseas to take up this opportunity in Italy, or if I stay in Brisbane to study the University of Queensland’s bachelor of advanced finance and economics.
“I’ve also applied to many universities in America. I’m torn between studying abroad and being closer to home, but I will make a decision once all of the offers are out.
“I feel really grateful that I have these choices and university ahead of me. It’s amazing to think that 150 years ago, when Brisbane Girls Grammar School was founded, women were striving for the right to a tertiary education.”
Faris Al-Haji, 18, from Park Ridge State High School, was keeping his confidence up. He chose not to look at his exam results on December 17, preferring to keep the whole thing a surprise.
Park Ridge State High School student Faris Al-Haji.
Al-Haji admitted to feeling a little bit overwhelmed ahead of the results being released. “But it is what it is, you know, there’s nothing that can happen to the results now.”
He is hoping to get into a bachelor of nursing at Queensland University of Technology, which has guaranteed entry for students with an ATAR of 80.
“I do think I’ll be able to get into it. Right now, I’m just keeping my confidence up so I don’t have a little breakdown in the middle of the day. I think all will be well.”
Speaking to this masthead after midday, Al-Haji said his ATAR was enough to successfully qualify for his desired degree.
Tatiana Edelman, 17, from St Aidan’s Anglican Girls’ School said before getting her results that she was “feeling OK”.
“I think mostly what I was really most worried about was just how I did in all my subjects individually. For me, the number of my ATAR isn’t the most important thing because nothing that I want to do [needs] a super, super high [ATAR].”
St Aidan’s Anglican Girls’ School student Tatiana Edelman is feeling OK about her ATAR results.
Edelman is planning to take at least six months off to travel, and continue strengthening her French language skills. “After that, I’m hoping to do something with a bit of arts and a bit of sciences because I’m in a bit of a difficult situation where I’m really enjoying both,” she said.
“It’s a bit annoying because I feel like most people know like exactly, or they think they know exactly where they want to go, but I’m just enjoying too many things, which is a good problem to have.”
Edelman has spoken with university students at her swimming club, who reassured her that many people go into tertiary studies not knowing exactly what they want to do, or are very set on their plans but end up changing.
Having received her result, Edelman said she was “very happy”, and would now have to figure out what she is going to study.
St Aidan’s Anglican Girls’ School student Rasika Sudhahar admits she’s feeling pretty nervous for her ATAR results.
Rasika Sudhahar, 18, also from St Aidan’s, admitted she was feeling pretty nervous. She intends to study a maths and arts dual degree next year, which has an entry requirement of 92.
“My issue is that I like too many things, so it’s really difficult to narrow in on one. I changed my application again two weeks ago,” she said.
“I was so confused about what I wanted to do, but I just landed on trying a math degree and pairing it with an arts degree and, then after about six months or a year, seeing where I want to go from there.”
Results were released on the QTAC portal at midday.
Students received a raw ATAR, which can be treated differently by universities depending on adjustment factors, such as studying a language other than English or specialist maths subjects, living in a rural or remote location, and experiencing hardship.
QTAC said 37 students had received a top ranking of 99.95, from a total of 30,167 eligible students – just over half of all students who finished year 12 this year.
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