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While many Year 12 students around the country have been dreading the arrival of today, for one local university student it couldn’t come soon enough.

As school leavers across the country fret about what single mark they will be given to sum up the entirety of their 13 years of schooling, Daniel Potts is in heaven.

With a bumper schedule of tutorials and lectures today, 3rd year law student Potts has had a veritable smorgasbord of opportunities to bring up his ATAR in random conversations.

The young man who graduated from Betoota’s prestigious Whooton School for Boys, and is now studying down at UTS in the harbour city of Sydney, did very well in his Year 12 exams and is certainly not afraid to let anyone know about it.

In the years since he finished up at Whooton, dropped out of a commerce degree and took a European gap year sponsored by his parents, Potts has raised his ATAR in conversation more times than the country’s changed Prime Ministers in recent years.

“Look, I don’t wanna brag, but I did score in the very highest percentile of my cohort,” said the young man who seemingly thinks that, that is all anyone would ever want to aspire to in life.

“So I obnoxiously drop it whenever I am talking to someone, just to let them know what kind of ilk I am from,” Potts explained.

We spoke to one of Potts’s classmates, Brittney Williams.

Williams, who didn’t get the ATAR she was expecting, gained entry to UTS using the UTS Insearch alternative entry program. She told us about how painful Potts was this morning, “It’s almost like he thinks people actually care what ATAR he got?” she laughed.

“Solving a problem in our group he actually brought up that it was ATAR day and started asking people what they got. Gee whizz. We are all sitting in the same class as him right now, who cares what mark anyone got,” she said.

“Besides, he just looks pathetic going on about it like that. Tell us a funny story about someone at school who got drunk on a school excursion and threw up on a teacher if you wanna go on about school.”

At the time of press, it is believed that young Potts had gone on to tell nearly 10 more people about what he scored in his year 12 exams.

More to come.