Most likely with racing hearts and sweaty palms, 71,415 high school students across NSW are able to access their HSC results today.

From 6am students were able to log on to hscresults.nsw.edu.au to find out how they went, or could receive results by SMS or over the telephone.

By 8am, the Board of Studies said there had been 51,224 registrations of students accessing their results online or by SMS.

By 9am it said there had been 61,421 registrations.