Class of 2020 waking up to new score After a tumultuous final year hit hard by COVID-19, the class of 2020 - pioneers since their very first day at school - will wake to another first on Saturday. Education by Antonia O’Flaherty Premium Content Subscriber only More than 40,000 Queensland students will make history today as the first cohort to graduate with a Year 12 Certificate under the new senior school curriculum with thousands to receive the state's first ATARs. The Class of 2020 were the first full cohort of Prep, the first Year 7 students in high schools and the first Queenslanders to receive the Australian Tertiary Admission Rank, which Education Minister Grace Grace said made them "educational pioneers".