The wait is over for students at Queen Elizabeth Boys’ School in Barnet after they ripped over their exam results with a sigh of relief.

A-level students from the Queens Road, Barnet, school, were one of the first to get their results this morning.

Hemang Hirani, who lives in Manor Road, Harrow, achieved A* grades in geography and history and A’s in English literature and maths. He will now read geography and the London School of Economics.

He is deputy head boy of the school and has given time to both mentoring younger pupils and volunteering at a care home.

Reflecting on his time at QE and his teachers there, he said: “They treat you like you are young adults; whether it’s having special access as Sixth-Formers to the Library or studying for the EPQ, there is a lot of independence, which prepares you for university before you have even set foot there.”

Meanwhile Adam Hilsenrath, of Deacons Hill Road, Elstree, will read history at Oxford University this autumn having achieved A* grades in English, maths and politics and an A in history.

The former head boy said: “It was not only interesting but is also more like the kind of work we will be doing at university than my A-level work.”

Vinul Wimalaweera, of Pinner Park Gardens, Harrow, had planned to study engineering at university but his success at the national science Olympiad competitions helped him realise his true passions.

He will now read physics and astronomy at Durham Milan Kundra, of Hadley Road, New Barnet, earned straight A*s in his four subjects – biology, chemistry, german and maths – and has been offered the Imperial President’s Scholarship to study at Imperial College, London.

Robert Swan, of Lyndhurst Avenue, Harrow, earned A*s in chemistry, maths, further maths and physics and an A in biology. He will read natural science at Cambridge.