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Thu 08 Aug 2006'Yes, 580, 10 more points than I need for that first choice' Kate Ferguson's Results Day Diary: Yesterday, Kate Ferguson, a student at Wesley College, Dublin, received her Leaving Cert results. This is her diary of a dramatic day.My car pulls up outside school. I get out. I pass a boy arriving in his car. I wave and I smile. He waves, but his face remains scarily blank. He looks terrified.