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Seonag Mackinnon, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scotland's education correspondent, gives us her take on the big results day...

We don't ask much. We only ask young people on the most nerve-wracking day of their lives to date, to open their SQA envelopes live on radio while a nation listens.

On results day head teachers, parents, education authority press officers and the SQA tend to steer the media towards confident youngsters likely to have done very well and unlikely to break down in front of a microphone.

It can mean however that press coverage is dominated, arguably distorted, by youngsters with straight As.

´óÏó´«Ã½ Scotland tries to buck this trend. We are grateful this year to East Ayrshire Council for allowing us to interview youngsters on the shared campus in Kilmarnock of and .

It was a great privilege to witness Park school children in particular opening their envelopes. For them the SQA letters on Access level represented a monumental achievement.

My own daughter was lucky enough to do very well in her Highers yesterday. Without taking an iota of that away from her, I believe what some of the Park children achieved was more impressive.

You can hear Seonag's interview with the pupils on yesterday morning's Good Morning Scotland - skip to 1h 36 mins.