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Performance
The week preceding the natural sciences and mathematics examination on Sunday, scores were predicted to stay either around or slightly below the previous year, at 589 and 775 respectively. When combined with the estimated score of around 800 on the written essay, this would result in a total score of between 740 and 748, twenty points below necessary for admission at Federal University of Santa Catarina. When Metacritic released their projection on November 11, the total score was revised to between 739 and 756 points.

Religious views
Contrary to his parents' wishes, who had had him baptized at the age of only three months old, Lucas was never a devout Christian. As a child, he suffered from fear of questioning his religion, felt remorse at and berated himself for anti-religious thoughts. Nevertheless, he never painted religious individuals around him in a positive light, viewing devout costumes as a thing of the poor and less educated. These feelings were augmented during his period at Sunday school, during which his evolutionist beliefs contrasted with those of his creationist friends from his neighborhood.

Lucas' rejection of the writings of the Bible, the main characteristic of his beliefs throughout his life, was already well-developed by 2015, and were further encouraged by his friends at College of St Joseph. During a July 2015 spiritual retreat, which he was forced to partake in, Lucas remained immune to the episode of collective hysteria that many of his friends became caught up in, and expressed his distaste for the backward discourse of indoctrination that the teenagers were exposed to. However, this event started a religious wave that engulfed him for almost three years, during which he prayed the Lord's Prayer every day. Despite this, over this period he became increasingly uncomfortable with the Catholic Church's views on homosexuality, premarital sex and abortion, how it indirectly contributed to violent conflicts such as the Troubles and the Brazilian military dictatorship, intolerance towards Afro-Brazilian religions and non-religious people in Brazil, and a perceived hypocrisy practiced by the Church's members.

In 2017, Lucas stopped going to church definitely, having stopped labelling himself a "Catholic" for over two years. He remained uncomfortable with the idea of eternal oblivion until mid-2018, by which time he was practically atheist. That year, several cultural artifacts embraced irreligion, such as the dystopic television drama Black Mirror and Scottish electronic band Chvrches' album Love Is Dead. No longer able to sustain a false claim of belief, Lucas apostatized completely in either August or September 2018, and today considers himself irreligious and nihilistic.