Annie Yu – I didn't have an aim for, to achieve a particular score, I think all I wanted to do was to enjoy year 12. Because people say that year 12 is meant to be the best year of your life.
Karla Murphy – I guess just to like, still be really passionate about everything by the end of the year and not be really sick of all of my subjects, and just learning and doing work. I hope, I was hoping to still be interested in learning.
Emma Barham – I actually really love exams, I love like the adrenaline, and like you've done all the work and then it's just about showing them how much you know. And yeah I love exams, it's weird.
Matthew Cheah – Well the first exam was English, so that was terrible
Emma Barham – when you're challenged the most you grow the most, and you can almost feel yourself growing in an intellectual level as well as like on a personal level.
Karla Murphy – I felt like, just the second after like I finished my final exam, everything, it was just a complete release of everything and I didn't really feel stressed at all afterwards.
Annie Yu – When I got my VCE result I was actually in New Zealand, and so me and my mum and my sister were just sitting in bed and keep refreshing the laptop, and suddenly the result just popped up and I was like "Wow!"
Callum Holmes – But yeah, the moment I saw it I was kind of like "Woo hoo!" jumping for joy and the rest of it, much to the distaste of my neighbours who unfortunately got woken up by the screaming. But yeah, that's not a memory that will go away any time soon.
Anand Bharadwaj – I think the main emotion when I actually received my results on, I think it was the 15th of December last year was relief (holds sign that reads relieved)
Karla Murphy – Happy, just as simple as that. I just felt happy (holds sign that reads happy
: ) )
Callum Holmes – I was, I was surprised, um only because I didn't expect that I could actually achieve it (holds sign that reads Surprised)
Emma Barham – (holds sign that reads elated)
Annie Yu – I think the best advice I got from one of my teachers was to not look at my grades as a number or rank, but instead to see it as a reflection of how much I've already learned, how much I already know and how much more I still need to learn.
This is how I felt, yep (holds sign that reads Shock!!)
Emma Barham – it's something I've lived by for the last couple of years, I've always lived by the mantra that hard work beats talent, when talent doesn't work hard enough.
Anand Bharadwaj– It's not about the number of practice exams you do, or the quantity and the volume of the revision notes you make, but it's about what you do with them and how well you understand the content
Matthew Cheah – Learn more than you have to, just learn what you want to learn and then the marks will follow. I was very surprised when I won this award. To be honest, I'm still, I'm still processing it.
Anand Bharadwaj – Oh it means a lot, I think its fantastic recognition of the hard work that not only me but so many talented people around the state have put in over the years.
Annie Yu – When I saw the email saying that I got this Premier's VCE Award I was over the moon. I was like "wow", because I wasn't really expecting one and it was just such a good recognition of all the hard work that I had put in last year
Signs on the floor read, Surprised, happy : ) , SHOCKED, Shock!! Elated, PROUD, relieved, shocked, PLEASANTLY SURPRISED