The Victorian Certificate of Education English exam is scheduled on October 26.
Kyabram students Elleina Suarez, Keelee Smith and Chloe Messenger will sit down for the exam knowing they have university offers already on the table.
Elleina Suarez featured in the Kyabram Free Press last month, having been the first to be notified by mail of her acceptance into two universities.
Last week she received a third, and a guaranteed spot at one of those institutes.
For Keelee Smith, who has the legal profession firmly in her sights, there are two offers on the table — at Bathurst’s Charles Street University and the University of Wollongong.
She is planing to tackle a Bachelor of Law and Criminology or a Bachelor of Law and Criminal Justice — depending what final offer is made later this year.
“The end goal is to become a barrister, ultimately a judge,” she said.
She has family in NSW, which has led her to investigate tertiary institutions outside Victoria.
Chloe Messenger has been offered a place at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne, in nursing.
“She has had her heart set on a medical career since starting secondary school and hopes to add midwifery to her nursing studies,” her mother Michelle said.
Michelle has held several senior roles at Kyabram District Health Service — giving Chloe a better-than-usual understanding of the demands placed on health workers.
She has studied Health and Human Development, Biology and Chemistry at VCE level to prepare for the three years of study.
Keelee has the longest haul ahead, five years required to complete her studies, while four years of further education awaits Elleina Suarez.
All three have differing plans for 2023, Chloe deciding to immediately start her university course, while Elleina will do a TAFE course next year on a “gap year’’ before tackling a double-degree in psychological sciences and law.
No decision has made made by Keelee as to her 2023 plans.
But first, exams.
Elleina has only three exams, having already completed university qualifying subjects, while Keelee and Chloe have six exams during the four-week exam period — which ends on Wednesday, November 16.
The trio finished at St Augustine’s with a Year 12 assembly on Friday and will sit their exams in the Anglican Church hall.
They have a graduation event on November 17, at the college church.
Chloe is setting a high standard for her year eight and nine sisters, one who has an interest in nursing.
Elleina’s older brother set a high standard of his own, scoring 46 out of 50 on his English exam.
He is studying a Bachelor of Education Support and is working as an LSO at Kangaroo Flat in Bendigo.
Keelee is the first one in her family to go to university.
There are 39 VCE students at the college and, according to the trio, three quarters will doing some form of further education.
Elleina started at the college in Year 7, Keelee has completed her entire primary and secondary school at St Augustine’s and Chloe started in Year 2.
