AS the Young triplets tick off their Higher School Certificate exams, the sisters are marking not just the end of 13 years of schooling but what could be their last shared major experience together.
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Isabella, Kaitlyn and Charlotte, 17, shared some of the same classes and friends at Warners Bay High, go the same gym, their boyfriends are friends and Kaitlyn and Charlotte even work at the same restaurant.
"There's not many places where we arrive alone," Isabella said.
But their lives will soon diverge in three new directions.
The sisters are all aiming for the University of Newcastle, but Isabella wants to study psychology, Kaitlyn occupational therapy and Charlotte law.
"It's exciting," Kaitlyn said. "It's almost like we'll be given the chance to be individuals, in a way, at uni."
Isabella said they were "ready for school to be over and for a change".
Charlotte said the thought of going into a course where she didn't know anyone was scary. "Because I've always had two people I knew," she said. "But we will have more things to tell each other."
Kaitlyn said they would "probably text throughout the day because we won't be used to being apart, but we won't break under it".
Charlotte said if she felt distance between the sisters, she'd tell them "this is not happening".
The trio said they had felt "prepared" for Friday's English Paper 2 and "pretty good" after finishing three extended responses in two hours.
While they hadn't felt the need to tape batteries to their pens throughout the year to strengthen their hands - which they said some peers did - they said they had to write so quickly there wasn't much time to think between the paper's three sections.
The sisters have been studying mostly in their bedrooms - although Isabella recently moved to the dining table - but do bounce problems and ideas off each other.
"If one of us is stressed we know what's going on and it makes it easier to work it out and let it go over your head," Kaitlyn said.
"If one of us is overthinking something you can see it from a different perspective and break it down for them," Isabella said.
They said they didn't compete against each other for results as much as they were motivated by each other.
"We take it for granted that we do have people that are always there," Kaitlyn said.
Isabella said they knew everything about each other and where all the metaphorical bodies were buried. "We buried them together!"
The triplets turn 18 on November 2 and will go on a road trip after exams.
They'll be on a cruise returning from New Caledonia with their family when results are released.