Twins brothers who had matching ATAR scores of 99.6 spent Year 12 grappling with the shock death of their dad - but their sibling rivalry kept them focused.
When Connor Ibbotson got his exam results on Wednesday morning, he bolted into his twin brother Luke's room in Warragul, south east of Melbourne, to wake him up.
'I just wanted to sleep,' Luke laughed.
'We plugged the marks into an ATAR calculator to see what we might get, and the results were spot on - we got the same thing,' he told Daily Mail Australia.
The 18-year-old's said the results were a 'complete shock' during a tough year for people in Victoria in lockdown because of the coronavirus pandemic.