In all honesty I would have handled VCE better at 15/16 than I did at 17/18. I found that by the time I hit year 12 I had become jaded with the whole education system and was too busy questioning everything to study as I should where as at the younger age all I cared about was learning more and impressing my teachers. At 17 &18 I was too busy trying to assert my self and realising that my opinions were just as valid as a teachers, the only difference was a few more years at school and age, most of my teachers could not answer the questions I raised and 1 even banned me from her class (ethics) and banished me to the library during said classes... so socially I would have been better off as a younger student.