With an Enter score of 97, the 18-year-old former Casey Grammar student last week flew to Malaysia for a pre-entry interview to confirm his offer.

Rupinderjeet told the Journal from Kuala Lumpur that he was thrilled to be offered a place in the double degree bachelor of medicine/bachelor of surgery course at Monash University's Sunway campus.

"I am very excited though a little hesitant to leave my home town. I would have preferred to stay with my family and friends in Melbourne, but to do medicine, one must be prepared to travel, even to Malaysia."

Rupinderjeet said year 12 was hard work.

"Year 12 in Victoria is known as VCE, but informally it's also known as the Very Cruel Experiment.

"My VCE year involved waking up early every day, even on weekends, in order to revise material covered in class and to get ahead.

"At school I worked through lunch and recess in the science classrooms, sometimes eating lunch my mum packed on the bus back home.

"I studied late most evenings, so I made many sacrifices. But I used to remind myself it was only one year of my life and in the larger scope of things it was not much to sacrifice for what I truly wanted to do."

Rupinderjeet jokingly set out to achieve an Enter score of 100.

"The toughest challenge for me during year 12 was keeping the flame of this self-motivation burning. Luckily the fuel came from many different places - Casey Grammar School, brilliant teachers, my parents and family."

"Every Sunday, my parents would take me to my English tutor Judith Fields in Caulfield and chemistry and maths tutor Sandeep Rakhra in Eltham.

Rupinderjeet also applied for and sat an interview for the MBBS course at James Cook University in Townsville, but he's still waiting for a reply. "But my offer from Monash University in Malaysia for the MBBS is a priceless opportunity."