Gunnedah's Maddie Coombs, Deagan Marchant and Emma Jerrett are all done, with Emma finishing her food technology exam at lunchtime on Tuesday.

Gunnedah High School student Maddie finished much earlier, on October 30, and Deagan completed his last exam on Monday.

St Mary's College's Emma said it felt "so good" to be finished, and that it was "nice to be able to do whatever I want and that I don't have to be somewhere".

Maddie told the NVI that it was relieving walking out of her final exam, PDHPE, knowing she had no exams left.

"It was relieving but then at the same time a bit scary that it's set in concrete and my adult life starts now," she said.

Each had different opinions on how they felt they went with their exams, but all had at least one they found difficult.

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St Mary's College student Deagan said he finished all of his exams without leaving questions unanswered, which he was happy about.

Maddie said she didn't find them as challenging as she thought she would.

"They were pretty good, I think NESA did a good job with most of the exams considering the year we've had," she said.

"Apart from the maths exam, all the other ones I felt pretty good about."

With no more study, the three students are now spending their time working and trying to work out what to do with so much free time.

Having finished much earlier than many other students, Maddie says she's been waiting for her friends to finish their exams to celebrate.

"I've been working up at the pool quite a lot and at Coles so I'm occupying myself, but other than that, relaxing at home," she said.

She's looking forward to some time away with some of her friends at the beginning of December. They're heading to Sydney to hit up the beach and relax.

Emma is celebrating with a week away with her friends in Forster, which she leaves for on Monday.

ATAR results are then released on December 18, but the students aren't thinking about results just yet.

"I'm not even thinking about the results for now, I'm just glad it's done," Emma said.

The ATAR isn't a worry at all for Deagan, who already has early entry into University of Wollongong for a bio-medical engineering degree. He'll be busying himself with getting ready for the move down south.

"I've signed up for some coding courses online which will help me in the university degree I'm taking and then just working so I'm not homeless when I get there," Deagan said.

"I've already got [accommodation] organised, I got guaranteed accommodation with the possibility for a scholarship which is good, so hopefully I'll get some of those because I have no money."

Emma will be having a gap year, and Maddie will continue working at the kiosk at Gunnedah pool then moving onto an exercise and sports science degree later on.