Brave Liam Knight ready for next challenge as he takes on HSC exams Liam Knight will sit his first HSC exam tomorrow. Liam Knight, with his brother Kyle Knight, ahead of HSC exams.. SITTING by their son's hospital bed, surrounded by machines keeping him alive after he was speared through the head with a pole, Liam Knight's parents wondered if he would ever wake again. That was months ago and it seemed as though life would never return to normal for the Knight family. Teen survivor Liam Knight smiles goodbye to rehab But tomorrow, in an amazing testament to his fighting spirit, Liam will join his peers to sit the first exam of his first Higher School Certificate. Liam Knight hits the books ahead of his HSC exams. While his peers were deep in exam preparation, Liam was busy learning to walk again after being critically injured at an 18th birthday party in January when a pole was thrown, piercing his brain. Steel bar attack teens to face trial His parents Mary and Trevor are proud of their son and how hard he has worked to achieve his remarkable recovery. He is just amazing. To think what he has been though and not to mention that he missed the first two terms of Year 12, yet he's still caught up," Mrs Knight said. Liam Knight (fourth from left, back row) at his year 12 graduation with St Pius X College students at Chatswood. Picture: Mary Knight Source: Supplied But not completing his HSC was never an option for Liam. I just thought 'what was the point of being at school all those years if you're not going to do your HSC?' It's what you focus on, pretty much, your whole way through school," Liam said. The night Liam was speared in head Liam's daily study regimen is interrupted by physiotherapy and doctors' appointments. Just a fortnight ago, he was back in hospital for a few days, having surgery to mend a hole in his skull. "He has never once tried to get out of doing his HSC," Mrs Knight said. St Pius X College principal John Couani presents Liam Knight with his graduation certificate. There are people who will get out of it with much lesser things wrong. But Liam has never even mentioned not doing it. The Knights credit Liam's teachers at St Pius X College at Chatswood, along with his supportive friends, for getting him to this point and "fast-tracking" his study. New uncle Liam Knight tickled pink at the arrival of little Mackenzie The school has been incredible. They said, 'if that's what he wants to do, we will help him in every way we can'," Mrs Knight said. Liam Knight hits the books ahead of his HSC exams with mate Nathan Petersen. And he's got lovely friends who come around and tutor him. His first exam is English, followed by three more exams in the first week, and his final one on October 28. He's dreading Ancient History and predicts his best subject will be Business. As for what he will do to celebrate the end of his HSC, Liam remains realistic. "Well, I have physio the next morning," Liam said. Liam Knight poses with family and firends after graduating. I'm going to take a gap year to focus on my rehabilitation and then maybe some travel. Then he'd like to go to university. "I'm thinking of aerospace engineering, if I get an ATAR of 98," he said.