Hi,
I have an exam in an hour so I'm going to have to make this a short reply but I'll come back to respond to more of your post later. For now, I recently wrote an article about exam stress which you can find
here. There has been lots of discussion about exam stress over in the VCE journey journal section (they're not as far through exams as QCE) which you might also find helpful. If you do look at that, keep in mind that score calculation is more exam-dependent in VCE than QCE and that QCE doesn't have ranking in the same way as VCE (which again means your exams are less influential on your marks).
Good luck and I'll try to get back with more soon-ish
Edit: forgot to mention I moved this for you
Alright here's some more:
Now that exams are over probably the best strategy you can use is to distract yourself and to try to really focus on other things. Going out with your friends sounds like a fantastic idea!
Some people also find it cathartic to burn their notes (if you decide to do this I'd be grateful if you upload to the free notes section first). I personally found it useful to write some guides etc. to help others as that way even if my effort didn't get me what I wanted it would be useful to someone.
On my ATAR day I first found out my results alone, then told family. I actually had a career/course consulting thing at my high school on that day and I wasn't looking forward to talking to others about it (even though I met my ATAR goal I was not happy with my methods score and was a bit apprehensive about seeing my methods teacher) but talking to people was actually really nice for me.
I duxed all my subjects and the one time I didn't get the top score on a physics test people brought it up for the rest of the year so I get what you mean about pressure. What helped me was realising that if I delivered below expectations people would probably be sad for me rather than blaming me. As mentioned earlier, I was stressed about disappointing my methods teacher after I got that score back and apologised when I saw her but she was actually happy for the me for my ATAR and results more generally & knew how much work I'd put in - which I think is what she really valued.
I was super fixated on 98+ because I wanted to get a scholarship off that and have that help support me to live away from home, whatever your reasons for wanting the scholarship
even if you don't get it you will find a way to go forwards and manage the hand you have been dealt. I don't think it will come to that but sometimes it's easier to convince yourself the bad thing won't ruin your life than it is to emotionally acknowledge that you probably will get it.
I don't know if that can be easily understood or helps but I hope it does