VCE • VCAL 

Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE)

The VCE program is the complete list of VCE units you complete over the usual two years – or longer if you choose. Typically this list will consist of 20-24 units. That translates as five or six subjects, each of four units.

 

Regardless of how many units you do altogether, you must attempt 4 Units of English and successfully complete at least 3 Units of English.

To obtain the V.C.E. students must satisfactorily complete at least 16 Units in all.  These 16 Units must include at least:

 

• Three Units from the English sequence, and

• Three pairs of Unit 3 and 4 sequences in studies other than English. For example, Units 3 and 4 of Accounting, Drama and Geography.

 

At Bundoora Secondary College students will be required to attempt a minimum of:

• 12 Units in the first year, ie. 6 Units each semester at 5 periods per week. These could include a combination of Unit 1-4 subjects and VET units; and

• 10 Units in their second year, ie. 5 Units each semester at 5 periods per week. These units would normally consist of Unit 3-4 subjects.  The selection of an ‘Enhancement’ study should be seen as a fifth subject.

 

As a specialist school in Health and Community Services our V.C.E subjects have been built up to help students undertaking this program access to examples, work and opportunities related to the Health and Community Services industry.

 

In addition, our V.C.E students have priority access to the ACU Step-up program, Latrobe VCE Plus,  RMIT extension , Melbourne Uni extension program, giving them the opportunity to access 1st year university subjects which credit directly to undergraduate degrees.

 

External Examinations

External examinations are set and marked by the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority.  Most are held in November, but a small number of studies have examinations in June.

 

Student results for each assessment (exam) will be reported as a grade from A+ to E.

The final marks given by the VCAA for each of these THREE assessment types – SAC’s, SAT’s, and exams – will be used to calculate the Study Score, which is then used to calculate the student’s ATAR.

 

You can graduate with the VCE without completing the school-assessments or the examinations, but you cannot get an ATAR.

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VET Certificates are a DOUBLE bonus

We strongly encourage all our 15+ students to take on a VET certificate.

It counts as a VCE subject AND provides an additional qualification AND gives a taste of tertiary education AND gives a genuine taste of the world of work. Like most schools we use our wider network to access these certificates, however unlike most school we do not place barriers to access.

Check out the spread of opportunities here

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Victorian Certificate of Education – Vocational Major (VCE-VM)

The VCE Vocational Major (VM) is a vocational and applied learning program within the VCE.

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The VCE Vocational Major will prepare you to move successfully into apprenticeships, traineeships, further education and training, university through alternative entry programs or directly into the workforce.

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Students enrolled in the VCE-VM will have access to the VCE Vocational Major units of study. Each VCE Vocational Major unit of study has specified learning outcomes. Your teacher will supervise and mark your assessments and will let you know that you’ve passed the specified learning outcomes through a range of learning activities and tasks. Unlike other VCE subjects, there are no external assessments, apart from the General Achievement Test. This means you don’t have study scores and you will not get an ATAR.

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