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VCE Update

VCE Update

It has been an unprecedented year for all of us but it has been a particularly tumultuous year for Year 12 students. However, BHHS is very proud of our Year 12s and the resilience they have demonstrated in coping with remote teaching and learning as well as missing out on many of the usual celebratory events experienced by previous Year 12 graduates. No one will ever forget 2020 and in particular, the experience of the Class of 2020.

 

We now have some certainty around how the rest of the year will look for Year 12, subject to the continued improvement in the number COVID cases. 

 

Important dates and events:

  • Remote teaching and learning continues for
    • Weeks 9 & 10 of term 3
    • Week 1 of term 4
  • GAT online presentation
    • Monday 14 September
    • 2:30 to 3:30pm
  • VCE 3 & 4 revision lectures begin during the term break
    • 22 September, 3:30 – 6:30pm – PE/Accounting/Economics
    • 24 September, 3:30 – 6:30pm – Legal Studies/Business Management
    • 28 September, 3:30 – 6:30pm – English/EAL/English language
    • 3 October, 3:30 to 6:30pm Psychology
    • 19 October, 3:30-6:30pm – Physics
    • 20 October, 3:30 to 6:30pm – Chemistry
    • 21 October, 3:30pm to 6:30pm, Biology
    • 26 October, 3:30 to 6:30pm – Further Maths, Methods
  • GAT
    • Wednesday 7 October, on-site
    • 10am to 1:15pm
  • On-site SACs
    • Thursday 8 October & Friday 9 October
    • Various subjects will run SACs on-site over these two days
  • Monday 12 October
    • Return to on-site schooling for all Year 11 and 12 students
    • Year 10 students can attend on-site for any VCE classes
    • During the three weeks of on-site learning, teachers will be providing intensive revision, teaching of exam skills and conducting exam practice including at least one full length exam practice.
  • Friday 30 October
    • Last day of classes for Year 12 students
  • Monday 2 November
    • Year 12 SWOT VAC
  • Tuesday 10 November
    • English/EAL Exam
  • Tuesday 10 November to Tuesday 1 December
  • Wednesday 30 December
    • Students receive results

Calculation of the ATAR

The Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA) will introduce a new ‘Consideration of Educational Disadvantage’ process to calculate VCE scores, taking into account disruptions to learning this year.

The VCAA will consider a range of data provided by schools, together with each student’s exam results.

The data will include:

  1. An Expected Score at graded assessment level for internal assessment (provided by teachers) – what the score the student would have been expected to attain if they had suffered no disadvantage
  2. An Expected Grade for each external assessment (provided by teachers)  – what the grade the student would have been expected to attain if they had suffered no disadvantage.
  • the General Achievement Test (GAT)
  • a range of statistical analyses used to calculate final results.

Health Controls for VCAA Exams

The health, wellbeing and safety of students and staff is our top priority during this time. The Department of Education and Training and the Department of Health and Human Services have worked closely together to ensure schools are provided with clear and up-to-date advice about arrangements for the conduct and administration of the GAT as well as examinations. All health controls will be implemented at Box Hill High School during the exam period including a maximum of one person per four square metres, cleaning and disinfection of shared equipment between groups of students and wearing of masks by all students and staff.

 

- Theresa Iacopino, Assistant Principal