Especean

Curriculum and Learning

Year 12 Assessment Block

The Year 12 Assessment Block will commence next week on Monday 3 March with English Advanced and English Standard and will conclude on Thursday 13 March with Legal Studies and Mathematics Extension 1 in the afternoon session with Friday 14 March scheduled for “catch-up” of missed assessments. The assessments are varied in type, structure and format and include but are not limited to written responses to pre-published stimulus materials, written tests, essays, orals and practicals.

 

The Assessment Block timetable was issued to Year 12 students last week and students are reminded to become familiar with and abide by the Assessment/Examination Block Rules for Senior Students available on the Year 12 CANVAS page.

 

Parents/carers and students of Year 12 are reminded, that in the event of absenteeism due to illness or misadventure during the Assessment Block, a telephone call to the Year Coordinator, Mrs Fisicaro, must be made on the morning of the assessment.

 

A substitute assessment will be arranged, preferably within the Assessment Block period, provided the illness/misadventure has been upheld by the College Assessment Review Committee. On the student’s return to school, a completed illness/misadventure form, with the related medical certificate or other official supporting evidence attached, must be personally given to Mrs Fisicaro and the relevant Head of Department.

 

If illness or misadventure prevents a student from attending or submitting an assessment or affects their performance in an assessment, it is the student’s responsibility to complete and submit an illness/misadventure application, not a parent/carer or relative, unless the student is physically unable to do so.

 

It is important to note that illness/misadventure applications are for cases where an illness or misadventure:

  • occurred immediately before or during an assessment

  • was unexpected

  • was beyond the student’s control and prevented them from attending or diminished their performance in the assessment.

The College will not consider illness or misadventure applications for:

  • difficulty preparing or lost preparation time

  • alleged deficiencies in teaching

  • misreading the Assessment Block timetable

  • misreading assessment instructions

  • attempting the wrong assessment

  • long-term illness (e.g., glandular fever, asthma or epilepsy), unless the student has suffered a flare-up of the condition during the assessment

  • conditions for which the student has been granted disability provisions, unless they have further unexpected difficulties

  • conditions for which a student should have applied for disability provisions

  • other commitments such as participation in work, sporting event, holiday, or attendance at tests conducted by other organisations.

Illness/misadventure applications must include advice or evidence from a relevant independent expert, not a parent/carer or relative, on the same day, either immediately before or after each assessment for the student. The medical certificate must be written by a practising medical doctor who is not a parent/carer or relative.

 

The student must provide documentation that is current, specific to the date and time of the assessment, and submitted with the illness/misadventure form. A medical certificate that merely states “illness” and/or “unfit for work/study” is unacceptable and the College will not consider an illness/misadventure application without sufficient evidence supporting a genuine reason.

 

I wish all our HSC candidates well for the upcoming Assessment Block and every success in working towards and achieving their personal best.

 

Michael Cutrupi 

Director of Curriculum