10. Selection Process
Subject Selection Process at St Mary's College
The timeline for selecting subjects for 2024 is given on the Timeline page. Please make sure that you work within these deadlines to register your requests.
The process is designed to give support and guidance to students and to assist them to make informed choices.
1. Read through the online handbook pages to make sure that you understand the range of options that are available. The subject information in these pages summarises the VCAA VCE Study Designs and VM Study Design.
2. Parents and students should attend the Senior Studies information evening. There will be subject displays which will give you the opportunity to connect with staff and ask questions relating to your relevant pathway.
3. All Year 11 2025 students must attend a course counselling session, which can be booked through your PAM account. You will need to select a time and a teacher for your interview. These will be conducted on the Edmund Rice campus. During this session, you will have the opportunity to discuss and plan for your Senior Studies pathway. It would be helpful to have the following documents available during this session:
- Semester 1 report
- Morrisby Online Revision sheet
- Course planner (available on the Course Planner page)
- Career pathway information, ie preferences for any courses that you are interested in etc.
4. The online selection will be completed using Edval choice website. You are able to make changes up until the closing date, August 28 2025.
It is very important that you list the subjects in order of preference, with the subject that you want to do most as preference 1.
Please consider the reserve list of subjects as part of your preferences as there is a good possibility that you will be placed in one of these classes.
Your list of subjects, together with all the other students in Year 11, will be used to generate the subjects offered in each line for 2024. In some cases, students will be allocated their reserve subjects because:
- One or more of their preference subjects had too few students to create a class
- Two or more of their preference subjects have been placed on the same line
Students will be given the opportunity during Term 4 to negotiate changes to their allocated subjects. There will be a notice in the daily messages to explain this process.
We are committed to working with students individually to design the best course to suit their academic and future pathways needs.
How to list your preferences for 2025
- A link to Edval Choice can be found on SIMON in the School Links tab
- You will be emailed a unique Webcode from a 'noreply' address to use when you log into Edval Choice (please look for this in your junk if you cannot find it in your mail list)
- Detailed instruction on how to enter your preferences will be available
- You will be able to enter your preferences for 2024
- You will also need to register 2 reserve preferences that will be used if one of your preferred subjects does not have enough students to run, or if there are unavoidable clashes
- All preferences must be entered by August 28, 2024
- Once you have entered your preferences you will need to download and print the parent permission page. A parent or carer will need to sign the form. The signed form must either handed to your Pastoral Care teacher or emailed to subjectselections@stmaryscollege.vic.edu.au