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Completion of the VCE What is the VCE?, Prerequisites for Unit 3 & Unit 4, Subject Preference Order, Assessment, Authentication , Special Provision

Vocational Major (VM) About the VM, VCE VM subject overviews

Accounting Unit 1: Role of accounting in business, Unit 2: Accounting and decision-making for a trading business, Unit 3: Financial accounting for a trading business, Unit 4: Recording, reporting, budgeting and decision-making

Art Creative Practice Unit 1: Interpreting artworks and exploring the Creative Practice, Unit 2: Interpreting artworks and developing the Creative Practice, Unit 3: Investigation, ideas, artworks and the Creative Practice Artworks ideas and values, Unit 4: Interpreting, resolving and presenting artworks and the Creative Practice Artworks, ideas and viewpoints

Biology Unit 1: How do organisms regulate their functions?, Unit 2: How does inheritance impact on diversity?, Unit 3: How do cells maintain life?, Unit 4: How does life change and respond to challenges?

Business Management Unit 1: Planning a business, Unit 2: Establishing a business, Unit 3: Managing a business, Unit 4: Transforming a business

Chemistry Unit 1: How can the diversity of materials be explained?, Unit 2: What makes water such a unique chemical?, Unit 3: How can chemical processes be designed to optimise efficiency?, Unit 4: How are organic compounds categorised, analysed and used?

English Unit 1 , Unit 2, Unit 3, Unit 4

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English as an Additional Language Unit 1, Unit 2, Unit 3, Unit 4

Literature Unit 1 , Unit 2 , Unit 3, Unit 4:

Economics Unit 1: Economic decision-making, Unit 2: Economic issues and living standards, Unit 3: Australia’s living standards, Unit 4: Managing the economy

Environmental Science Unit 1: How are Earth’s dynamic systems interconnected to support life?, Unit 2: What affects Earth’s capacity to sustain life?, Unit 3: How can biodiversity and development be sustained?, Unit 4: How can climate change and the impacts of human energy use be managed?

Food Studies Unit 1: Food origins, Unit 2: Food makers, Unit 3: Food in daily life, Unit 4: Food issues, challenges and futures

Global Politics Unit 1: Political ideas, political actors and political power , Unit 2: Global connections - Global links, cooperation and conflict

Health & Human Development Unit 1: Understanding health and wellbeing, Unit 2: Managing health and development, Unit 3: Australia’s health in a globalised world, Unit 4: Health and human development in a global context

History Units 1 & 2: Empires , Units 3 & 4: Revolutions

Languages French, Japanese, Units 1 & 2: , Units 3 & 4:

Legal Studies Unit 1: Guilt and liability, Unit 2: Sanctions, remedies and rights, Unit 3: Rights and justice, Unit 4: The people and the law

Mathematics overview What Mathematics pathway should I choose in VCE?, Possible pathways for studies in Mathematics , VCE Foundation Mathematics

General Mathematics Units 1 & 2: General Mathematics, Units 3 & 4: General Mathematics

Mathematics Methods Units 1 & 2: Mathematical Methods, Units 3 & 4: Mathematical Methods

Specialist Mathematics Units 1 & 2: Specialist Mathematics, Units 3 & 4: Specialist Mathematics

Media Unit 1: Media forms, representations and Australian stories , Unit 2: Narrative across media forms , Unit 3: Media narratives and pre-production , Unit 4: Media production and issues in the media

Music Units 1 & 2: Music, Units 3 & 4: Music Repertoire Performance, Units 3 & 4: Music Contemporary Performance, Units 3 & 4: Music Inquiry

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Outdoor & Environmental Studies Unit 3: Relationships with natural environments, Unit 4: The future of human-nature interactions, Video presentation

Physical Education Unit 1: Bodies in motion, Unit 2: Physical activity, sport and society, Unit 3: Movement skills and energy for physical activity, Unit 4: Training to improve performance, Video presentation

Physics Unit 1: How is energy useful to society?, Unit 2: How does physics help us to understand the world?, Unit 3: How do fields explain motion and electricity?, Unit 4: How can two contradictory models explain both light and matter?

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Product Design & Technology Unit 1: Sustainability redevelopment of a product, Unit 2: Collaborative design, Unit 3: Applying the product design process, Unit 4: Product development and evaluation

Psychology Unit 1: How are behaviour and mental processes shaped?, Unit 2: How do internal and external factors influence behaviour and mental processes?, Unit 3: How does experience affect behaviour and mental processes?, Unit 4: How is wellbeing developed and maintained?

Sociology Unit 1: Youth and family, Unit 2: Social norms: breaking the code, Unit 3: Culture and ethnicity, Unit 4: Community, social movements and social change

Theatre Studies Unit 1: Pre-modern theatre styles and conventions, Unit 2: Modern theatre styles and conventions, Unit 3: Producing theatre, Unit 4: Presenting an interpretation

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Visual Communication Design Unit 1: Introduction to visual communication design, Unit 2: Applications of visual communication with design fields, Unit 3: Visual communication design practices, Unit 4: Visual communication design, development, evaluation and presentation

About VET Overview, Costs, VCE VET studies offered

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Certificate II in Animal Studies

Certificate II in Applied Fashion Design & Technology

Certificate II in Beauty Services

Certificate II in Dance

Certificate III in Early Child Education & Care*

Certificate II in Engineering Studies

Certificate III in Events

Certificate II in Hospitality

Certificate III in Information, Digital Media & Technology

Certificate II in Laboratory Skills

Certificate III in Music Industry (Performance)

Certificate II in Sport & Recreation

Certificate III in Tourism

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General Mathematics

Units 1 & 2: General Mathematics

General Mathematics Units 1 and 2 cater for a range of student interests, provide preparation for the study of VCE General Mathematics at the Units 3 and 4 level and contain assumed knowledge and skills for these units.

The areas of study for Units 1 and 2 of General Mathematics are:

Data analysis, probability and statistics
Discrete mathematics
Functions, relations and graphs
Discrete mathematics
Space and measurement

In undertaking these units, students are expected to be able to apply techniques, routines and processes involving rational and real arithmetic, sets, lists, tables and matrices, diagrams and geometric constructions, algorithms, algebraic manipulation, recurrence relations, equations and graphs, with and without the use of technology. They should have facility with relevant mental and by-hand approaches to estimation and computation. The use of numerical, graphical, geometric, symbolic, financial and statistical functionality of technology for teaching and learning mathematics, for working mathematically, and in related assessment, is to be incorporated throughout each unit as applicable.

The award of satisfactory completion for a unit is based on whether the student has demonstrated achievement of the set of outcomes 1, 2 and 3 listed below. All assessments at Units 1 and 2 are school-based, are a part of the regular teaching and learning program, and completed mainly in class and within a limited timeframe. The decision will be based on the teacher’s assessment of the student’s overall performance on assessment tasks designated for the unit.

On completion of this unit the student should be able to:

Define and explain key concepts as specified in the content from the areas of study and apply a range of related mathematical routines and procedures.
Apply mathematical processes in non-routine contexts, including situations with some open-ended aspects requiring investigative, modelling or problem-solving techniques or approaches, and analyse and discuss these applications of mathematics.
Apply computational thinking and use numerical, graphical, symbolic and statistical functionalities of technology to develop mathematical ideas, produce results and carry out analysis in situations requiring investigative, modelling or problem-solving techniques or approaches.

Units 3 & 4: General Mathematics

General Mathematics Units is designed for students to study on its own and sometimes in conjunction with Mathematical Methods. It is a sufficient prerequisite for tertiary courses that require students to undertake a Level 3 & 4 Mathematics subject.

Unit 3 comprises:

Data Analysis. Displaying, summarising and describing univariate and bivariate data
Correlation and regression and time series analysis
Recursion and financial modelling. Depreciation, compound interest, reducing balance loans, annuities and perpetuities

Unit 4 comprises :

Matrices
Networks and decision mathematics

On completion of this unit the student should be able to:

Define and explain key concepts as specified in the content from the areas of study and apply a range of related mathematical routines and procedures.
Apply mathematical processes in non-routine contexts, including situations with some open-ended aspects requiring investigative, modelling or problem-solving techniques or approaches, and analyse and discuss these applications of mathematics.
Apply computational thinking and use numerical, graphical, symbolic and statistical functionalities of technology to develop mathematical ideas, produce results and carry out analysis in situations requiring investigative, modelling or problem-solving techniques or approaches.