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2025 VCE Study Design

VCAA have released a consultation draft of the 2025 Study Design available here.

VCAA would like feedback on the consultation draft from VCE teachers.

2024 VCE Forums

Recording of our 2024 Unit 3 & Unit 4 Forums are available to purchase for $150 each.

Recordings of our Revision Forums from 2022 & 2021 are also available ($100 each).

2021 includes:

· Peter Soutar on Smart & Nagel

· Tristan Hill on Locke & Hume

· Lenny Robinson on Technology & The Good Life

· Kristy Forrest on Exam Revision Strategies

2022 includes:

· Ben Kilby on Evaluation in VCE Philosophy & Exam Breakdown

· Bonnie Zuidland on Section B: Extended Response

· Timotei Schubert on Comparing Philosophers and Ideas Across Unit 4

· Tristan Hill on Section C: The Essay

Email trea...@vaps.vic.edu.au to request an invoice & access.

2025 Set Text PDF

The set texts for the new study design have been released. Tyson Foreman has collated them all and has been very generous with allowing VAPS to distribute.

It is available permanently via the member resources page on the VAPS website (and will be there fore the next 4 years for future reference).

It is also available here for convenience now.

New Study Design

In Term 4, VAPS has 2 days dedicated to the new study design. Thursday & Friday 28-29 November.

Thursday 28th is a day co-hosted with VCAA to unpack all of the intricacies of the new study design.

Friday 29th is a day for VAPS members to get together and collaboratively plan resources to use for the study design and that can also be published on the VAPS website to support teachers.

You may choose to come to one or both. You may choose to 'sell' these days to your school as a package deal so you are able to be released for two full days.

The cost of these days is still to be determined, but it will be a nominal cost just to support the activities of VAPS (e.g., $20).

If you would like to be contacted to register and receive an invoice for this event, please fill in this form here.

VCE Set Text Audiobooks

VAPS has recently published audiobooks available for free via Spotify for the current VCE Philosophy Set Texts. These are particuarly useful to have the texts all in one place, and also for texts that jump around and skip sections of the original (e.g., Descartes). These audiobooks will allow you to listen to only those sections that form part of the set text.

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