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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

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VCE Vocational Major (VCE VM) VCE VM subject overviews

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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 design and innovation help to optimise chemical processes?, Unit 4: How are carbon-based compounds designed for purpose?

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: Politics, power and political actors, Unit 2: Democracy: stability and change, Unit 3: Global Actors, Unit 4: Global Challenges

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?, 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

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 have creative ideas and investigation revolutionised thinking?

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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

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Mathematics overview

Mathematics is the study of function and pattern in number, logic, space and structure. It provides both a framework for thinking and a means of symbolic communication that is powerful, logical, concise and precise. It also provides a means by which people can understand and manage their environment. Essential mathematical activities include calculating and computing, abstracting, conjecturing, proving, applying, investigating, modelling, and problem posing and solving.

This study is designed to provide access to worthwhile and challenging mathematical learning in a way which takes into account the needs and aspirations of a wide range of students. It is also designed to promote students’ awareness of the importance of mathematics in everyday life in a technological society, and confidence in making effective use of mathematical ideas, techniques and processes.

MGSC offers a range of Mathematics courses to suit different abilities and all career paths. We also include access to ICT resources/applications to facilitate the required learning outcomes.

What Mathematics pathway should I choose in VCE?

The flowchart below shows the possible pathways for studying VCE Mathematics

Note: For VCE Mathematics Studies all Student Assessed Coursework (tests and tasks) and Examinations are set assuming students own or have access to an approved CAS calculator.

Examination 1 for both Mathematical Methods Units 3 & 4 and Specialist Mathematics Units 3&4 will be a 1 hour technology free (no calculator, no notes) examination.

Examination 2 for both Mathematical Methods Units 3 & 4 and Specialist Mathematics Units 3&4 will be a 2 hour technology-active (calculators and bound reference notes may be used) examination.

Examinations 1 and Examination 2 for General Mathematics Units 3 & 4 will be 90 minute technology-active (calculators and bound reference notes may be used) examinations.

Pathways for studies in Mathematics

VCE Foundation Mathematics

VCE Foundation Mathematics (Units 1 & 2) provides for the continuing development of students who need mathematical skills to support their other VCE subjects. Successful completion of Foundation Mathematics also satisfies the Numeracy component of the VCE Vocational Major.

VCE Foundation Mathematics has a strong emphasis on using mathematics in practical contexts relating to everyday life. Students are encouraged to use appropriate technology in all areas of their study.

Foundation Mathematics Units 1 & 2 focus on providing students with the mathematical knowledge, skills, understanding and dispositions to solve problems in real contexts for a range of workplace, personal, further learning, and community settings relevant to contemporary society. Students are encouraged to use appropriate technology in all areas of their study.

The areas of study for Foundation Mathematics are:

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

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. Example assessment tasks include - Outcome 1: Assignments, summary or review notes, tests Outcome 2: A report on an application or use of mathematics, a presentation in oral, written, poster, or multimedia format Outcome 3: Effective and appropriate use of technology in contexts related to topics in the selected material from the areas of study.

Outcomes for satisfactory completion:

to be able to use and apply a range of mathematical concepts, skills and procedures from selected areas of study to solve practical problems based on a range of everyday and real-life contexts.
to apply mathematical processes in non-routine practical 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.
to be able to apply computational thinking and use numerical, graphical, symbolic and statistical functionalities of technology to develop mathematical ideas, produce results and carry out analysis in practical situations requiring investigative, modelling or problem-solving techniques or approaches.