Year 12 News
Campbell Pallot & Nick Rigas | Year 12 Coordinators
The 2023 GAT will be held on Thursday 15th June. The GAT will measure literacy and numeracy skills, as well as continuing to support existing purposes including quality assurance for VCE assessments. The new standards will indicate whether students have demonstrated the literacy and numeracy skills typically expected of someone completing their secondary schooling – giving another indication of their readiness to move onto further education, training or employment.
As in all previous years, no special study will be required for the GAT. The GAT will be split into two sections – Sections A and B – to be conducted in separate sessions on the same day:
Section A will enable students to demonstrate their achievement against new standards of literacy and numeracy and will be administered in the morning session.
Section B will assess students’ skills, including English, mathematics, science, technology, the arts and humanities, and will be administered in the afternoon session.
All students enrolled in one or more VCE or scored VCE VET Unit 3–4 sequence are expected to sit both Sections A and B of the GAT. Senior VCE VM students are expected to sit Section A of the GAT. Students who complete Section A will receive a statement indicating if they have met the literacy and numeracy standards.
Sample questions and tasks indicative of questions in Section A of the GAT are now available on the VCAA website, at
Sample questions and tasks indicative of questions in Section B of the GAT are now available on the VCAA website, at