The VCE at Camberwell Grammar School Year 11 Information Evening

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The VCE at Camberwell Grammar School Year 11
Information Evening

• Mr. Dayan Ramalingam
• Year Eleven VCE coordinator

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The VCE Office Staff

• Mr Ramalingam dr_at_cgs.vic.edu.au Year 11, Units
  1 2
• Mr Hutton plh_at_cgs.vic.edu.au Year 12, Units 3
  4
• Mrs Martin VCE administration
• Counselling Staff
• Mrs Clarke (pmc)
• Mrs Larn (Careers) (kel)
• Mr Double (Learning Support) (pkd)

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Handouts

• Please check you have
• Student VCE Details (white sheet)
• VCE Student Manual (named)
• VCE Assessment Rules (green sheet)
• Noteworthy dates for Year 11 students
• Relevant to Unit 3 and 4 students only
• Student Authority to Publish Results and
  Placements (yellow sheet)
• VCE Assessment Dates (orange sheet)

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Key Dates

• These dates are in the school diary
• Parent/Teacher Interviews 13th Mar, 28th Aug
• Semester 1 Examinations 5th to 13th June
• (including Unit 3 4 Accounting Biology)
• GAT (all Unit 3 4 students) June 14th
• Year 12 Information Evening July 18th
• Semester 2 Examinations
• Unit 1 2 22nd to 29th November
• Unit 3 4 2nd to 22nd November

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Keep the VCE Office informed

• Changes of subjects at mid-year
• Physical disability or impairment
• Protracted illnesses
• Changes of address, other details
• Problems in keeping up with the demands of a
  subject

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Special Provisions

• Applies to most instances of
• Long term illness
• Physical or learning disability
• Environment
• A formal interview may be needed
• Evidence must be supplied

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VCE Student Details

• White sheet
• Please read carefully and CHECK
• Sign and date, and return as you leave the
  auditorium tonight
• Please note on the form any questions or
  alterations
• ESL students will be enrolled in English in Year
  11
• sample VCE details form.doc

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Keeping You Informed

• Daily notices
• Weekly Bulletin
• VCE Office
• School Diary
• School Intranet

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Assistance is available

• Head of House and Tutor
• Mr Ramalingam and Mr Hutton
• Study organisation skills/Counselling
• Mrs Clarke
• Study support Mr Double
• Careers and courses Mrs Larn is happy to meet
  with any parent/student this evening. Students
  can make appointments to see her before or after
  school, recess or lunchtimes.
• Careers library university handbooks, etc
• VTAC guides, Jobguides in the VCE Office,
  Courselink programme

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Assistance House Role

• Your Tutor regularly monitors your progress.
  Record books
• Communication between school and home.
• First point of contact for parents with the
  school.
• Provides opportunities to show leadership.

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Study Skills

• Weekly planners are available from the VCE Office
• Courses on how to study conducted by VCE Office
  and counsellors upon approach
• Homework and Study up to 3 hours per night.
• A well-rounded approach. Exercise, co-curricular
  activities, diet, sleep, fun.
• Organise your time
• Diary
• planner

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Outline of the Year 11 VCE

• Seven subjects (14 units)
• One must be an English group subject (Lit, Lang,
  English or ESL)
• May include a Unit 3 4 subject

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Outcomes

• Each Unit (Semesters study) of a subject has a
  number of Learning Outcomes which must be met
• There will be a number of assessment tasks used
  to test that the Learning Outcome has been
  achieved
• All Learning Outcomes must be satisfactorily
  completed for the unit to count towards the VCE

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UNIT 1 Mathematics
Learning Outcome 1 Learning Outcome 2 Learning
Outcome 3
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UNIT 1 Mathematics
Learning Outcome 1 Assessment task/s Learning
Outcome 2 Assessment task/s Learning Outcome
3 Assessment task/s
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UNIT 1 Mathematics
Learning Outcome 1 Assessment task/s ? Learning
Outcome 2 Assessment task/s ? Learning Outcome
3 Assessment task/s ?
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UNIT 1 Mathematics
Learning Outcome 1 Assessment task/s ? Learning
Outcome 2 Assessment task/s ? Learning Outcome
3 Assessment task/s ? Satisfactory Completion
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Non-satisfactory Completion

• As set out in the VCE Rules (green)
• Work is below an acceptable standard
• Work is not your own, or you have helped someone
  else to cheat
• Work is not submitted by the deadline without an
  approved extension (computer failure is not a
  valid reason)
• ?NON-SATISFACTORY COMPLETION OF THE OUTCOME

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Non-satisfactory Completion

• Unsatisfactory completion of the outcome means
  unsatisfactory completion of the unit
• This subject can not count towards your VCE
• Your final report from the VCAA will show the
  subject as unsatisfactorily completed

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Non-satisfactory Completion

• Redemption of an Outcome that is unsatisfactory
  may be granted to enable a student to get
  Satisfactory for the unit, but the original
  grade will still stand. This rule also applies
  in Year 12.

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Assessment of Unit 1 2 Subjects

• Satisfactory Completion is reported to the VCAA
  as S or N
• Internal assessments are reported to students and
  parents mid and end of year reports, plus two
  progress assessments every semester (these are
  not reported to the VCAA)

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Assessment of Unit 1 2 Subjects

• The maintenance of academic infrastructure is
  essential. Care taken to maintain laptops, backup
  of work done, email accounts is imperative
• Year 11 students should not favour their Unit 3
  and 4 subjects at the expense of their Unit 1 and
  2 subjects.

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Assessment of Unit 1 2 Subjects

• Semester 1 examinations are used to
• consider a students suitability to continue a
  course of study
• The Year 12 subject selection process starts in
  July. Timely completion of this process is
  imperative because changing subjects at the start
  of Year 12 can be problematic.

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Assessment of Unit 3 4 Subjects

• Satisfactory completion same as for Unit 1 2
  subjects
• Study Score a mixture of
• coursework (done in class, and assessed within
  the school) and
• external examinations (mid and/or end of year,
  assessed by the VCAA)
• A study score is a students rank amongst his
  peers and not a mark

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Raw study score

• A raw study score is out of 50
• Let us say all papers are marked and then stacked
  with the highest mark on top and the lowest mark
  at the bottom

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Raw study score 2

• All the papers are then stacked with the highest
  marked paper on the right and the lowest paper on
  the left

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Ranks not marks

• The top ranked student receives 50 and the middle
  ranked students (tallest column) receives 30

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Raw study score

• By design, 30 is the middle score (median) and
  the top 8 receive above 40

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GAT A statistical calibration tool

• GAT General Achievement Test English,
  Mathematics and general knowledge
• Used to check Study scores and calculate a
  derived examination score
• Held during mid year examination period
• Every student studying a Unit 3 4 subject must
  sit this
• It is in your interest to try your best and it
  must betaken seriously.

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Forms to be handed in

• VCE Student details (white)
• Authority to Publish Results and Placements
  (yellow)
• VCE Rules sheet (green)
• Please deposit the forms in the boxes by the doors

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Year 11 Information Evening

• Tea and coffee are now being served in the foyer.
  
• We will be here to respond to any particular
  questions you may have.