澳洲VCE即将取消6月份高考

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以为肯定有家长已经转过来了，看来还没有。

大意就是以前VCE accounting, biology, chemistry, environmental science, physics和 psychology 6个科目都是6月份考一次，11月份再考一次，各占33%。但是VCAA决定从2013年起，取消6月份考试，这几个科目改成11月份一次考试占66%，因为有些学校表示有6月份考试，学校时间安排比较麻烦。但评论中有不少学生对此持反对意见，说会增加年底考试的压力。

Mid-year VCE exams to be axed

MID-YEAR exams will be abolished in all VCE subjects from 2013 after schools complained they were disruptive and ate up too much time.

Since the VCE was introduced 19 years ago, mid-year exams have been held in accounting, biology, chemistry, environmental science, physics and psychology.

The results of the June exams contribute up to 33 per cent of students' final marks in these subjects.
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However, Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority chief executive officer John Firth said principals had called for changes given less than half of VCE students did subjects that had mid-year exams.

''Principals have been saying the school year is very tight and lots of students don't have mid-year exams but everything stops for those who do,'' Mr Firth said.

He said from 2013 exams for all VCE students would be aligned.

Under the changes there will be a 2½-hour exam in November in biology, chemistry, physics and psychology. Two-thirds of students' scores will be based on their exam results and one-third on their school-assessed coursework.

In accounting and environmental science there will be a two-hour exam at the end of the year, which will make up half of students' results.

Tim O'Neill, who did VCE at Sunshine College this year, said scrapping mid-year exams would put more pressure on students, who would be tested on a full year's work in November, rather than only six months.

The final exam would also contribute 66 per cent to overall scores, rather than 33 per cent.

Tim said sitting mid-year exams in biology and psychology prepared him for the final exams and made him feel more optimistic.

''You know what you are in for at the end of the year,'' he said.

However, Ringwood Secondary College principal Michael Phillips supported the changes because teachers would not have to suspend their teaching program to enable students to revise for mid-year exams.

He said the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority needed to look at other ways of improving VCE assessments.

Meanwhile, the authority has published an apology in its latest bulletin to Melbourne writer Helen Razer for ''our failure to acknowledge her moral rights as author of an article that was adapted for use in the 2011 VCE English examination''.

The English exam featured an Age column on tattoos by Ms Razer without her permission and falsely attributed the article to ''part-time journalist and blogger Helen Day'', who wrote for the blog ''Street Beat''.

''We apologise for failing to attribute her as the source of the article, for falsely attributing authorship and for making changes to her original article without her authorisation,'' the apology says.

''The VCAA Board and CEO have commissioned an external review of its procedures for using published works in all examinations in the future.''

http://www.theage.com.au/nationa ... 20111213-1ot8f.html

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才知道，这个也可以有？  

而且在悉尼，不同学校的老师可能会先交不同的部分，很难有一致的进度。
而且才半年也没学多少就考一次也不太值

顺便问一下，大约有多少Year11学生提前考几科的VCE啊？ 貌似这个在Vic很流行， NSW只有少数人才能accelerate考HSC的某一（些）学科

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主要是那几个科目，比如物理化学，学的不同topic之间的关联不太大。比如我那时物理12年级上学期是声学电磁学之类，下学期基本就是力学能量。6月份把上学期学的考完了，以后就再也不用想了。11月份只考下学期学的，复习压力小很多。

还有11年级学生提前考VCE - 因为VCE算分的是6门 - 前4门算100%，后两门算10%。但很多学校不允许12年级读6科，说压力太大。所以想把分拿满了，就要10年级就提前学一门，11年级考。这样12年级考5门就行了。

留学生一般都是11年级上中文学校考Chinese First Language. Local有比如提前考一门数学的。

不过提前考试这个也是有大志的学生才做。很多人不追求读6门，就没必要了。

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而且像墨尔本有SEAL program的学校，4年初中压成3年之后，大部分学生都选择读3年VCE，而不是按正常进度读2年VCE早毕业一年。所以他们提前考的VCE就更多了。很多人最后一共考了7，8门。

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谢谢解答

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这个意思是不是就是说有多一年学习VCE考试的课程？

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是的，可以把4年初中+2年VCE 变成3年初中+3年VCE。

关于SEAL program这里写得更具体。
http://www.education.vic.gov.au/ ... ed/seal/default.htm

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不过看了一下那个list, 现在真是什么学校都开始搞这个。Dandenong HS和Lilydale HS这样的也上榜了

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thanks for sharing
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