2024 VCE Performance and Languages oral examination and Extended Investigation oral presentation schedule

Principals/Directors, VCE coordinators and VCE performing arts studies, VCE Languages and VCE Extended Investigation teachers

Schools must advise (via the survey) of significant school-based events and/or religious observation events that require student attendance for all or a significant part of a day within the assessment period (Monday 7 October to Monday 28 October, and Saturday 2 to Sunday 3 November 2024).

This information is used to timetable VCE Unit 3-4 performance examinations, Languages oral examinations and Extended Investigation oral presentations.

Please complete the survey by Thursday 2 May.

Significant school-based events

These may include final year assemblies or graduation ceremonies. Schools can nominate one school-based event day only as unavailable for timetabling. Students may be timetabled either side of the nominated day.

Religious observation events

These include days where students, due to religious holidays, beliefs and practices, are not able to attend an examination. Schools can nominate more than one day in this category, if applicable.

The VCAA will assume student availability during the assessment period is unrestricted, unless advised. Student rescheduling for examinations will not be possible if we do not receive advice by Thursday 2 May.

Indicative progress descriptions (revised)

The Victorian Curriculum F–10 has been designed as a continuum of learning, with achievement standards provided at the end of a level or more typically, at the end of a band of levels. As students progress along the curriculum, indicative progress descriptions can assist teachers to describe what student progress looks like between achievement standards. Such a description of a student's progression of learning may be useful to a teacher when they need to assess and report on students' learning progress when they are only partially through teaching the level and hence the student is still working towards the level Achievement Standard.

To assist teachers to develop their own indicative progress descriptions, the VCAA has provided an indicative progress template that includes an annotated example, a curriculum-specific example of indicative progress and a template prepopulated with the curriculum-specific achievement standards.

Intercultural Capability indicative progress template

If you need this information in an accessible format such as large print or audio, contact the F-10 Unit:

vcaa.f10.curriculum@education.vic.gov.au