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VCE Guide 2024
Expert tips to help you do your best in this year’s exams, plus meet the students doing Year 12 differently.
Selfies, ‘spacing’ and support: how to de-stress the VCE
From motivational WhatsApp groups to managing sleep routines, students share their tips for making VCE exams a less daunting and stressful experience.
- Anders Furze
Two days a week, Lavena swaps schoolwork for metalwork
No ATAR, no problem: more Year 12 students than ever before are combining their studies with vocational training like apprenticeships.
- Elissa Doherty
‘Section A is vital’: how VCE assessors mark exams
VCE exams can be intimidating, but they are deliberately designed to give students the chance to show off their learning.
- Anders Furze
In year 12 and nearly out of puff? These tips will get you to the finish line
Looking after yourself, getting lots of sleep and having a study system will help keep you on track.
- Anders Furze
$45,000 savings and a dream job: how Hannah did Year 12
If it hadn’t been for the chance to take a non-traditional route at school, Hannah Valenti’s life may have turned out differently.
- Elissa Doherty
Your A+ guide to the VCE: key questions answered
Know your SAT from your GAT with this handy guide to all things VCE.
- Anders Furze
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How does scaling work and why does it matter? The ATAR explained
3-5%+2b x (have absolutely no idea) = ATAR. How, exactly, is the ATAR calculated?
- Taylor Dent
Practically perfect in every way: The students kicking honour roll goals
Krishav Malhotra achieved the highest number of perfect VCE study scores this year, in English, physics and two types of maths.
- Robyn Grace, Craig Butt and Daniel Cash
They flunked or got ‘nightmare’ ATARs. Now they’re CEOs and master’s grads
After failing year 10, Justin Giddings failed TAFE – twice. By 35, he was the chief executive of Avalon Airport.
- Sherryn Groch, Robyn Grace and Emma Koehn
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Schools that Excel 2024
Celebrating Victorian schools that have improved their end-of-year VCE performance over the past decade.
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