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THE YEAR 10 GUIDE • Victorian Tertiary Entrance Requirements for 2023

ABOUT VICTER 2023 • Published by VTAC for Year 10 students considering applying for tertiary study (University & TAFE) in 2023 • Year 10 Supplement of the Tertiary Entrance Guide 2023 in the Herald Sun Newspaper – Tuesday 21 st July Also on VTAC Website & Pathways Portal titled ‘Prerequisites for 2023’ • To help Year 10 students make informed choices about their Year 11 & 12 studies so that they can plan their pathways towards tertiary study • VICTER 2023 provides information about entrance requirements for courses commencing in 2023 in universities, TAFE providers & independent tertiary colleges that participate in the VTAC selection system.

ABOUT VICTER CONT. • Each participating institution has listed the courses it plans to offer in 2023. • For each course that has prerequisites, the institution lists the prerequisites and the selection criteria. • VICTER 2023 also lists courses for 2023 that do not have prerequisites including TAFE courses. These courses are listed under each institution. • Refer to Course. Search on www. vtac. edu. au or the Pathways Portal/‘Career Tools’ for a more extensive list of the type of courses available through VTAC.

TERMS & DEFINITIONS • ATAR: Australian Tertiary Admissions Rank • EAL: English as an Additional Language • GAT: General Achievement Test • LOTE: Language(s) other than English

TERMS & DEFINITIONS CONT. • Minimum ATAR: Some courses will specify a minimum ATAR as a prerequisite. An ATAR below the specified minimum means that you have not met the prerequisite for that particular course. • Prerequisite: Prerequisite studies are those VCE studies that you must have successfully completed in order to qualify for a course.

TERMS & DEFINITIONS CONT. • Study Score: A score from 0 -50, determined by the VCAA, which shows how you performed in a study. It is based on your results in school assessments and examinations. • TAFE: Technical & Further Education. Provide vocational based training courses from Certificate 11 V, Diploma & Advanced Diploma courses. Provides courses for young people preparing for their first job. May be a pathway into tertiary study.

TERMS & DEFINITIONS CONT. • VCAA: Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority. The body responsible for VCE studies (subjects). • VCAL: Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning. Vocational alternative to mainstream VCE. Applied Learning. Incorporates VET (Vocational Education & Training).

TERMS & DEFINITIONS CONT. • VCE: Victorian Certificate of Education • VET: Vocational Education & Training course. Industry based training, more hands on, practical training. Completing a TAFE Certificate 2 or 3 course while still at school, as part of VCE studies. May also contribute towards ATAR score. VCE & VCAL students may select a VET study

VET SUBJECTS WHICH MAY BE OFFERED IN OUR CLUSTER IN 2021 (GUIDE ONLY) • Allied Health Assistance* • Animal Studies • Applied Fashion Design & Technology • Automotive “Supported Program” • Aviation • Beauty Services • Bricklaying Pre-App • Carpentry Pre-App • Business* • Community Services* • Dance* • Early Childhood & Care • Electrotechnology Studies * Engineering Studies* • Furniture Making* • • • • Horticulture Hospitality “Supported Program”* IDMT (Coding) “Supported Program” Information, Digital Media & Technology* Kitchen Operations “Supported Program”* Laboratory Skills* Make-Up Music Industry (Performance)* Music Industry (Sound Production)* Plumbing Pre-App Screen & Media* Small Business Sport & Recreation* Visual Arts*

VET SCORED • Courses delivered in the cluster that are relevant to VCE scored assessment are: • • • • HLT 33015 Allied Health Assistance BSB 30115 Business CHC 32015 Community Services CUA 20113 Dance 22209 VIC Engineering Studies MSF 20516 Furnishing ICT 30115 Information, Digital Media and Technology MSL 30116 Laboratory Skills CUA 30915 Music (Performance) CUA 30915 Music (Sound Production) CUA 31015 Screen and Media SIS 30115 Sport and Recreation SIT 20416 Hospitality/Kitchen Operations

VET APPLICATIONS • Confirmed VCAL & VIP Students & interested VCE students will be contacted by Carol Mills to come into the College to complete their VET applications online • Process takes 30 – 45 minutes • Students need their USI numbers • Medicare Card

SCHOOL BASED APPRENTICESHIPS & TRAINEESHIPS • Students have the opportunity of completing an apprenticeship whilst completing their VCAL • SBAT’s take the place of doing a VET as they are employed part-time while completing the VET/TAFE qualification • Most students will attend school 3 days per week, one day at their place of training and one day per week employment • More opportunities available next year

TERMS & DEFINITIONS CONT. • VICTER 2023: Victorian Tertiary Entrance Requirements. Provides information about entrance requirements for courses commencing in a particular year (eg 2023) in Universities & TAFE institutes. • Year 10 Supplement in the Herald Sun Newspaper – Tuesday 21 st July • VTAC: Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre. Year 12 students apply to this body for entry into University & TAFE Certificate 1 V, Diploma and Advanced Diploma Courses. VTAC Course Search: an online tool for researching your tertiary study options.

VTAC YEAR 10 GUIDE • The VTAC Year 10 Guide publication available online (www. vtac. edu. au) NOW • The VTAC Year 10 Guide assists students in choosing senior secondary studies for the right reason. It contains information about researching tertiary education, choosing senior secondary subjects, and how the ATAR is calculated. • Continually updated • Follows on from work completed on the Year 10 Pathways Plan Careers Activities

VICTER 2023 • By this stage, students should have a list of jobs/careers they have an interest in/aptitude for • And for every job/career path a list of institutions which offer courses for that career (which they are prepared to go to). • Students must consider a range of career options as they may not get their first career preferences (3 -4)

VICTER 2023 • Universities, TAFE Providers & some Independent Tertiary Colleges (Private Providers) participate in the tertiary selection system administered by VTAC • Not all ITC’s are administered by VTAC • Universities: - Higher Education -3 -5 year courses -students qualify as professionals in their field - Commonwealth Supported Places (CSP). Courses subsidised by the government. Students only pay a portion of the course cost.

VICTER 2023 • TAFE PROVIDERS: - Diploma, Associate Diploma and Certificate 1 -1 V Courses - One or two year study, depending on the course - Students qualify as para-professionals in their field. May assist professionals in particular chosen field - May pathway into a University course (similar field) - TAFE courses are listed in VICTER 2023 but students advised to refer to TAFE COURSE DIRECTORY 2020. - Fees calculated based on the number of hours of enrolment and the category of the course.

VICTER 2023 • INDEPENDENT TERTIARY COLLEGES (ITC’s): - Private provider - Require an up-front fee - Very expensive - Between $5000 -$30, 000 annually(approx) - Students can access government Fee-Help programs for assistance with fees

MINIMUM TERTIARY ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS • TAFE (VOCATIONAL EDUCATION & TRAINING – VET): - Satisfactory completion of both the VCE and any Units 3 & 4 English (English, ESL, Literature or English Language) - or Senior VCAL • HIGHER EDUCATION (UNIVERSITY): - Satisfactory completion of both the VCE and Units 3 & 4 English (any). - Must have an ATAR score.

ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS CONT. Course Requirements: Many courses have additional requirements, which must be met, in the form of i. Prerequisite Studies ii. Extra Requirements • i. Prerequisite Studies: are subjects students must study to be considered for selection into a course. Most prerequisite are for Unit 3 & 4 subjects however some courses may require Unit 1 & 2 prerequisites which means that students must select these studies in Year 11 but do not have to continue them in Year 12. TAFE courses generally do not have prerequisite studies.

ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS CONT. ii. Extra Requirements: - many courses have extra requirements which must be met eg: presentation of a folio, attendance at an interview, performance interview or completion of an additional form - If these extra requirements are not met, applicants will not be considered for the course, no matter how high the ATAR score is.

HOW INSTITUTIONS SELECT APPLICANTS *Approx 50% of courses use a range of criteria that may include the ATAR as well as other factors such as interviews, folio presentations, pre-selection tests, additional forms, etc.

HOW INSTITUTIONS SELECT APPLICANTS • ATAR and Two-Stage Selection Process with a Middle-Band of 20%: - approx 80% of places in courses administered by VTAC are determined only by the ATAR - For the remaining 20% of places in these courses, additional information is considered for applicants whose ATAR is not high enough for guaranteed automatic selection, but have an ATAR above that which leads to automatic rejection.

HOW INSTITUTIONS SELECT APPLICANTS - These applicants are in the “middle-band” and are re-ranked according to additional criteria specified in individual course entries in the VTAC Guide. - These “middle-band” factors are used in addition to prerequisite studies and extra requirements to rank applicants in the middle-band. The top 20% of applicants are offered places in the course.

AUSTRALIAN TERTIARY ADMISSIONS RANK (ATAR) • Overall percentile ranking • Reflects a student’s comparative performance amongst the relevant age group in a given year • Calculated by VTAC solely for use by tertiary institutions • It is reported as a rank b/ween 0. 00 and 99. 95 with increments of 0. 05

AUSTRALIAN TERTIARY ADMISSIONS RANK (ATAR) • An ATAR of 75. 00 means that students with that ATAR have achieved VCE results that place them in the top 25% of the Year 12 age group in that given year. • VTAC calculates an ATAR for all students who satisfactorily completed their VCE, completed all outcomes & exams. However only those who apply through VTAC for tertiary courses will receive an ATAR statement. • To qualify for the ATAR a student must qualify for the VCE and achieve study scores in four permissible Unit 3 & 4 VCE studies, including one from the English group.

THE ATAR • Calculation of the ATAR: - Developed from an aggregate produced by adding the results for up to 6 studies (subjects) - Each study score out of 50 (determined by school based results and exam results in each study). This study score is scaled. - Students complete 5 to 6 subjects. Can do so over a number of years. - “Primary Four” subjects out of 50 plus 10% of 5 th and 6 th Subjects. - “Primary Four” subjects are the subjects counted first when creating an ATAR. English plus 3 other studies with the highest scaled score

THE ATAR - Before the scores of VCE studies can be added together for the ATAR, they need to be scaled to take account of the different abilities of the students taking different studies and the perceived difficulty of the subject. - Subjects are scaled up or down. - The VCE study score is not a score out of 50. It is a ranking or relative position showing a student’s performance compared with all other students who took that study in the same year.

THE ATAR - A student with a VCE study score of 30 is in the middle of the cohort, or has performed better than half the students in that study. - A student with a VCE study score of 40 has performed better than about 91% of all students who did that study. - The middle student in any study will have a VCE study score of 30

THE ATAR • Scaling cont. : - Languages Other Than English (LOTE) will receive additional scaling - Each LOTE is adjusted up by adding 5 to the initial ATAR subject score average

THE ATAR • VET Programs: - VET Programs that contribute to the VCE are used in the calculation of the ATAR - VCE VET Unit 3 & 4 sequences with scored assessment, study scores will be scaled and may be included in the calculation of the ATAR aggregate - VCE VET Unit 3 & 4 sequence with no scored assessment available, may be counted only as the 5 th or 6 th study. The increment will be 10% of the average of the Primary Four ATAR subject scores.

SELECTION • VTAC does not select applicants for courses • Selection is the responsibility of each institutions course selection authorities • VTAC is the central office that administers the application and offer process for places in tertiary courses at University, TAFE & ITC’s in Victoria and a few outside Victoria • VTAC receives and forwards application information and supporting documentation to the course selection authorities at institutions.

CRITERIA TO CONSIDER WHEN SELECTING YEAR 11 & 12 PROGRAMS • Choose the appropriate program for you eg VCE, VIP or VCAL, depending on your preferred career pathway • Students choosing VCE/VIP subjects should: 1: Choose subjects they like 2: Choose subjects they are good at or likely to be good at

CRITERIA CONT. 3: Choose subjects they need for the tertiary courses and careers/jobs/trades they have in mind. Pay particular attention to subject prerequisites and middle band selection information 4: Do not choose subjects just because they give you bonus points or are scaled up.

SELECTING SUBJECTS/PROGRAMS • Students to use VICTER 2023 • Students should have identified areas (jobs/careers) and tertiary institutions of interest – via Pathways Portal, ‘Career Tools’, etc • VICTER 2023 – courses are listed by institution and then alphabetically by course • For each job/career you have expressed an interest in, refer to the Institutions listed in the Bullseye Interactive Posters, VTAC Course. Search, ‘Career Tools’ as offering a course for that job/career. Go to that Institution in VICTER 2023

SELECTING SUBJECTS/PROGRAMS CONT. • From here you must refer to prerequisite subjects in Units 1 & 2 (if any are listed) and Units 3 & 4 and middle-band criteria • You must list all prerequisite subjects required for your courses/careers/jobs and middle-band selection criteria • It is from this list that you select your subjects for Year 11 (Units 1 & 2) and your Unit 3 & 4 subjects for Year 12.

SELECTING SUBJECTS/PROGRAMS CONT. • The Year 10 Pathways Plan Careers Activities must be completed as part of your Senior Years CAPS Plan • VIP & VCAL Selections • Consideration of VCE subjects • WEB Preferences Online Submissions

RESOURCES • Pathways Portal • ‘Career Tools online program • Year 10 Pathways Plan & Careers Activities • Pathway Interview • Self-Directed Search • My Future Testing • VICTER 2023 • VTAC Courselink Program (www. vtac. edu. au) • “Where to Now? ” Booklet • VTAC Year 10 Guide

RESOURCES • • • Virtual Careers Expo (May) Faculty Presentations Faculty Brochures Pathways Assemblies (3) Parent Information Evening (May) VCE & Beyond – Virtual Careers Expo (June) Faculty Subject Tasters – Year 10 into Year 11 Day (Wednesday 29 th July, Session 4 & Thursday 30 July, Sessions 1 – 4)) Friday 24 July – Wednesday 12 August: WEB Preferences Online Open Careers Teacher – Mrs. Karlovic Careers Reference Centre in Student Services Centre Appointments with Mrs. Karlovic

SUBJECT TASTERS • Faculty Subject Tasters – Year 10 into Year 11 Day • Wednesday 29 th July, Session 4 & Thursday 30 July, Sessions 1 – 4 • Conducted Online • Students to complete preferences at the end of this assembly

SUBJECT TASTERS SELECTING SUBJECTS FOR TASTER DAY ONLINE STEP ONE: * It will appear on Compass with a link to take students straight to the questions. - College Home Page - Compass/Student Link - Student does not need to type in Name - Click onto Insight Tab - Click onto ‘ 2020 Year 10 Subject Tasters - Select a subject per session that you are interested in, feel you will succeed in, require it for a Career Pathway based on your CAP Plan - Students interested in a VCAL Program, select the VCAL options - Please be realistic with your selections, discuss with Subject Teachers and refer to Year 11 & 12 Course Selection Handbook STEP TWO: - Taster Subject Teacher will send a Microsoft Teams invite to you for each subject, per session - Each student will have 5 Subject Taster invites: one for Wednesday 29 July & four for Thursday 30 July - Students must accept each Subject Taster invite - There will no Taster for English & VET STEP THREE: - Attend class online - Roll will be taken - Subject Taster will be conducted remotely, will be rigorous & a true representation of the subject as studied in Year 11 * At the end of this assembly, students to complete their Subject Taster Preferences Online

WEB PREFERENCES • Open Online: Friday 24 th July • WEB Preferences Due: Wednesday 12 th August

Each Student will receive their own form in an email that looks like this. Email will be sent to students on Friday 24 July at 8 am. Students will need to click this link that will take them to their own Web Preferences homepage. (don’t need to enter login details) Or Students can access their homepage by entering the login details.

When logged in, your page should look like this Click this link to view subjects details Click on the ‘Add New Preferences’ Tab to begin selecting your subjects

You have 30 minutes to complete your subject selection Subjects need to be selected in order from your most preferred subject listed in preference 1 to your least preferred subject.

Press the drop down arrow to show subjects available for selection Select a single one subject per drop down arrow

Click the link for subject details which is on the careers folder in the Pathways Portal Select preferred subjects for both semester one and two After selecting all of your preferred subjects, continue by pressing the ‘Proceed’ button

If you are ready to finalise and submit your subjects. Review your subjects making sure they are correct. Submit your preferences by selecting the ‘Submit Valid Preferences’

After you have submitted finalised preferences, you will come to this page Electronically sign your preferences page in the ‘Student Signature’ section provided below the finalised preferences

After you have signed, select the ‘Save Signature’ button. Then email the preferences to your parents in order for the parents to sign also This can be done by selecting the link located just below the ‘Student Signature’ box

Enter your parent or guardians email address and press ‘Ok’ Select ‘Submit Valid Preferences’

Student’s parent or guardian will receive an email that looks like this Student’s parent or guardian will need to select the link ‘Click Here’ to electronically sign the students Subject Preferences

Parent or guardian’s page will look like this Parent or guardian will need to electronically sign the preferences.

After signing off, select the ‘Save Signature’ button Select ‘Submit Signature’ button to complete the process. Exit by clicking “Log Out” End of steps.

FINALLY 1: Am I doing VCE? 2: Am I doing VCE with a scored VET study? 3: Am I doing VIP with a scored or non scored VET? 4: Or am I doing VCAL with a scored or non scored VET Study or SBAT?

QUESTIONS?