VCE

Choosing your VCE program

The VCE
A VCE program is the complete list of VCE units undertaken by a student. The curriculum at Carey is very broad and allows students to complete their VCE program over Years 10, 11 and 12.

Completing your VCE
Although there is the opportunity to study VCE units within the Year 10 course, the major component of the VCE is undertaken when students are in Years 11 and 12.

Students who

• have been on an extended exchange overseas
• have suffered significant illness
• are engaged in sport at an elite level, or who for other legitimate reasons wish to extend their VCE studies

often choose to undertake a 'Year 13'. There is no penalty for undertaking the VCE over more than two years although tertiary institutions may re-rank applicants for some courses if a student completes their VCE over a longer period than the standard two years. 

How many units are studied?
Generally Carey students complete a program which consists of between 23 and 26 units.

What are the minimum requirements to qualify for the VCE?

Students are required to satisfactorily complete

• a minimum of 16 semester length units
• at least three units from the English Group
• Units 1 and 2 English, English as a Second Language, English Language or Literature
  and 
• Units 3 and 4 English, English as a Second Language, English Language or Literature
  
• a sequence of Units 3 and 4 in three studies apart from the compulsory English.

Note: Students must satisfactorily complete four Unit 3 and 4 sequences, including Units 3 and 4 of an English study, in order to be eligible for an ENTER score.

Although the VCAA no longer imposes a penalty for repeating a VCE study, tertiary institutions may re-rank applicants for some courses if a student has repeated a VCE study.

Enter Score

ENTER Scores are calculated by ranking students on the sum of their scaled study score for English (English as a Second Language. English Language or English Literature) their next best three permissible scaled study scores and ten percent of the scaled study score of up to two more subjects.

Only two Mathematics subjects, LOTE, English or VET subjects will be included in calculating a student's primary four subjects. A third subject (VCE or University Extension Study) in any of these areas may be included as a fifth or sixth subject. A University Extension Studies will only be included if it is a sixth subject.

Note: some tertiary courses specify certain subjects which must be studied and or included in the 'primary four' scores used to calculate a student's ENTER.