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Quick Answer VCE Specialist Maths Exam 1 (Monday 9 November) is a 40-mark, technology-free paper, and Exam 2 (Wednesday 11 November) is an 80-mark paper where a CAS calculator is allowed. In the final four weeks, use the first two to close topic gaps and the last two to sit timed papers and fix the

The 2026 VCE English exam is on Tuesday 27 October at 9:00 am. In the three weeks left, spend week 1 finding and fixing your weakest section, week 2 drilling each section under time, and week 3 sitting one full 3-hour paper, then polishing instead of learning new content.

Term 4 starts on Monday 5 October, and English opens the written exam period. That leaves about three weeks to turn what you already know into marks. This guide from RL Education, a Melbourne-based VCE and IB tutoring centre with campuses in Box Hill and Melbourne CBD, shows what to do each week and what to practise for each of the three sections.

Quick Answer The Principal’s Discretion Category (PDC) is a small, separate pathway (up to 5% of places) that Victoria’s four Selective Entry High Schools use to offer places beyond the standard merit round. For 2026, PDC interview invitations went out on 18 September, and interviews will be held 5–14 October 2026, with successful candidates notified

Quick Answer The Term 3 break (21 September to 2 October 2026) sits in the exact middle of your final six weeks before VCE written exams begin on 26 October. The most effective students don’t use it to “finish the syllabus.” They use it to sit one full practice exam, target their weakest topics with

Quick Answer A 40+ VCE Chemistry study score comes from consistent performance across both SACs and the end-of-year exam, not from cramming before the exam. Chemistry rewards students who can apply concepts to unfamiliar contexts (not just recall definitions), because roughly two-thirds of exam marks test application, calculation and data analysis rather than straight recall.

Quick Answer Your child’s AMC certificate shows two things: an award level (Participation, Proficiency, Credit, Distinction, High Distinction, or a Prize/Medal) and a raw score ranked against their year level and region. The award level is what matters most for scholarship panels and selective school assessors, not the raw number. Schools typically receive digital results

Quick Answer Take Maths Methods if you’re aiming for most STEM, commerce, health or computing degrees and want strong scaling without the heaviest workload. Add Specialist Maths only if your child is already comfortable in Methods, is targeting engineering, actuarial studies, physics or a highly competitive quantitative degree, and can realistically handle two demanding maths

Eligibility for VCE Chinese Second Language, Chinese Second Language Advanced, and English as an Additional Language (EAL) is decided by how many years a student has spent being educated in Chinese or English, not by where they currently live or how they feel about the subject, get the years wrong and VCAA can reclassify the

Quick Answer Trial exams don’t count toward your ATAR, but they are the single best predictor of your real VCE Specialist Maths and Math Methods exam performance, treat a low trial score as a diagnostic tool, not a verdict, and use the six weeks before the October 26–November 18 written exam period to target the