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sitting exams without power and/or having to reschedule exams when one of their class mates become Covid-19 positive, they also have had to deal with their whole family being at home whilst they tried to study, the distractions that surrounded them e.g. Fortnite, parents with reduced work or losing their jobs, increased suicides amongst their peers, and so on. It is amazing that these young adults, who have managed to complete their VCE’s, have done so at all.
for the VCE is usually completed over two years but can be spread over a longer period of time in some cases e.g., 3 years.
By Warren Strybosch
The Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) was established as a pilot project in 1987. The earlier Higher School Certificate (HSC) was abolished in 1992. There was about 5 schools trialling the pilot program in Victoria and I was attending one of those at the time.
It could easily be argued that these last two years of VCE would have been one of the toughest two years on record since it started 34 years ago.
The VCE is one credential available to secondary school students who successfully complete year 11 and 12 in the Australian state of Victoria. ... Study
Not only did students have to deal with close to 300 days of lockdown, online schooling, the General Achievement Test (GAT) being postponed four times,
We, at the Find Knox want to wish all VCE’s students all the best for their exams and hope that the next four or five years, whether it is studying at Uni, taking a gap year and then studying, or simply going into the workforce, is better than the two years you have just lived through. We are thinking of you all as you complete your exams and hope you get the results you want to get into your desired course. If you do not, I can attest, as someone who has failed VCE and now has 7 qualifications under their belt, including a post grad, that there are many and varied pathways into university. Life does not end when VCE finishes…in fact, it is just the beginning of your journey through adulthood.
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