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VCE – Tips & Help
Here are a few helpful links to help you with your study:
- VCE Help – Free VCE resources (subjects, podcasts etc) - vcehelp
- Ask a VCE question & get an answer (thanks to James for this link!) – merspi
- GAT – General Achievement Test practice questions vcaa
- Smog Calculator – use this for your English Essays – it will rate your work for you… if this link doesn’t work then try googling “Smog Calculator” – http://www.harrymclaughlin.com/SMOG.htm
- Vic Uni conduct a FREE VCE Lecture Series, this consists of preparatory lectures designed to assist Year 12 students in getting ready for their Year 12 assessments. Lectures are offered free of charge and are delivered by qualified VCE assessors and teachers. To check out dates, venues and times (and also to enrol) click on: Vic Uni.
- Folio Preparation
- Many Uni’s run courses during school holidays to help you prepare your art folios. The following links will take you to the relevant ‘post’ for: RMIT,
- Looking for an easy to read and current directory for undergraduate courses available throughout Australia, your Career’s Advisor may have a copy you can borrow, but the directoryundergraduate can be purchased (April onwards). You can order the current edition by: email coyte@grad.com.au, fax: 0299497130 phone: 0299492686 or by post: The Graduate Connection, PO Box 172, Balgowlah 2093.
- RMIT Get Real Program details (for Science / Engineering buffs) click here.
Revision Programs
- To help you get the edge there are a number of companies who assist with lectures and notes for specific subjects as well as overall success in VCE… costs involved…. visit our Revision Programs Page.
Helpful Study Sites:
- Studying Legal Studies or Politics? Learn more about the basics of the Australian Constitutional Framework by exploring the new website ‘The Gist of it’. This website has been developed by La Trobe University Law Student Hugh Crosthwaite in partnership with Liberty Victoria, Amnesty Australian, the Australian Lawyers Alliance and the Missen Foundation.
Tutoring by LaTrobe Students/Graduates
La Trobe University Melbourne is an internationally recognised leading research university with campuses in Melbourne, Bendigo, Shepparton, Albury Wodonga and Mildura, offering 450 undergraduate and postgraduate courses across five faculties. The University has an official web-based jobs search facility called CareerHub, you might be able to find yourself a tutor (it’s amazing what can happen with Skype these days!) by visiting http://www.latrobe.edu.au/careers/employers/tutoring.html. The site also includes tips on suggested pay rates. If you have questions, or require assistance contact Career Development Centre 03 9479 1373 or careers@latrobe.edu.au.
Miscellaneous Useful sites:
- The majority of students will need to visit Centrelink: www.centrelink.gov.au
- An excellent site which as alot of stuff you need to know about going to Uni is: www.goingtouni.gov.au
- Need to find out whether you need your own Medicare Card? www.medicareaustralia.gov.au
- Do you have a Tax File Number? You should apply before leaving school as the application process is far simpler… www.ato.gov.au
- Voting – your democratic right: www.aec.gov.au
- Lot’s of information about what happens after Year 12 at: Year 12 What Next? www.year12whatnext.gov.au


