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National Education => Tuition Companies and Services => Tuition and Education Services => VCE (and related) Businesses => Topic started by: ell on September 09, 2008, 09:23:20 pm

Title: Question about VATE pricing
Post by: ell on September 09, 2008, 09:23:20 pm
Here is the page: http://www.vate.org.au/vate.nsf/EventDetailsEn/9F65F671C603FC1BCA2574890015856D

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Online booking   £35.00
Paper/office booking   £50.00

Pounds?? They mean dollars right?
Title: Re: Question about VATE pricing
Post by: ed_saifa on September 09, 2008, 09:27:00 pm
The friend had this problem. It appears in $ for me.
Title: Re: Question about VATE pricing
Post by: ell on September 09, 2008, 09:30:14 pm
The friend had this problem. It appears in $ for me.

Oh cool. Yeah I printed the invoice and it was like 71 pounds (154 AUD!).
Title: Re: Question about VATE pricing
Post by: Mao on September 09, 2008, 09:41:41 pm
beware: 10% surcharge for credit card payments :P
Title: Re: Question about VATE pricing
Post by: ell on September 09, 2008, 09:48:35 pm
beware: 10% surcharge for credit card payments :P

lol, yeah - it's still better than the $50 you have to pay if you pay via paper/office booking!
Title: Re: Question about VATE pricing
Post by: clinton_09 on September 09, 2008, 09:50:22 pm
lol pounds
Title: Re: Question about VATE pricing
Post by: excal on September 23, 2008, 01:23:41 am
They must love (the) English so much.
Title: VATE Ticket Error
Post by: ell on September 25, 2008, 05:35:42 pm
So yeah, I received "Breanna" and "Bethany"'s VATE ticket by accident, haha.

For those of you who got emailed an incorrect ticket like I did:

http://www.vate.org.au/
"Student Revision Days : English Day Tickets emailed 25/9/08 were incorrect. Please ignore
the email sent to you and the CORRECT ticket details will be emailed to you
next week."

Title: Re: Question about VATE pricing
Post by: bubbles on September 25, 2008, 06:22:30 pm
lol and i got "Chantelle." Hmm i wonder who received my ticket. I was about to call VATE until i saw this post, thanks Ell  ;)
Title: Re: Question about VATE pricing
Post by: bridgethuss on September 25, 2008, 06:27:20 pm
wow thats weird, well mine came out ok!
has anyone ever been to a VATE session before? im pretty excited for this lit one, but curious as i have only just heard of them!
Title: Re: Question about VATE pricing
Post by: polky on September 25, 2008, 06:28:04 pm
Hahah I got Becky's :D  I emailed them but they didn't reply, thanks for informing us, ell!
Title: Re: Question about VATE pricing
Post by: Ken on September 29, 2008, 12:11:52 pm
don't tell me the entry ticket is the whole email itself and we have to print it out?!?!
Title: Re: Question about VATE pricing
Post by: Mao on September 29, 2008, 01:45:00 pm
oh wow, i actually received my own, quite amazing.

Ken: that would be the case, i think many providers are moving that way, because they already have you in their database. this works similarly to how e-ticketing works for flights.
Title: Re: Question about VATE pricing
Post by: Ken on September 29, 2008, 09:00:28 pm
lol if you had the photoshop skills, you can just use someone's ticket and make it your own :P (I don't think they will waste time for a roll call)
Title: Re: Question about VATE pricing
Post by: Mao on September 29, 2008, 09:05:04 pm
nah, you have to "check in" at the front. they've got everyone whom they've issued the ticket to on a database. =]
Title: Re: Question about VATE pricing
Post by: ed_saifa on September 29, 2008, 09:18:38 pm
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Please bring a copy of your texts

Won't everyone have different texts? (for english language)
Title: Re: Question about VATE pricing
Post by: ell on September 29, 2008, 10:26:14 pm
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Please bring a copy of your texts

Won't everyone have different texts? (for english language)

They probably just used 'texts' to refer to the novels used in English/Lit, not the actual textbooks (which is what I think your thinking of? or are there actual texts studied in Eng Lang?)
Title: Re: Question about VATE pricing
Post by: Mao on September 29, 2008, 10:54:12 pm
no, there's not texts.

though I'd bring the textbook anyways =]

[OH, and that Insight Exam Guide, and all the past papers.... mmm]
Title: Re: Question about VATE pricing
Post by: Ken on September 30, 2008, 05:32:09 pm
for english, they tell u to go straight to the first session where a person will check your ticket without 'signing in' so like i said before, u can still use some photoshop haxx :P
Title: Re: Question about VATE pricing
Post by: AppleThief on September 30, 2008, 06:36:52 pm
no, there's not texts.

though I'd bring the textbook anyways =]

[OH, and that Insight Exam Guide, and all the past papers.... mmm]
Do you use the Heinemann textbook? (that's the only in-print one I know of). I find it basically useless.
Title: Re: Question about VATE pricing
Post by: xox.happy1.xox on September 30, 2008, 09:03:16 pm
Lol, yay, we used to have pounds in Australia. They must have forgotten to update their website from about 20-30 years ago. ;)
Title: Re: Question about VATE pricing
Post by: *Roxxii* on September 30, 2008, 10:10:40 pm
Has bookings for Vate closed?
I got onto the booking thing a couple of days ago, but today when i checked, i couldn't find the link anymore :(
If i cant book for it, what would happen if i just rocked up on the day? :P lol
Title: Re: Question about VATE pricing
Post by: Mao on October 01, 2008, 11:00:48 am
give them a call...?
Title: Re: Question about VATE pricing
Post by: *Roxxii* on October 01, 2008, 06:13:43 pm
LOL LOL... good idea :P
Title: VATE Revision Day
Post by: ell on October 11, 2008, 04:40:48 pm
So who went to the VATE Revision Day today and what sessions did you attend?

I went to 'Whose Reality?' during the second session (which wasn't too bad) and Language Analysis B for the third. The language analysis was a complete mess, someone screamed and left the theatre near the end I think (couldn't really see too well but I heard it). The lecturer had enough and told us to go, there was still a good 7-8 minutes left. :-\
Title: Re: Question about VATE pricing
Post by: costargh on October 11, 2008, 04:50:58 pm
LOL why did they scream?
Title: Re: Question about VATE pricing
Post by: ell on October 11, 2008, 05:01:37 pm
lol I reckon they'd had enough of her (she was a bit uptight at the beginning), we were all just looking at each other thinking what the hell just happened :D
Title: Re: Question about VATE pricing
Post by: m08 on October 11, 2008, 05:38:58 pm
So who went to the VATE Revision Day today and what sessions did you attend?

I went to 'Whose Reality?' during the second session (which wasn't too bad) and Language Analysis B for the third. The language analysis was a complete mess, someone screamed and left the theatre near the end I think (couldn't really see too well but I heard it). The lecturer had enough and told us to go, there was still a good 7-8 minutes left. :-\

i was in that session! i thought it was rude how she just stopped and had this pissy face and told us to leave
Title: Re: Question about VATE pricing
Post by: ell on October 11, 2008, 05:57:27 pm
i was in that session! i thought it was rude how she just stopped and had this pissy face and told us to leave

Yeah, absolutely! Where were you sitting? Did you manage to see what happened?
Title: Re: Question about VATE pricing
Post by: m08 on October 11, 2008, 06:08:51 pm
i was sitting on the side closest to the door in the middle'ish area, and some guys (i presume they were guys kos they sounded like guys) opened the door and started yelling and then ran off. from where the lecturer was standing she probably saw who they were but i didnt see just saw the door open and close
Title: Re: Question about VATE pricing
Post by: ReVeL on October 11, 2008, 06:29:07 pm
Wow haha I went to Language Analysis in the third session, 1:15-2:15.

A guy named Ryan something ran it and he was reallllly helpful and insightful, and gave good tips and advice on how to write a LA piece.

Seems some of you got the raw end which sucks.
Title: Re: Question about VATE pricing
Post by: jsimmo on October 11, 2008, 07:17:56 pm
I went to Language Analysis C (first session), LBW and Encountering Conflict.

The guy who ran LBW was brilliant.. Overall I thought today was really good and worth it.

Who was the lady who just stopped the lecture?
Title: Re: Question about VATE pricing
Post by: m08 on October 11, 2008, 08:34:28 pm


Who was the lady who just stopped the lecture?

janny mccurry
Title: Re: Question about VATE pricing
Post by: Ken on October 11, 2008, 10:48:05 pm
I went to Language Analysis C (first session), LBW and Encountering Conflict.

The guy who ran LBW was brilliant.. Overall I thought today was really good and worth it.


Yeh was that LBW the 3rd session? the guy was pretty awesome!
Title: Re: Question about VATE pricing
Post by: memka on October 12, 2008, 11:03:00 pm
I went to:
Session 1: Language Analysis - was pretty good.
Session 2: Identity & Belonging - lecturer basically just read out his slides so less good
Session 3: Kite Runner - pretty good but everyone was getting a bit bored by the end.