VCE Notes Petition to VCAA, re: change to timetabling policy.

[Eriny]

true that. Although a collaborative effort would probably get the job done. That said, it seems kind of unnecessary. I was just entertaining the idea of VCE Notes being a student force which was able to exercise some power over the VCAA. Kind of like a union or something. How awesome would that be? Anyway, sending letters to newspapers could be a good idea as well, and maybe members of the state government.

[enwiabe]

We should never have power over VCAA. That would be terrible. In terms of being a force, it'd be nice if it could be a tool to express student sentiment. The goal is not to intimidate VCAA but rather to express the collective dismay of the student body and hope that it makes the correct decision.

[Eriny]

I just meant having some power, not sovereignty. Because youth in general are pretty powerless, particularly under 18s.

[brendan]

Kind of like a union or something.

lol like a student union...

[excal]

Kind of like a union or something.

lol like a student union...

LOL. I was expecting you to come, guns ablaze, 'it's your choice if you want to do VCE....stuff stuff...if you don't like the rules then you have a choice not to do it...'

In all seriousness / back on-topic, it is quite harsh that a student should have to sit 3 exams...but what do you propose of those who decide to cheat the system and find out the examination contents for the supplementary exam from their peers? Perhaps we should adopt a system, like at uni, where the supplementary paper is different from the original paper. Of course that will raise questions as 'what if that exam is easier/harder', but can you suggest anything better? That they're supervised until the next day? Heh. Sounds very 1984 to me.

Besides, a person's performance on the exam is based around their knowledge on unknown sets of questions. Is it truly fair to say that an exam is 'easier/harder' as much as it is to say that 'all students will find this exam easy/hard'? Each student comes into the exam room with a different skill set, and so the perception of easy and hard is most likely normally distributed in both regular and supplementary examinations (as are the results, typically).

What I'm trying to say is, basically, you walk into the exam room with a element of 'luck' (ok, so it's predetermined, but you don't know what's on the exam). You may be weak in some areas, but stronger in others. You don't know what's on the exam paper - you may get something hard, you may get something easy - to YOU. So what difference does it make if a *different* exam was set for these students? From the student's perspective, the exam contents are unknown and 'random'.

Also, I don't see why VCAA would change their stance unless someone had messed up with their system...or there was reasonable suspicion (and quite rightly so, given it's the VCE) that people were using the extra time to their advantage.

[Collin Li]

I don't see why VCAA can't delay results day by a few days (or make marking results speedier and more efficient) and spread out the exam timetable further.

I'm sure it wouldn't affect VTAC affairs too much.

[beezy4eva]

3 exams in one day is way too much stress for one person. VCAA are just assholes

[Saraime2003]

AHHH! whats happening with this? was it used this year for 08's end of year exams? because i ahve to sit my exams at the end of next year and now i'm getting paranoid. So what happened with this angry email? and what about VCAA's desicion?

Aimee

[hard]

3 exams in one day is too strenuous even for the best of students. Let's bring fair play back into the vce system!

[xox.happy1.xox]

Wow, this thread was like...resurrected. :S From March to now!

[Flaming_Arrow]

but people doing it the next day can just ask people what was on it....how do you solve that?

you move the exam to another day or something

[totalfrenzy]

Sorry for the bump, but my mate had 3 last thursday and two on the following friday :S
5 in 2 days :<

I think they were:
Psych, Accounting, Lit
Methods, Economics

[xXNovaxX]

My friend has all her exams in like 3 days or something, 1 week break between her first one and her last 4-5.

The co-coordinators from what I understood said she has to do them all in one day and an examiner has to be with her for the hour or two until her exam.

I don't think exams should be shifted to another day (runs and hides), >>>UNLESS<<< those students are not given access to other students who have done the exam.

Because as wombifat said, students can ask pplz form another school what was on there.

So in conclusion all exams should be laid out to ensure no day has more than 1 or 2 max on the same day.

Also, term 4.....exams can be brought in earlier, because at school only the first week or two is actualyl USEFUL revision, we stayed till 4 weeks in term 4, and it was useless and a waste of time, so there is the ability as Coblin said, sorry Collin  , to stretch them out.

I know doing exams earlier sounds bad, but I don't THINK they can be pushed 1 week later? Because of VTAC etc? Or maybe they can. hmm. dunno.

[QuantumJG]

I don't see why VCAA can't delay results day by a few days (or make marking results speedier and more efficient) and spread out the exam timetable further.

I'm sure it wouldn't affect VTAC affairs too much.

I believe this is the best option.

I was so lucky to not have two or three exams in one day. This is aweful, how could someone be expected to sit 3 exams? It's good how uni's can run supplementary exams, but with VCE to derive study scores for everyone you need people to sit the same paper.

VCAA is best off extending the exam period instead of trying to run heaps of exams per day.

[maine]

My friend last year couldnt sit the english exam on the perscribed date due to a medical condition, so what VCAA did was lock him in a hotel with no communications for the night and let him sit it on saturday
No joke
If only they made this option open to people with 3 subjects on a day