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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi all - <br>
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Is anyone hearing any rumblings from the VCAA around modifications to practical components yet? I know that in some of the 20 studies affected by practical Unit 4 content, it’s going to have a big impact.<br>
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>From the chats I’ve had with VCAA so far, and just in general updates from their publications, this is the advice:<br>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;background:white">“The examination dates provide sufficient time for teachers and students to complete adjusted VCE Unit 4 learning and school-based assessments, and to adequately prepare
for the examinations. They also allow for VCE and VCAL students to receive their results and ATARs on 30 December as per the current schedule.”<br>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;background:white">Thoughts? I feel like we have been given a lovely extra 2 weeks or so in Term 4, but our Unit 4 SAT (around 33% of their year mark) was predominantly unchanged</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;background:white">
barring the exceptions on conducting first person materials tests, and the vague direction that we could make a prototype instead (despite having no documentation of that being sufficient in the modified study design, and leaving aside that a prototype needs
to use the same scale/equivalent processes but exchanging materials/technologies).<br>
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Anyone heard anything better, or more complete? <br>
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