VCAA RULES As all VCE students in the state are enrolled with VCAA, there are some statewide rules for VCE. These are reprinted from the VCAA Administrative Handbook. The VCAA sets down eight rules which a student must observe when preparing work for assessment.  These rules apply to Coursework and School-assessed Tasks.  They are: 

1.      A student must ensure that all unacknowledged work submitted for assessment is genuinely his/her own.

2.      A student must acknowledge all resources used, including:       

  ·    text, websites and source material        

  ·    the name(s) and status of any person(s) who provided assistance and the type of assistance provided.

3.      A student must not receive undue assistance from any other person in the preparation and submission of work.  Acceptable levels of assistance include:

         ·    the incorporation of ideas or material derived from other sources (e.g. by reading, viewing or notetaking) but which has been transformed by the student and used in a new context.        

  •      prompting and general advice from another person or source which leads to refinements and/or self-correction. 

          Unacceptable forms of assistance include:

         ·    use of, or copying of, another person’s work or other resources without acknowledgement      

        ·    corrections or improvements made or dictated by another person. 

4.      A student must not submit the same piece of work for assessment in more than one study.

5.      A student who knowingly assists other students in a breach of rules may be penalised.

6.      A student must sign the declaration of authenticity for work done outside class at the time of submitting the completed task. This declaration states that all unacknowledged work is the student’s own.

7.       A student must sign a general declaration that he or she will obey the rules and instructions for the VCE, and accept its disciplinary provisions.

8.      A student undertaling School–ssessed Coursework or School-assessed Tasks tests must comply with examination rules.

 It is expected that students will retain work completed until the end of the year in which the work was undertaken.