VICTER 2015: Victorian Tertiary Entrance Requirements - VTAC

About selection
VTAC does not select applicants or influence decisions made by
institutions.
Selection is the responsibility of each institution’s course selection
authorities. When considering your application, course authorities take
into account published institutional and course entrance requirements,
prerequisite studies and methods such as interviews, folios and
supplementary forms.
For a list of the methods used for selection to a course, see Selection
mode under the course information in CourseSearch on the VTAC
website.
Two models of selection:
Approximately 50% of all courses use a range of criteria that may include
the ATAR as well as other factors such as interview, folio presentations,
pre-selection tests, additional forms and so on. Within this mix of criteria
there may be different requirements for Year 12 applicants and non-year
12 applicants.
ATAR and two-stage process with a middle band of 20%
For courses using this selection method about 80% of places are
determined by the ATAR alone. For the remainder of places in these
courses additional information is considered for the applicants who
do not have an ATAR high enough to guarantee automatic selection,
but have an ATAR above that which leads to automatic rejection. These
applicants are in the middle-band and they are evaluated in accord with
the middle-band criteria published in each year’s course entries.
Information about factors other than the ATAR are published in the
middle-band statement within each course entry. See middle-band
under the course information in CourseSearch on the VTAC website.
These factors are used in addition to the prerequisites and extra
requirements in course entries to rank applicants in the middle-band
and fill the balance of the course quota.
Study area groupings
Mathematics studies
• Further Mathematics
• Mathematical Methods (CAS)*
• Mathematical Methods (CAS)
• Specialist Mathematics
• Change and Approximation*
• Extensions–Change and Approximation*
• Reasoning and Data*
• Extensions–Reasoning and Data*
• Space and Number*
• Extensions–Space and Number*
• any Mathematics Higher Education study.
English studies
• English
• English (EAL)
• Literature
• English Language
• any English Higher Education study.
Music studies
• Music– History and Styles*
• Music Styles*
• Music Performance– Group*
• Music Performance–Solo*
• Music Styles and Composition
• Music Performance
• Music Investigation
• VCE VET Music Industry– Music Performance
• VCE VET Music Industry–Technical Production
• any Music Higher Education study.
Please note: There are a number of non-scored VET sequences available
in the Music study area.
History studies
• Asian History*
• Australian History
• The City in History*
• Koori History*
• Revolutions
• History of Western Ideas*
• Renaissance Italy
• Nationalism and Modern State*
• any History Higher Education study.
Contemporary Australian studies
• Contemporary Society*
• Australian Studies*
• Contemporary Australian Society*
• Sociology
• any Contemporary Australian Study Higher Education study.
IT studies
• VCE Information Systems*
• VCE Information Processing and Management*
• VCE Information Technology in Society*
• VCE VET Information Technology
• VCE Software Development
• VCE IT Applications*
• any IT Higher Education study.
Please note: There are a number of non-scored VET sequences available
in the IT study area, including from the CISCO Networking Program.
All study grouping areas are correct as at 30 June 2013, but may be
revised on the VTAC website and through VTAC Bulletins to schools as
soon as revision is confirmed.
*Indicates that the study is no longer being offered as part of the VCE.
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