Last week, VCAA updated their 2024 exam marking guides to be, well, guides to their marking. This is obviously a big improvement over the skeletal guides that appeared early December (which were themselves a massive improvement over the traditional nothing that VCAA has offered). Thank you, Dr. Bennett, once again, and thank you to VCAA for the improved output. New links are below (W,I).
We had already announced this VCAA update and we have changed links in relevant posts. There was a suggestion, however, that a separate announcing post may be worthwhile, and that people may wish to chat about the guides. So, here’s your post: chat away.
*) Methods new marking guide 1, new marking guide 2
*) Specialist new marking guide 1, new marking guide 2
*) General new marking guide 1 (not updated), new marking guide 2
*) Foundation new marking guide
*) Methods exam report 1 and exam report 2 (and exam 1, exam 2)
*) Specialist exam report 1 and exam report 2 (and exam 1, exam 2)
*) General exam report 1 and exam report 2 (and exam 1, exam 2)
*) Foundation exam report (and exam)
It’s 2025 and people still don’t know the difference between e.g. and i.e. (first thing I noticed on the first Methods marking guide, the bit about song lyrics).
That’s very funny, in a head-slapping sense.
Decided to have a quick look at the first Specialist one. “Factorize” (not ‘wrong’ per se, but at least keep your spelling consistent) and “tildas”. I guess it’s presented “as is,” so can’t really blame them if they don’t care about spelling, as long as the instructions are clear.
Plus, as we all know, it’s in Word. Not only that, it’s not even handed out as a pdf. The people making this stuff must be at least 98 years old. I mean, it does the job, but just look at the stuff VCAA makes and then look at what the rest of the planet makes.
Tilda Swinton, maybe?
Thanks, Craig. I’m not so fussed about the wonky spelling, although you’d think one of the thousand graders might have pointed out these things. But the Word business is just nuts. I think someone told me it was some general government directive or something, to use Word. But that just makes it more nuts.