The Senior Course Handbook
The Senior Course Handbook is given to every Year 11, 12 and 13 student
It contains:
Qualifications
Assessment rules
Course selection rules
Course descriptions
Important Topics
(Extracts from the Handbook)
Deadlines
Deadlines are set for each internal assessment.
They are very, very important.
You cannot miss a deadline and expect to have your work assessed except in very special circumstances.
You can have an extension if you have been, or are, ill providing you have a doctor's certificate.
You can have an extension if there are special circumstances that have prevented you from meeting the deadline. These circumstances will have to be unusual and will have to be accompanied by a written request from your parents. The Deputy Principal will consider your request carefully and make the decision.
Internal Assessment Work Must be Your Own
It is very important that any work you hand in for internal assessment is all your own work.
Your teacher will tell you what is expected in order to make sure that this is so. Sometimes you will have to show drafts, sometimes a work-log and at other times you may have to sign a statement that the work you are handing in is all your own.
Usually you are allowed to use a small amount of someone else’s work to support or illustrate your own work. This is called quoting. When you quote someone else’s work you must say what parts are being quoted and you must say where you got it from. This is called acknowledgement. Your teacher will show you how to use quotes and to make acknowledgements.
Using someone else’s work without saying so is called plagiarism. If you are caught doing this you are cheating and your work will not be assessed and you will not earn the credits or get a grade. The school regularly checks research and writing for plagiarism.
Appeals
You have the right to appeal against an assessment result if you don't think it is right or fair.
You must make the appeal within 5 days of getting your results.
You must start the appeal by filling in an Assessment Appeal Form (from Mr Greenbrook). This is what you do:
Take the completed form to your teacher and ask for the result to be re-considered.
If you are not satisfied, take the form to the Faculty Head and ask for the result to be re-considered.
If you are still not satisfied you can take the form to the Principal and ask for the result to be re-considered.
In exceptional cases an outside teacher may be asked to make an independent evaluation.
Reassessment – resits & resubmission
Re-sits
For some of the internally assessed units in some courses you can have a second attempt at the assessment.
Your teacher will tell you if this is possible and when it will happen.
This second attempt is called a resit.
This means you will have to do a new assessment task.
Not all units have resit chances. Those that do will only give you one resit chance.
Resubmission
If you do an internal assessment and hand it in on time, and it is very close to a better grade, your teacher may give you the chance to change, improve or correct some of your work.
This is called resubmission. The changes must be your own work.
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