Reporting

Years 7 - 10 Semester 1 & 2 Reports

The report provides you with information on your daughter’s progress in relation to her achievement of each of the outcomes for each of the subjects she has undertaken this semester. In addition, you have also been provided with her overall level of achievement in each of the subjects she has undertaken.

Grades are awarded using the Common Grade Scale (Yrs 1-10).

The Overall Achievement has not been determined by the teacher averaging the number of each descriptors (Excellent, High, Sound, Basic and Elementary) achieved for each outcome. Teachers have worked closely to develop and use consistent “profiles” of typical student achievement at each level. These profiles have been developed in conjunction with individual subject report criteria (rubric) and student work samples.

You will also be provided with a “Grades Summary“ which provides statistics on the performance of all students in the particular year cohort undertaking particular subjects. The numbers of students achieving at various levels for each of the criteria is not determined by any mathematical formula or by pre determined numbers of descriptors but by the cohort’s achievement in a particular subject for that semester. The numbers of students achieving at each of these levels will vary from subject to subject, from cohort to cohort and from semester to semester. It also includes the numbers of students achieving at each level for “Overall Achievement.” 

Year 11 & 12 Semester Reports

Semester 1

The Year 11 Preliminary Course and Year 12 HSC Course reports are similar. There is information on your daughter’s progress in relation to her achievement of the Preliminary or HSC outcomes in each of the subjects she has studied for the Preliminary or HSC course. In addition, there are raw marks for assessment tasks completed since the commencement of the course. The report contains a Half Yearly Examination Mark, Exam Position, and a Progressive Rank for the HSC. Year 11 do not sit Half Yearly Preliminary Exams. 

Grades are awarded using the Common Grade Scale for Preliminary courses.

Semester 2

The Year 11 Preliminary Course report has a very similar structure to the Half-Yearly Report. There is information on your daughter’s position in relation to her achievement of the Preliminary outcomes in each of the subjects she has studied for the Preliminary Course. In addition, there are raw marks for assessment tasks completed since the Half Yearly report, an Exam Mark and Exam Position and her Final Rank for the Preliminary Course. You will find an explanation of this information below.

The Year 12 Semester 2 report has the same structure as the Year 12 Half Yearly Report. There is information on your daughter’s progress in relation to her achievement of the HSC outcomes in each of the subjects she has studied for the HSC course. In addition, there are raw marks for assessment tasks completed since the Half Yearly Examinations, a Trial HSC Examination Mark, Position, and the Final Course Rank. You will find an explanation of this information below. Rank order notices are also available from Students OnLine (NESA). It is advisable that students check there when they become available (closer to the end of the HSC Examinations).

Vocational Education & Training (VET) Reports

If your daughter is studying a VET (Vocational Education and Training) course she will receive a different report to the outcomes based report. This is because VET courses are competency based courses where students work to develop the competencies and knowledge described in each Unit of Competency. There is no mark awarded in competency based assessment, they are simply assessed as ‘competent’ or ‘not yet competent’. Students will be progressively assessed and at this stage of the process, VET students are assessed as:

            N/A – Competency not yet attempted,

            ‘D’ –  Developing skills in this competency, or

            ‘C’ –  Competent in the stated competency.

They will also receive an assessment percentage for the examination as well as a record of the work placement hours completed thus far.