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Learning and Practice
Using your e-unit
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Assessment comes after learning, but if you are to be fairly assessed it matters little how much you know if you can’t use that knowledge to tackle business problems. The assessment module of your e-unit aims to make you aware of the skills you must have for success in your written examination.

The assessment module is divided into four main sections:

• The Grid: or the “assessment evidence grid” where you look, in detail, at the evidence you must demonstrate in order to gain various grades. The grades for a VCE range from E to A (though you can fail!). The grid shows the evidence you must demonstrate in order to gain an E, a C and an A. In written examinations how the grades are worked out is not as straightforward as this, but you will not go far wrong if you fully understand the “criteria” in the assessment evidence grid.
• Skills: to cope with written examinations you need to understand the meaning of the following skills:
• understanding
• recognition
• application
• analysis
• evaluation
• Dictionary: examiners use a variety of words (called “command” words) to get you to demonstrate the sort of skill they are looking for (see above). Often students don’t understand these words and end up demonstrating the wrong skill: unhappy examiner...unhappy student! You must understand the meaning of these command words so that you can understand what on earth the examiner’s babbling on about....! This part of the assessment module gives you a dictionary of these command words: you’d better learn them!
• Question Index: a list of all the questions contained in this e-unit, cross referenced to the assessment criteria. As you work through your e-unit you will come across these questions. Use this page for revision purposes.