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Examinations test your knowledge. That’s obvious enough! However if it was simply how many facts you could memorise, then that knowledge wouldn’t be much use. You could memorise all of the players in your favourite football team, but if you had no idea about each player’s position or how good they were, then the knowledge would be useless. You need to use the knowledge and this requires a number of skills.

In most examined subjects at an Advanced level, and certainly with your Advanced VCE, examiners assess three broad skills:

1. Understanding and Recognition skills: the ability to look at a situation and gather together key facts and issues
2. Application and Analysis skills: the ability to figure out what’s going on and why this is happening
3. Evaluation skills: the ability to comment on whether a situation is good or bad, whether it should be different.

Click on any of the above links to discover more about these skills. The more you practice these skills, the more likely you are to gain a high grade in your VCE examination.