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The Board of the School Curriculum and Standards Authority has endorsed consensus moderation processes for selected ATAR Year 11 and 12 courses in 2025.

Participation in this moderation process is compulsory for all schools delivering a course in the table below.

In 2025, consensus moderation meetings will be full-day meetings. The meetings will focus on the review of student assessment files and the application of the grade descriptions in a course to determine a grade, and on assessment practices as outlined in Section 2.4 of the WACE Manual 2025.

A key aspect to achieving comparability in standards is the development and implementation of valid and appropriate school-based assessment tasks that provide for a representative sampling of the syllabus content and provide students with the opportunity to demonstrate the full range of achievements.

Teachers participating are required to provide a student assessment file for three students (one at each grade from A to C), including all assessment types and all marked assessments up to the time of providing the file. Additionally, schools are required to provide a proposed grade distribution for the course at the time of the meeting.

Regional schools more than 100 km from the nearest scheduled meeting venue will be given the option of either attending meetings at their nearest location or participating in an online meeting following the same process as the face-to-face meetings.

Consensus moderation meetings will be conducted in Weeks 2 through 7 of Term 3, 2025. Further information on consensus moderation can be found in Section 3.4.5 of the WACE Manual 2025.

Information regarding registration of teachers and specific course requirements will be sent to principals in late Term 1. Each school will be required to register one teacher for each of the courses below that the school is delivering.

Teachers need to have procedures in place to ensure that all marked student work is retained for moderation purposes. This includes evidence collected for courses with portfolios and/or practical requirements. See Section 2.8 of the WACE Manual 2025 for further details.

Courses in consensus moderation in 2025

Course	Pathway	Year Level
The Arts Learning Area
Drama	ATAR	11
Media Production and Analysis	ATAR	11
English Learning Area
English as an Additional Language or Dialect	ATAR	12
Humanities and Social Sciences Learning Area
Geography	ATAR	11

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