Year 12 enrolments – Decision time

A word from Jenny Offer, Principal Consultant, Certification

Did you know that Thursday, 5 April is the last day to change your course enrolment if you’re in Year 12, or enrolled in a Year 12 course? Now is the time to make some decisions.

Did you know that Thursday, 5 April is the last day to change your course enrolment if you’re in Year 12, or enrolled in a Year 12 course? Now is the time to make some decisions.

Check your enrolments today

Year 12 student can check their enrolments and personal details online at https://www.wace.wa.edu.au. To log on, you will need your WA student number and other personal identification information. The Authority strongly encourages you to check that your enrolments in course units are listed. This is especially important where students are studying at more than one school (e.g. also studying via SIDE). Students must report inaccurate information to the school for updating.

Changing your enrolment

Changing your enrolment can impact how you meet the requirements of the Western Australian Certificate of Education (WACE). It might also impact on your options for further study and the Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR) you achieve.

Changing your enrolment is a decision that you should make carefully. You should ensure that you:

  1. check your options and use the Authority’s WACE Checker (see below) to see the impact any change might have on meeting the requirements of the WACE
  2. talk with your parents/guardians as well as your teachers, Year Coordinator or Careers Counsellor before you make a final decision
  3. meet the deadline to change your enrolment – and be aware that schools may have earlier deadlines than Thursday, 5 April in order to manage the administrative work that goes with changes to enrolments.

You will not be able to pick up new courses after Thursday, 5 April until a new school year begins. This means, if you don’t have enough units from the courses you complete this year to meet the WACE requirements, you will need to continue your studies next year.

Withdrawing

Withdrawing from courses means there will be no listing of your enrolment in these courses for this year on your Western Australian Statement of Student Achievement (WASSA). After Thursday, 5 April, you will only be able to withdraw from your courses.

The dates for withdrawing from courses in 2018 are:

  • Friday, 27 July for Year 12 ATAR courses with practical examinations component
  • Friday, 17 August for all other Year 12 courses – including Year 12 ATAR courses without a practical examination component, General, Foundation and Preliminary courses.

If you remain enrolled in a course after these dates for withdrawal, you are expected to complete the assessment requirements of the course. The results you achieve for ATAR (see section about ATAR courses below), General, Foundation and Preliminary courses will be listed on your WASSA.

Withdrawing from units may mean you don’t complete enough units this year and may not meet the requirements to achieve a WACE. The WACE requirements are set out in the Year 12 Information Handbook 2018, available on the Authority website at https://scsa.wa.edu.au/publications/year-12-information.

ATAR students

If you are enrolled in an ATAR Year 12 course, and you do not withdraw from that course, you are required to sit the ATAR examination in that course.

If you do not sit an ATAR course examination and do not have an approved sickness/misadventure application for that course, then the grades for the pair of units completed in that year will not contribute to the calculation of the WACE.

This means that the grades from your school-based assessment for the ATAR Year 12 course will not contribute to the following WACE requirements:

  • completion of a minimum of 20 units, including 10 Year 12 units
  • completion of four units from an English learning area course, post-Year 10, including at least one pair of Year 12 units from an English learning area course
  • completion of one pair of Year 12 units from List A (arts/languages/social sciences) or List B (mathematics/science/technology)
  • achievement of at least 14 C grades or higher, including at least six C grades in Year 12 units
  • completion of at least four Year 12 ATAR courses.
Checking with the WACE Checker

The Authority’s WACE Checker can help you with your decision.

The WACE Checker is a tool you can use to check your progress towards meeting the requirements of the WACE. It is designed to show whether you have met (or are expected to meet) each of the requirements for the WACE. You will find the Checker, and more information on how to use it, on the Authority website at https://wacechecker.scsa.wa.edu.au.

Please remember the decisions you make now may affect your future study plans. Think carefully.

All the best with your studies.

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