Year 12 enrolments – Time to decide

A word from Jenny Offer, Principal Consultant, Certification

The time is fast approaching for Year 12 students to decide whether or not to change course enrolment. Changing your enrolments is a big decision and it should not be made lightly. You should discuss your options with your parents/guardians as well as your teachers, Year Coordinator or Careers Counsellor before you make a final decision.

The time is fast approaching for Year 12 students to decide whether or not to change course enrolment. Changing your enrolments is a big decision and it should not be made lightly. You should discuss your options with your parents/guardians as well as your teachers, Year Coordinator or Careers Counsellor before you make a final decision.

Schools may have earlier deadlines in order to manage the administrative work that goes with changes to enrolments, but the last date for the Authority to be notified of changes to Year 12 enrolments is Wednesday, 5 April. After then, you will only be able to withdraw from your courses.

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). The dates for withdrawing are:

  • Friday, 28 July for Year 12 ATAR courses with practical examinations component
  • Friday, 25 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 note about ATAR courses below), General, Foundation and Preliminary courses will be listed on your WASSA.

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

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 Western Australian Certificate of Education (WACE).

If we unpack this further, it means that the grades 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 at least one pair of Year 12 units from an English course (if the ATAR Year 12 course was either English, Literature or English as an Additional Language or Dialect)
  • 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.

Withdrawing from units may mean you don’t complete enough units this year and may not meet the requirements to achieve a WACE.

Special note about Year 12 ATAR courses

If you do not sit an ATAR course examination, you will not have a course mark or grade recorded on your WASSA, and you will not receive an ATAR course report for that course. This means there will be no record at the Authority of you having studied this course.

WACE requirements

You are able to find details relating to the WACE requirements in the Year 12 Information Handbook 2017, available on the Authority website at http://www.scsa.wa.edu.au/publications/year-12-information.

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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