Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) Vocational Major (VM)
What is Victorian Certificate of Education – Vocational Major VCE VM)?
The VCE VM is a 2-year vocational and applied learning program within the VCE with specific subjects designed to prepare students for life, further study and employment.
The VCE VM is a new vocational and applied learning program within the VCE.
The VCE VM will prepare you to move successfully into apprenticeships, traineeships, further education and training, university through alternative entry programs or directly into the workforce.
To recognise your achievements, when you’ve completed your VCE VM you will get your VCE with a Vocational Major.
Students at WSSC can select VCE VM Work Related Skills and/or Personal Development Skills at Year 10.
Students at WSSC cannot select VCE VM Literacy and Numeracy subjects until Year 11.
Pathways to TAFE and the Workforce (Vocational Major – VM)
At WSSC, students will be enrolled in 30 VCE units over 3 years.
Minimum requirements:
- 3 VCE VM Literacy or VCE English units (including a Unit 3–4 sequence)
- 2 VCE VM Numeracy or VCE Mathematics units
- 2 VCE VM Work Related Skills units
- 2VCE VM Personal Development Skills units
- 2 VCE VM Personal Development Skills units
- Minimum of 180 nominal hours of VET at Certificate II level of above, and
- Minimum of 3 Unit 3-4 sequences in addition to your sequence from the English group
Key Differences between the VCE and VCE VM
| VCE | VCE VM |
| Scored Receive Study Scores for each subject Receive an ATAR on completion | Typically, unscored can be scored through careful subject selection. |
| Fastest pathway to university | University via an alternate pathway |
| Compulsory Subject: English Electives: 5 | Compulsory Subjects: English, Maths, Work-Related Skills, Personal Development, VET subject Electives: 1 |
How is VCE VM Structured?
The VCE VM course is made up of studies and units, some of which must be studied as a sequence.
A study is a subject, for example, Literacy or Work Related Skills (WRS). It is made up of four units (Units 1, 2, 3 and 4), each of which is a semester in length.
For most students, VCE VM is completed over two years. At WSSC students complete VCE VM over three years.
Students typically study Units 1 and 2 in Year 10 and 11, and Units 3 and 4 in 12 but can advance in Year 11 in up to two unit 3-4 sequences (other than English and Math).
You can study Unit 1 or Unit 2 of a subject as stand-alone units. However, you must enrol in Units 3 and 4 of a study as a sequence. This sequence needs to be completed in the same year if a study score is to be calculated.
Students at WSSC have the opportunity to complete 30 units over the three years, eight in Year 10, twelve in Year 11 and ten in Year 12.
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