Year 10 Assessment Booklet 2025 by Red Bend Catholic College

RED BEND CATHOLIC COLLEGE

YEAR 10 ASSESSMENT POLICY

This booklet outlines the Year 10 assessment policy and includes assessment schedules for all Year 10 courses.

What are Assessment Tasks?

Assessment tasks are used to measure total student achievement throughout Year 10. They cover core syllabus content and outcomes, but do not include information about student attitudes, behaviour and conduct. Student assessment marks are gathered during Year 10 through a variety of assessment tasks. These are used to allocate marks and grades for the Semesters 1 and 2 academic reports.

Assessment Guidelines

1. Notification and Feedback of Assessments

Students must be notified by their teacher that an Assessment Task is approaching. Notification of the task will be given to students, a minimum of 2 weeks before the task date. Students will be informed of:

• The type of task (test, assignment, Speaking presentation, etc)

• The content covered by the task

• The best way to prepare for the task (organisation, study etc)

• Clear and meaningful feedback up to 2 weeks from the due date about their performance on specific tasks.

2. Honesty in Assessments

It is your responsibility to complete all assessment tasks to the best of your ability. You must also make sure that each assessment item is your own work. Malpractice is any activity that allows students an unfair advantage over other students. It can include:

• presentation of another student’s work

• plagiarism

• copying

• getting assistance from other sources where this is not allowed using material directly from books, journals, or the internet without reference to the source

• buying, stealing or borrowing another person’s work and presenting it as your own

• using words, ideas, designs or the workmanship of others in practical and performance tasks with appropriate acknowledgement

• submitting work to which another person such as a parent, coach or subject expert has contributed substantially paying someone to write or prepare material

• breaching school examination rules

• using non-approved aides during an assessment task

• contriving false explanations to explain work not handed in by the due date

• unauthorised use of generative AI (artificial intelligence) tools giving false reasons for not handing in work by the due date

3. Submission of Assessments (including in-class tasks)

Year 10 students are expected to submit all tasks by the due date. Students who are absent without reason or submit an assessment task after the due date will receive zero.

4. Extensions

Students who have a valid reason (eg. illness, misadventure or sporting commitments) for not being able to complete an assessed item on time, are advised to apply for an extension. Extensions can be applied for via the Director of Curriculum, Mrs Martin. Students are to contact the Director of Curriculum via email. Students will meet with the Director of Curriculum to organise an alternative due date to complete the task. In exceptional circumstances, students will be issued a standardised score for the task.

If there are misadventure or medical circumstances, parents/carers should contact the Director of Curriculum: E: dsc@redbendcc.nsw.edu.au

5. Appeals

You may appeal to your teacher if you believe the mark for an assessment item is unfair. It is your responsibility to see your teacher as soon as

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possible after the item has been returned. Should you believe that you did not get a fair hearing, take your case to the Faculty Coordinator. The Faculty Coordinator may pass your case on to Mrs Martin if they are unable to reach a resolution.

6. Year 10 Assessment Drive

Students use Google G Suite to complete assessments. Copies of assessment notifications are placed on the Year 10 Team Assessment Drive, which can be accessed at any time.

7. Responsibility of Students in Examinations

• Be well prepared

• Correct school uniform must be worn to all examinations.

• Have pencils, pens, calculator etc in a clear plastic sleeve – pencil cases are not permitted in the examination room.

• Leave all books, paper and study notes in your locker.

• No paper is to be brought into the examination room – writing paper will be supplied.

• Respond properly to all directions given by the supervisor.

• Use the full time allocated for an examination – no student will be permitted to leave the examination room early.

• There is to be no borrowing of equipment during the examination.

• Raise your hand to ask a question. Do not disturb any person during the time you are in an examination room.

• Put up your hand and ask permission if you need to go to the toilet. Permission will not be granted to go to the toilet in the first 15 minutes or the final 15 minutes of the examination.

• Mobile phones are not permitted. Students who bring a mobile phone into an exam may incur a penalty of zero for the exam.

8. Disability Provisions

Students are eligible to apply for disability provisions if they have permanent or temporary disability that would, in a normal examination situation, prevent him or her from:

1. Reading the examination questions; and/or 2. Communicating his or her responses

Conditions are listed under the categories of medical, learning difficulty, hearing and vision. Provisions may include; large print papers, use of a writer, use of a reader, extension of test time, rest breaks, establishment of a special test space, small group supervision, individual supervision, permission to take medication, or other provisions as judged appropriate. Please see Mrs Umbers (Diverse Learning Coordinator) if you have any questions about disability provisions.

9. RoSA (Record of School Achievement)

You will receive a grade from A to E for each of the courses listed on your RoSA. The grades are based on the course performance descriptors for each course. The grades allocated to each student are determined by the student’s performance on the assessment tasks throughout the course. The grade awarded is reported on your RoSA. The RoSA is a NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) credential that you will receive if you intend leaving school before receiving your HSC.

10. ‘N’ Determinations

A student must meet the following criteria in order to qualify for a RoSA grade in a course:

• Have completed a sufficient number of hours of study in a course developed or endorsed by NESA.

Have participated in the set tasks provided in the course and made the required effort.

• Have achieved some of the course outcomes. A student who does not comply with these requirements may receive an ‘N’ determination to denote an unsatisfactory performance on their RoSA. A student who is at risk of receiving an ‘N’ determination must be warned as soon as possible and the Principal must advise the parent or guardian in writing. This warning must be issued in time for the problem to be rectified. A student who has received two written warnings and not complied with requirements will be deemed to have not satisfactorily completed the course. If a student receives an ‘N’ determination they are able to appeal.

Do you have questions? Please see either your class teacher, the Faculty Coordinator, or the Director of Curriculum (Mrs Martin)

Year 10 | 2025 ASSESSMENT CALENDAR

Year 10 | SUBJECT ASSESSMENTS

AG5-10, AG5-13, AG5-14

AG5-1, AG5-2, AG5-3, AG5-7, AG5-8, AG5-9

Application/participation in agricultural activities at the farm and practical tasks in Semester 1 and then Semester 2

AG5-1, AG5-4, AG5-10, G5-11, AG5-12

Year 10 | SUBJECT ASSESSMENTS

English

Semester 1

EN5-RVL-01

EN5-URB-01

EN5-URC-01

EN5-ECA-01

EN5-URB-01

EN5-URC-01

EN5-ECA-01

EN5-ECB-01

Semester 2

EN5-URB-01

EN5-URC-01 EN5-ECA-01 EN5-ECB-01

EN5-URB-01

EN5-URC-01

EN5-ECA-01

EN5-ECB-01

Food Technology

Semester 1

Semester 2

HSIE | History

Semester 1

Year 10 | SUBJECT ASSESSMENTS

5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7

5.1, 5.2, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8, 5.10

HSIE | Geography

Semester 2

GE5.2, GE5.3,

GE5.4, GE5.5, GE5.7, GE5.8

GE5.1, GE5.2,

GE5.6, GE5.7

GE5.8

Year 10 | SUBJECT ASSESSMENTS

History Elective Semester 1

Year 10 | SUBJECT ASSESSMENTS

Industrial Technology Metal Semester 1

IND5-4

Semester 2

IND5-7

Year 10 | SUBJECT ASSESSMENTS

Industrial Technology Timber Semester 1

Semester 2

Year 10 | SUBJECT ASSESSMENTS

ST5-1, ST5-2, ST5-3, ST5-4, ST5-5, ST5-6, ST5-7, ST5-8, ST5-9, ST5-10

ST5-1, ST5-2, ST5-4, ST5-5, ST5-6, ST5-8, ST5-10

ST5-1, ST5-2, ST5-3, ST5-4, ST5-5, ST5-6, ST5-7, ST5-8, ST5-9, ST5-10

Year 10 | SUBJECT ASSESSMENTS

MA5-ARE-P-01

MA5-VOL-P-01

MA5-FIN-C-02

MA5-ARE-P-01, MA5-VOL-P-01

MA5-FIN-C-02, MA5-LIN-C-01

MA5-LIN-C-02, MA5-LIN-P-01

MA5-TRG-C-02, MA5-NLI-C-01

MA5-NLI-C-02, MA4-RAT-C-01

MA4-RAT-P-01

MA5-TRG-C-02, MA5-NLI-C-01

MA5-NLI-C-02, MA4-RAT-C-01

MA4-RAT-P-01, MA5-DAT-C-01

MA5-DAT-C-02, MA5-DAT-P-01

MA5-EQU-P-01, MA5-PRO-P-01

Year 10 | SUBJECT ASSESSMENTS

Personal Development, Health & Physical Education

Year 10 | SUBJECT ASSESSMENTS

Personal Activity and Sports Studies (PASS)

Semester 1

1 PASS5-1, PASS5-2, PASS5-8, PASS5-10

PASS5-1, PASS5-2, PASS5-6, PASS5-7, PASS5-8, PASS5-9, PASS5-10

Semester 2

5 PASS5-5, PASS5-7, PASS5-8, PASS5-10

6 PASS5-5, PASS5-7, PASS5-8, PASS5-10

Semester 1

Year 10 | SUBJECT ASSESSMENTS

Science

Semester 1

Year 10 | SUBJECT ASSESSMENTS

SC5-14LW, SC5-15LW, SC5-9WS

SC5-14LW, SC5-15LW, SC5-12ES, SC5-13ES, SC5-8WS, SC5-9WS Semester

Semester 2

SC5-16CE, SC5-17CW, SC5-6WS, SC5-7.2WS, SC5-9WS

SC5-16CE, SC5-17CW, SC5-10PW, SC5-11PW, SC5-5WS, SCSC5-7WS, SC5-8WS, SC5-9WS