• Victorian Certificate of Education
• Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning
• Apprenticeships and Traineeships

• About the VCAL
• What I need to know
• What do I study?
• What counts towards my VCAL?
• How is the VCAL assessed?
• What must I do to be awarded a VCAL certificate?
• How are my results reported to me?
• Where can the VCAL take me?
• Student Success Stories
• VCAL pathways in languages other than English
• Glossary

What must I do to be awarded a VCAL Certificate?

To be awarded a VCAL certificate, you must successfully complete a learning program of 1000 nominal hours that is designed to comply with the following credit requirements. The learning program must:

• be made up of a minimum of ten credits
• include curriculum components to fulfil each of the four VCAL curriculum strands
• contain components drawn from accredited curriculum such as:
  • VCAL units
  • VCE units
  • VET accredited curriculum or FE accredited curriculum (one credit is awarded on successful completion of 100 nominal hours of accredited curriculum)
• include:
  • a minimum of two VCAL units
  • a minimum of one credit for literacy and one credit for numeracy; and
  • in each of the remaining three strands, components to the value of at least one credit
• include components to the value of six credits at the level of the VCAL award, of which one must be for literacy and one credit must be for a VCAL Personal Development Skills unit.