VCE Administrative Handbook 2025
The VCE Administrative Handbook 2025 provides principals, teachers and administrators with detailed information on implementing the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE), including the VCE Vocational Major (VCE VM). It outlines the rules, regulations and policies that support the integrity of the certificate and equity of student access to fair and valid results. This handbook also provides principals, teachers and administrators with instructions on using the Victorian Assessment Software System (VASS).
Find administrative information on curriculum, assessment, results and more.
Summary of changes for the VCE Administrative Handbook 2025
The following changes have been made to the VCE Administrative Handbook 2025 to support schools to appropriately meet the requirements to deliver the VCE in 2025.
- Consolidation of advice on the satisfactory completion of a unit and how it differs from levels of achievement
- Updated information on completing VCE units without calculation of study scores
- Consolidation of advice on the responsibilities of providers for the delivery of the VCE (previously School obligations to the VCAA)
- A new section on the maintenance of school records, summarising the responsibilities of schools for establishing, maintaining and disposing of VCE-related records
- Clarification of feedback to students, including the requirement that schools provide students with their initial school-based assessment score for individual SACs
- The addition of specific advice on generative AI and the authentication of school-based assessments
- The section on breaches of rules and investigations includes a new section on student complaints
- The addition of a list of terms used in the handbook
In this 2025 edition of the VCE Administrative Handbook, information relating to the VCE includes the VCE VM, unless otherwise stated or when referring to scored school-based and external assessments and related processes and results.
For VPC administrative advice, see the VPC Administrative Handbook 2025.