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1 Year 11 & 12 Winter School 2018. Get Ahead, Reduce Stress, & Cut Down on Study Time Venue: The University of Melbourne Dates: Saturday 30th June Sunday 22nd July 2018. 2018. Unit 4: Get Ahead & Reduce Stress Unit 3: Revise, Consolidate & Extend Includes FREE Maths Exam 2 lectures valued at $200! Unit 2: Get Ahead & Reduce Study Time Maximising Examination Marks A FREE exam strategy lecture for VCE students Valued at $150. Date: Saturday 16 June 2018. The School For Excellence Venue: The University of Melbourne Level 3, 99 William Street Melbourne , VIC, 3000 See Page 5 for further details THE SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE. Year 11 & 12 Winter School 13 Reasons Why You Should Attend YOU WILL receive valuable advice and instruction from leading VCE teachers and assessors from top ranking schools. YOU WILL receive the most detailed and comprehensive instruction from Victoria's most trusted and successful program provider (up to 9 hours in select subjects). YOU WILL reduce stress levels and workloads in the challenging weeks leading up to your exams.

2 YOU WILL work through course materials to an A+ standard in a simple, step-by-step manner. YOU WILL hear information from a If I had been aware of how brilliant the TSFX different perspective and develop a deeper understanding of course materials. This lectures were, I would have gone to them at the will improve the quality of your SAC and beginning of the year. Student, Rosebud Secondary College exam responses, and your ability to apply information in tests and exams. YOU WILL learn proven strategies that Unit 2 & Unit 4 Head Start Lectures will maximise your SAC and exam marks. The Term 2 holidays offer students the opportunity to get ahead in their studies and reduce YOU WILL eliminate the need to waste stress levels and workloads in Terms 3 and 4. Students who work through course materials in valuable time. Each student will receive advance will quickly realise the benefits when the same topics are covered at school. While detailed and comprehensive A+ notes other students struggle to understand new concepts being delivered in class, you will be hearing that include worked examples, step-by- this information for the second time.

3 Your ability to apply concepts will be greatly improved, step instructions, exam watch-outs, as increasing confidence levels and reducing the time that needs to be spent on your studies, while well as a large collection of exam-style significantly improving VCE marks. questions to work through at home. Working through materials on your own, however, can be time-consuming, boring and YOU WILL significantly cut down on ineffective. Our Unit 2 & Unit 4 Head Start program has therefore been designed to help you study time. You will cover (and learn). secure the best possible advantage in the VCE in a time-efficient and relatively painless 5 times more information than if you manner! You will work through key topics from the Unit 2 or Unit 4 course, gain advance were to work through the same exposure to SAC and exam-style questions, and develop the problem-solving skills that are materials on your own! needed to secure the higher marks. Comprehensive A+ notes will be provided in each subject.

4 YOU WILL work through examination- style questions and learn how to set out Unit 3 Exam Revision Lectures answers in accordance with the marking The VCAA exams that commence in October will assess an entire year's work, and count schemes used by VCE exam markers. for up to two-thirds of each subject's Study Score. The amount of material that needs to YOU WILL discover the tricks and be committed to memory is substantial, resulting in high levels of stress and study in the traps that could appear in your SACs challenging months leading up to the final VCE exams. and exams. Students can save significant amounts of stress and time by revising and extending YOU WILL learn how to interpret and on the Unit 3 course to VCE examination standard, while course materials are still fresh in solve the difficult analysis-style questions. mind. Our Unit 3 Exam Revision lectures have been designed with this purpose in mind, and to provide students, like you, with the skills and information needed to perform to a high YOU WILL develop greater confidence in standard in the VCAA exams.

5 All of your studies. During our Unit 3 Exam Revision lectures, you'll receive complete and detailed coverage of YOU WILL gain a huge advantage over examinable materials to VCAA examination standard. Each lecture will review and extend on your VCE peers! the materials covered at school, exposing students to a large collection of examination-style questions, as well as frequently overlooked tricks and traps that could appear in exams. To date, NO OTHER organisation You will also learn how examination papers are marked and how answers must be presented if they are to be awarded full scores. Emphasis will be placed on the more challenging has been able to match the concepts, as well as the areas that have been poorly addressed in past VCE exams. quality of our lectures and notes. Comprehensive A+ notes will be provided in each subject. Dates & Times: Year 11 & 12 Winter School Sat 30 June 2018 Sun 1 July 2018 Mon 2 July 2018 Tue 3 July 2018 Wed 4 July 2018 Thur 5 July 2018. 9am 6pm 9am 5pm 9am 6pm 9am 5pm 9am 5pm 9am 5pm Unit 3 Chemistry (Session 1) Unit 4 Chemistry (Session 1) Unit 3 Maths Methods Unit 4 Maths Methods Unit 3 Biology (Session 1) Unit 4 Biology (Session 1).

6 (Session 1) (Session 1) Unit 3 Physics Unit 4 Physics Repeat sessions of a particular subject are identical. For example, Sessions 1 & 2 of the Unit 3 Biology lectures are the same lectures, held on different days. Each full day subject lecture includes a one hour lunch break, as well as short breaks throughout the day. What Will be Addressed at the Unit 2 & Unit 4 Head Start Lectures? Accounting (Unit 4) high quality responses that present arguments factors affecting parliament & courts in law- Topics include: Recording & valuing stock, & points of view that employ language specific making; sources of law reform including the depreciation methods & disposal, balance day to the exam assessment criteria. VLRC, Royal Commissions & parliamentary adjustments, balance sheets, income & cash committees. flow statements & the profitability, liquidity, English (Unit 4). efficiency & stability of a business. The Unit 4 English lectures focus on Area of Maths Methods (Unit 2). Study 1 Reading & Comparing Texts.

7 You will Topics include: Exponential, logarithmic, Biology (Unit 4). explore the meaningful connections between circular & inverse functions, finding derivatives Topics include: Changes in the genetic makeup by rule & by using first principles, applications your chosen pair of texts, & compare the of a population, changes in biodiversity over in differentiation, integration techniques &. features of the texts on which comparisons time, determining relatedness between species, definite integrals. are based, while learning how to correctly human change over time, DNA manipulation, use textual evidence to support comparative Maths Methods (Unit 4). biological knowledge & society & the Practical analysis. We will discuss important similarities Topics include: Anti-differentiation techniques, Investigation. & differences, & explore how the texts deal integration by recognition, definite integrals, Business Management (Unit 4) with similar or related ideas or themes from areas under & between curves, calculation &.

8 Topics include: Business change; key different perspectives to reflect particular values. interpretation of the probability, mean, median, performance indicators (KPIs) as sources for You will also learn how to analyse the interplay variance & standard deviation for discrete, change & driving & restraining forces; Theories between character & setting, voice & structure, binomial, continuous & normal distributions. on change (Lewin, Porter leadership & how ideas, issues & themes are conveyed. in change management; employee resistance; The features of comparative analysis: structure, Physics (Unit 4). change & stakeholders & corporate social conventions & language, including relevant Topics include: Types of waves & their responsibility. metalanguage will also be discussed. properties, wave interactions & standing waves. The development of the wave theory for light Chemistry (Unit 2) & the photon model (including Young's double Topics include: Structure, bonding & properties TSFX is fantastic, I don't slit experiment, Planck's & de Broglie's work), of water, solubility tables & curves, specific know how I would have wave interference & diffraction, photoelectric heat capacity, latent heat, writing balanced effect, matter waves, atomic absorption &.)

9 Equations, gravimetric, acid-base & redox made it through Year 12 emission spectra, energy levels & the photon reactions, concentration & unit conversions, without them. model for light. The quantum nature of light &. the pH scale & colorimetry. Student, Firbank Grammar School Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. Chemistry (Unit 4) Psychology (Unit 4). Topics include: IR, NMR & mass spectroscopy, Health & Human Development (Unit 4) Topics include: The nature of consciousness, acid-base & redox titrations, properties & Topics include: Health, wellbeing & human the importance of sleep, effects of sleep reactions of key organic families, IUPAC naming, development in a global context, how factors disturbances & possible treatments, defining structural/geometric/optical isomers, reaction such as physical conditions, socio-economics, mental health, factors that contribute to the pathways, structure & bonding of the major sustainability, globalisation & climate change development & progression of mental health biochemical groups, enzymes & co-enzymes, contribute to health, global action to improve disorders, application of a biopsychosocial food, vitamins & calorimetry.

10 Global health by Governments & non- approach to explain specific phobia, English (Unit 2) Government organisations (UN & WHO) & maintenance of mental health, & a practical Sustainable Development Goals. investigation based on research methodologies. Reading & Comparing Texts: You will explore the ways authors convey ideas, issues & Legal Studies (Unit 4) Specialist Maths (Unit 4). themes (such as settings, events & characters) Topics include: Law-making by parliament Topics include: Setting up, solving & verifying in texts & the features of comparative analysis. division of law-making power; the solutions of differential equations, direction Analysing & Presenting Argument: Learn how Australian Constitution & its role as a check (slope) fields, Euler's method (first-order to dissect & analyse the ways authors try to on law-making; the role of the High Court approximation), kinematics, vector calculus, influence audiences (including logic, reasoning & & referenda; changing law-making powers Newtonian mechanics, sample means &.)