Assessment Grids

• Year 10 Commerce Assessment Program 2009
• Year 10 English ESL Assessment Program 2009
• Year 10 Geography Assessment Program 2009
• Year 10 History Assessment Program 2009
• Year 10 Information and Software Technology Assessment Program 2009
• Year 10 Mathematics Assessment Program 2009
• YEAR 10 PDHPE and SPORT Assessment Program 2009
• Year 10 Science Assessment Program 2009

During your time at St James College, you will be expected to organise your materials for class, as well as handing in formal work for your teachers to mark. The following is a guide to help you make the right decisions with your work to make sure that you can be a successful student in the HSC.

Style Guide for Assessment tasks

When you are submitting assessment tasks please make sure that your work meets the following guidelines. This will ensure that your teacher can read your work and give you the best feedback.

Before handing in your work to your teacher make sure that your work is:

• The best work you can do
• Handed in before 4.25pm on the day that it is due.
• Submitted with a coversheet that has your name, student number, teacher class and question answered. (These can be downloaded from the SJC website)
• Typed on a computer
• Written in Times New Roman
• 12pt font
• 1.5 spacing
• non-indented paragraphs
• 15cm left margin
• Headings in Bold
• Spelling and Grammar Checked
• Edited
• Referenced
  
  Please note: Plagiarism is unacceptable at St James College.
  This means that if you hand in any work that is not your own, you will receive a mark of zero.

Referencing Guide / Footnotes

Referencing is a very important part of researching your work. It shows your teacher that you have used a range of material in your study to help you submit the best work that you can do.

Students at St James College reference their work using footnotes. When you use information that you have not created yourself, you must add a footnote to the end of the sentence. The footnote is a small number that relates to a list of the materials that you have used at the bottom of the page. It looks like this. You should try to use more than one type of material, for example, in an ESL essay you might use a newspaper, and two books, and a film.

How to footnote a book :

1 Ronald Takaki, Iron Cages: Race and Culture in 19th-Century America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990), p. 113.
or:
2 Ronald Takaki, Iron Cages: Race and Culture in 19th-Century America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990), p. 113.

When the book is edited:
3 Edward Chiera, They Wrote on Clay, ed. George C. Cameron (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1938), p. 42.

How to footnote an essay in a journal:
4 Samuel M. Thompson, "The Authority of Law," Ethics 75 (October 1964): 16-24.

How to footnote an article in a newspaper:
5 "Amazing Amazon Region," New York Times, 12 January 1969, sec. 4, p. E11.

How to footnote a radio or television program:
6 TVNZ, "The Amazing Mollusc," 17 April 1972.

How to footnote a film:
7 Lee Tamahori, Director, Once Were Warriors, 1995.

How to footnote a Web page:
23 Jim Zwick, Anti-Imperialism in the United States, 1898-1935, http://www.rochester.ican.net/~fjzwick/ail98-35.html (May 1997).

Task Cover Sheet

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All students at St James College are required to attach a Task Cover Sheet to the front of all assessment completed. The cover sheet must be fully completed and signed. The teacher will sign the bottom part of the sheet and return it to you. Keep this as your proof that you have handed in the task.