Assessment Grids

• Year 12 Business Studies HSC Assessment Program 2008/2009
• Year 12 Chemistry HSC Assessment Program 2008/2009
• Year 12 Chinese Background Speakers HSC Assessment Program 2008/2009
• Year 12 Economics HSC Assessment Program 2008/2009
• Year 12 English ESL HSC Assessment Program 2008/2009
• Year 12 Information Processes and Technology HSC Assessment Program 2008/ 2009
• Year 12 Japanese Beginners HSC Assessment Program 2008/2009
• Year 12 Mathematics 2 Unit HSC Assessment Program 2008/2009
• Year 12 Mathematics Extension 1 HSC Assessment Program 2008/2009
• Year 12 Mathematics Extension 2 HSC Assessment Program 2008/2009
• Year 12 Physics HSC Assessment Program 2008/2009

Malpractice in HSC Assessment Tasks

If you copy the work of others (plagiarise), you will be awarded a zero mark for the Assessment Task. Please ask your teacher for more details about what constitutes plagiarism.

A letter will be sent to your parents notifying them that you have plagiarised.

St James College regards plagiarism as a very serious offence and you may be expelled for offences of this nature.

Late Submission of HSC Assessment Tasks

If you submit an Assessment Task after the due date with no legitimate excuse for lateness, you will incur the following penalties:

- 20% of the total marks for the Assessment Task for every day that the work is late. Work that is submitted after five (5) school days will receive ZERO marks.

- your parents will receive a warning letter from the school, advising them that you have not submitted your Assessment Task by the due date.

If you are required to hand in an Assessment Task to your teacher and you are unable to find your teacher, you must hand in your Assessment Task to another teacher in the Staff-room.

Exceptions:

1. If you believe that you will be unable to submit your Assessment Task by the due date for a serious and legitimate reason, you may request an official extension from your teacher BEFORE the due date. If your teacher grants you an official extension, you will not be penalised.
2. If you are seriously ill and unable to submit an Assessment Task, you must ensure that you:

• obtain a medical certificate from a registered medical practitioner, which you must present to Student Services on the first day of return to the College. Certificates from herbal medicine centres, acupuncturists and non-registered medical doctors are not acceptable.
• attach a photocopy of this medical certificate to your Assessment Task.
• submit your Assessment Task on the first day of return to the College.

What happens if I miss an assessment task?

It is very important that you do NOT miss an Assessment Task. Failure to complete a Task without acceptable reason will result in no marks being awarded for that Task.

Absences for reasons such as taking holidays or misreading the timetable are NOT considered absences for an acceptable reason. Illness and misadventure are generally the only acceptable reasons.

If you miss a Task, or fail to meet the deadline for handing in a Task, because of illness or misadventure, you must take the following steps:

· Ring St James College on 8217 9611 to let your teacher know that you will be absent from the task. If the reason for absence is illness you must obtain a medical certificate from a registered doctor, which you must present to you teacher or the Principal on the first day of return to the College. A certificate from herbal medicine centres, acupuncturists and non-registered medical doctors are not acceptable.

· Immediately on your return to College, ask your class teacher whether you are eligible for an extension of time or if you will be required to do an alternative task.

It is important that you note the following regulations:

· If you miss a Task because of an unavoidable absence, which you have valid and legitimate explanation, you might have to do that Task or an alternative Task, or, in exceptional cases the Principal can authorise the use of an estimate.

· If you are required to hand in a task to your teacher on a certain day and you are unable to find your teacher, you are to hand in the work to the Office.

St James College is located in the heart of Sydney's education precinct, next to the University of Technology and a short stroll to Sydney University. The campus is opposite Central Railway Station and a major bus interchange, so is handy to public transport.

St James College is also a short walk from major Sydney icons such as Darling Harbour, Sydney Town Hall, Sydney Tower and Sydney Aquarium. as well as Chinatown where there are many cheap restaurants and cafes, a cinema, shopping complex and Paddy's Markets for students to stroll to during their lunch break or after class.

Style Guide for Assessment Tasks

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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

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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.