See the list: The average study scores for every VCE subject
Language students are delivering some of the highest study scores while industry based units fall behind. See how your subjects stack up.
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Victorian students are performing best in language subjects while food and agricultural studies deliver the lowest average marks during VCE.
The 2021 scaling report released by the Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre (VTAC) details the average study score for almost every subject a student can undertake in Year 11 and 12.
Analysis of the 2021 VCE data has revealed students who studied Latin in 2021 delivered an average study score of 45, the highest average score for any VCE subject last year.
Other languages such as Hebrew and Chinese dominated the highest scoring subjects, with students averaging a 40.2 in Hebrew and 39.6 in Chinese Second Language.
Greek, Italian, Japanese Hindi study scores all fell within the mid to high 30s.
Meanwhile, the Agricultural and Horticultural unit was among the lowest scoring subjects last year with an average study score of 23.9.
Food Studies averaged a 24.3 study score, while Industry and Enterprise students achieved a median study score of 24.9.
Product design and Technology delivered a 24.8 average study score.
VTAC publishing manager Alex Lum said some subjects’ average study scores and scaling were evaluated by taking into account how many high-achieving students undertook the class.
“The scaling is compensating for the level of competition in the study,” Mr Lum said.
“You’ll find more high achieving students are doing more difficult subjects like specialist mathematics or chemistry,” he said.
The second highest scoring subject outside a language unit was Specialist mathematics, with students averaging a 40.5 study score last year.
“There are subjects that have a lot of high achieving students who will still perform really well in their exams and they’ll perform really well in their assessments, but because the moderation is taking place, they kind of get moved down because there’s so many high achieving students in that subject,”
Mr Lum urged students to select their VCE subjects based on their talents and interests rather than choosing a unit that scaled ‘up’ when ATARs were being calculated.
“They’re (students) actually better off doing a subject that they know they enjoy and that they’re good at,” Mr Lum said.
“It’s better to score a 40 raw that gets scaled down to a 36 rather than scoring a 20 in something that scales up to a 24.”
Search the list of every subject offered during VCE to see which units perform best and which subjects are trailing behind.
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