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General Links
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A-Z Guide - Vic Office for Youth
The Victorian Office for Youth have put together a great listing of services and resources that are relevant to young Victorians - people like you. Got a question? Here's the answer.
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Overview of Accounting
This links to an overview of accounting. This summary explains what accounting involves, the major concepts, the major definitions and the major accounting reports.
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Reach Out!
Sometimes it can be difficult to cope with the stress of the VCE. The Reach Out! website offers information and support that can help you deal with exam stress, manage study time, and work through some of the difficulties and challenges you can face after finishing school, such as staying safe during schoolies or leaving home.
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Text Talk Archive
From The Outsider to Triage, visit The Education Age Text Talk archive to read reviews on a wide range of different VCE texts.
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the source
The Federal Government's Youth Portal - the source, is a fantastic resource for young people. Offering games, advice and updates on stuff that we actually care about, it's well worth a look.
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VCAA
The bane of your existence - the assessment board. The VCAA site features all the jargon laden documents you need to play the VCE game, and then some. So if you wan to know more about the VCE, how it's constructed and where it's headed, check it out.
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Vibewire
"If you're not creating the FUTURE, you're living in the PAST"
If you are interested in film, art, music, politics, activism, zines, theatre and more, join the conversation at www.vibewire.net
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VTAC
The one stop shop for all your tertiary preference selection needs. In other words, the site you'll visit for making your Course selections and getting your ENTER!
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Super Study
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Accounting
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Accounting Online Learning Centre
This is a link to the McGraw-Hill Accounting website. It is an excellent resource, providing further explanations of topics in a lecture form. Particularly useful is the interactive quizzes that are provided.
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CPA Australia
Have you thought further than what you will do after you finish year 12? What about further - after you finish university?
CPA Australia provides information from different firms to work experience placements to buddy programs.
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Online Accounting Study
This site provide a few more explanations of some for the accounting concepts. Also explains the GAAP accounting standards (NB: this is not included in the VCE accounting course)
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Australian History
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Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame
This is the homepage of a museum located in Queensland, which focuses on the settlement of rural and outback Australia. If you are looking for information on colonial and settler experiences, this is an interesting site to have a look at. Having said that, the site may be particularly helpful for Area of Study 1.
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Dogpile Search
This is my favourite search engine on the web. Dogpile is a 'searcher of search engines' - i.e. instead of just searching the Internet for a specific topic, it searches the listings on all the search engines as well. This means you can look for stuff on heaps of different search engines at once - how's that for saving time?
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Hot Topics
If you are writing about contemporary issues and their relationship with history, this site may be of use. It contains information on current topics of interest in the news.
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The Great War In Australia
This site lists a comprehensive set of links to Australian World War I resources.
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Business Management
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Units 1/2 Links
A great collection of links relevant to Units 1 & 2 Business Management.
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Units 3/4 Links
A comprehensive set of links to everything you need to know for Units 3/4.
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Chemistry
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Application of Catalysts
Catalysts used in various industrial processes. Especially, see Sulfuric Acid.
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Chemistry 101
A really really comprehensive collection of explanations and tips for Chemistry. It's based in the US, so some of the terminology is different. Be specific when looking at this site, as there's lot of information that's not relevant to VCE.
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Chemistry Exams
Test papers with questions on atomic theory, kinetics, stoichiometry, balancing equations, redox reactions, acid-base, organic chem etc. Good for revision.
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Periodic Table
Anything you want/need to know about the periodic table.
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Yahoo Science Directory
Contains links to many relevant and helpful sites for Year 11 and 12 Chemistry, including chromatography and spectroscopy, electrochemistry, periodic table, organic chemistry, physical chemistry, polymers, etc.
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Economics
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Environmental economics
Ever wondered what happens to the environment as a result of economic actions, this site will inform you.
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Reserve Bank of Australia
Great site for commentary on the operation of monetary policy.
See also the RBA ChartPacks, a comprehensive summary of the relavant economic indicators.
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Stock Exchange
How about that Aussie dollar, everything you need to know about our exchange rate.
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VCAA Economics Info
The VCAA site is important, especially the examiner's reports section. Economics Chief Examiner Anita Forsyth is very specific about what she expects from students, so reading her exam reports from the last two years is a good way to familisarise yourself with exam techniques.
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VCE Economics
Another privately run site. Probably the more comprehensive of the two listed here. Definitely worth perusing.
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VCE Economics Victoria
A privately run site with some helpful statistics and links.
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English
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Oral Presentation Tips
Some extra tips on this new component of VCE English.
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SOFweb's English resource links
A big list of Internet English resources, perhaps worth a quick look.
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French
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alliance francaise
Need we say more?
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France2
French TV chanel. You can download news on realplayer.
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Liberation
French daily newspaper online.
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research engine
It's better to look for anything french on a french internet research engine is it not?
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Search for French articles and the likes - easily!
A good way to search for current material which is useful for creating informative or evaluative pieces for CAT 1 and for reading relavent articles to prepare for CAT 3.
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Further Mathematics
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Australian Bureau of Statistics
Yes, it's a government site, but let's overlook that - it has a huge range of stats on everything from internet use to crime. And, considering the compulsory Core module is based entirely around stats, it's well worth a visit!
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Bankchoice
Here you'll find info on everything money - loans, deposits, and every type of interest you can imagine. Many of these topics are covered in both the Number Patters and Applications and the Business-Related Maths modules. So, if you have an interest in interest, this is definitely the place to go.
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Maths Jokes
Very possibly the corniest collection of maths jokes ever compiled, but they do make a nice change from stats and graphs. Plus, they come complete with musical accompaniment, so turn up the volume!
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Qantas
Here you'll find good examples of flight graphs, which are covered in the optional Networks and Decision Mathematics module. Plus, you you can't go past those really cheap flights to France...
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Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority
The official site of Further Maths. Here you'll find the study design, sample questions and past exam papers. Make a visit - after all, they're the ones that mark, grade and scale. Just prepare for the onslaught of jargon...
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Legal Studies
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Constitutional Critique
Opinions and criticisms of Australia's Constitution. Very good essay.
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Exam preparation
Are you ready for the exams?
Test yourself, here are a number of questions and answers.
Practice exams are the best way to revise!
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Search engine for Legal!
This is an excellent place to start if you are seeking information with a SAC or an outcome.
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The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia
The Australian Constitution Act. Original Version online! (This is cool because all you have to do is click on the numbers, i.e. you dont have to flick pages etc.)
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VCE Legal Information Buffet
An excellent smorgasboard of all the information to do with Legal Studies.
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Literature
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Voice of the Shuttle
A fantastically comprehensive site, with links and information relating to anything humanities, from literature to music to theatre to dance to architecture.
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Mathematical Methods
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Melbourne Uni, Mathematics and Statistics Dept.
If you're interested in getting some information on university level maths, this site is a good start. This site also contains a whole lot of links to other maths related sites.
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