QCE and QCIA policy and procedures handbook v7.0

Certificates & qualifications

• Queensland Certificate of Education
  • About the QCE
  • QCE eligibility & requirements
    • Core courses of study
    • Preparatory courses of study
    • Complementary courses of study
    • Literacy & numeracy requirements
    • Academic integrity requirement
  • Premier's QCE Student Awards
    • About the Awards
    • Categories and criteria
    • Sponsors
    • Awards ceremony
    • Alumni stories
    • Award winners 2025
    • Past Award winners
  • Recognised studies
    • Lists of recognised studies
    • Recognised studies - applications
  • Learning accounts
  • Transfer students and the QCE
  • QCE resources
• QCE & QCIA handbook
  • 1 Senior schooling in Queensland
    • 1.1 Background to the QCE system
    • 1.2 Key elements of the QCE system
    • 1.3 Defining characteristics of the QCE system
    • 1.4 Equity in education
    • 1.5 Partnership with schools
  • 2 Queensland Certificate of Education (QCE)
    • 2.1 Eligibility for a QCE
    • 2.2 Categories of learning
    • 2.3 Additional VET QCE credit rules
    • 2.4 Recognised studies
    • 2.5 Transfer students
    • 2.6 The Student Management app and the Student Portal
    • 2.7 Issue of a QCE
  • 3 Queensland Certificate of Individual Achievement (QCIA)
    • 3.1 Eligibility for a QCIA
    • 3.2 The QCIA process
    • 3.3 QCIA reporting
    • 3.4 QCIA quality assurance processes
    • 3.5 Applying for review of QCIA information
  • 4 Queensland curriculum
    • 4.1 Syllabuses
    • 4.2 Delivery approaches to curriculum
    • 4.3 Resources
    • 4.4 Syllabus development
  • 5 Vocational education and training (VET)
    • 5.1 VET Quality Framework
    • 5.2 VET in Queensland schools
    • 5.3 VET procedures for school RTOs
    • 5.4 VET roles and responsibilities
    • 5.5 VET results and AQF certification
  • 6 Access arrangements and reasonable adjustments (AARA)
    • 6.1 Principles
    • 6.2 Eligibility for AARA
    • 6.3 Roles and responsibilities for AARA
    • 6.4 Reporting and approving processes for AARA
    • 6.5 Illness and misadventure
    • 6.6 Exceptional circumstances
  • 7 The assessment system
    • 7.1 Principles and attributes of assessment
    • 7.2 Assessment literacy
    • 7.3 Assessment requirements
    • 7.4 Developing a comparable assessment instrument
  • 8 School assessment policies
    • 8.1 Understanding academic integrity
    • 8.2 Integrating learning and assessment
    • 8.3 Administering internal assessment
    • 8.4 Developing a school assessment policy
  • 9 Internal assessment — Quality assurance
    • 9.1 Quality management system
    • 9.2 Course of study (Applied syllabuses)
    • 9.3 Unit 1 and Unit 2
    • 9.4 Applied quality assurance (Units 3 and 4)
    • 9.5 Endorsement (Units 3 and 4)
    • 9.6 Confirmation (Units 3 and 4)
  • 10 External assessment
    • 10.1 External assessment roles and responsibilities
    • 10.2 Developing and marking external assessment
    • 10.3 Scheduling external assessment
    • 10.4 External assessment venues
    • 10.5 Preparing for external assessments
    • 10.6 Administering external assessments
  • 11 Determining and reporting results
    • 11.1 Determining results
    • 11.2 School reporting responsibilities
    • 11.3 QCAA reporting responsibilities
    • 11.4 Subject result ratification
  • 12 Roles and responsibilities
    • 12.1 Principal
    • 12.2 Principal’s delegate
    • 12.3 Subject leaders
    • 12.4 Teachers
    • 12.5 QCAA assessors
  • 13 Administration
    • 13.1 The QCAA Portal
    • 13.2 Student Management app
    • 13.3 Retaining records and student work
• Queensland Certificate of Individual Achievement
  • About the QCIA
  • Registration & learning accounts
  • Planning with the GIL
  • Quality assurance processes
  • Resources
• Senior Education Profile
  • SEP for Year 12 students
  • SEP for non-school students
  • SEP calendar
  • Finishing dates for Year 12 students
  • Authenticating a SEP certificate or statement
• Replacement copies of certificates
• Equivalency of non-Queensland school qualifications
  • Equivalency Education Statement application
  • Application notes