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Public health guidance recommends reducing outbreak risk from large student cohorts taking the test together. A new date will be confirmed shortly to provide schools and students certainty. Students in quarantine due to positive cases or primary close contacts, and schools identified as exposure sites, will receive a GAT exemption without disadvantaging results through the Consideration of Educational Disadvantage process.",{"@graph":69,"@context":122},[70,84,105],{"@type":71,"itemListElement":72},"BreadcrumbList",[73,77,79,82],{"item":74,"name":75,"@type":76,"position":8},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":78,"name":9,"@type":76,"position":14},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/",{"item":80,"name":35,"@type":76,"position":81},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/healthcare/",3,{"item":83,"name":65,"@type":76,"position":19},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/gat-to-be-rescheduled-to-keep-school-communities-safe-statement/316106/",{"url":83,"name":65,"@type":85,"image":86,"author":91,"headline":65,"publisher":94,"fileFormat":97,"inLanguage":63,"description":67,"dateModified":98,"datePublished":99,"encodingFormat":97,"isAccessibleForFree":100,"interactionStatistic":101},"DigitalDocument",{"url":87,"@type":88,"width":89,"height":90},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/gat-to-be-rescheduled-to-keep-school-communities-safe-statement/316106.png","ImageObject",300,407,{"name":92,"@type":93},"Skyler","Person",{"url":74,"name":95,"@type":96},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-10-22","2026-09-20",true,{"@type":102,"interactionType":103,"userInteractionCount":39},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":104},"ViewAction",{"@type":106,"mainEntity":107},"FAQPage",[108,114,118],{"name":109,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":111},"Why is the GAT being rescheduled for Year 12 students in Victoria?","Question",{"text":112,"@type":113},"The GAT is being rescheduled to reduce the risk of a coronavirus outbreak in schools, based on public health recommendations amid ongoing community transmission in metropolitan Melbourne.","Answer",{"name":115,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":116},"Will students who are quarantined or connected to exposure sites be affected by the rescheduled test?",{"text":117,"@type":113},"No. Students who are in quarantine as positive cases or Primary Close Contacts, and schools deemed exposure sites, will receive an exemption from the GAT without disadvantaging results.",{"name":119,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":120},"How will results be handled when the CED process is used in 2021?",{"text":121,"@type":113},"The Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority will use the CED process, considering multiple data sources alongside exam results, and will include assessments of each student’s individual coronavirus-related impacts, including learning disruption and mental health challenges.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":83,"og:type":124,"og:title":65,"og:site_name":95,"og:description":67},"article",{"robots":126,"canonical":83},"index,follow",{"doc_id":128,"site_id":62},316106,1790172117,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":131},{"doc_id":128,"user_id":132,"nickname":92,"user_avatar":133,"doc_module":4,"category_id":34,"category_name":35,"doc_title":65,"doc_description":67,"doc_content":134,"file_id":135,"file_url":136,"file_type":137,"file_size":138,"view_count":39,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":8,"is_downloadable":8,"audit_status":8,"page_count":8,"language":139,"language_code":63,"site_id":62,"html_lang":63,"table_of_contents":140,"faqs":141,"seo_title":142,"seo_description":67,"update_tm":143,"read_time":81},2336464648746,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_276721f389ce27ea32af1340a28f341c","Tuesday, 10 August 2021  \nGAT TO BE RESCHEDULED TO KEEP SCHOOL COMMUNITIES SAFE  \nThis year’s General Achievement Test (GAT) for Year 12 students will be rescheduled to keep Victorian students, teachers and broader school communities safe from coronavirus.  \nWith ongoing community transmission still occurring in metropolitan Melbourne, the Department of Health’s public health team has recommended the GAT be rescheduled, reducing the risk of a further outbreak with large cohorts of students taking the test together.  \nAs Victorians work to run the current outbreak of the Delta variant to ground, a new date will be determined in the coming days to give schools and students certainty that the rescheduled test will be safe to go ahead.  \nOn the rescheduled date, students who are in quarantine as positive coronavirus cases or Primary Close Contacts, as well as schools deemed exposure sites, will receive an exemption from the GAT. This will not disadvantage students’ results and will be taken into account with the Consideration of Educational Disadvantage process.  \nIn a normal year, individual students are assessed for special consideration on a case-by-case basis – but the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority will again use the CED process to finalise VCE results for each and every student completing one or more VCE or scored VCE VET Unit 3-4 sequence in 2021.  \nConsistent with the approach in 2020, the process considers a range of data alongside exam results to calculate final VCE results-like the GAT, comparisons of performance across all assessments and schools and other learning data.  \nThe process will also include assessments of the individual impact of coronavirus on each student including school closures, direct impacts on student’ health, ongoing issues with remote learning and mental health challenges.  \nThe Department of Education and Training and the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA) will support schools in the coming weeks to make appropriate COVIDSafe plans to hold the GAT.  \nQuotes attributable to Minister for Education James Merlino  \n“Victorian students have done an amazing job adapting to another year of disruptions – but we can’t risk another outbreak in a school, so we’re rescheduling the GAT to keep every school community across Victoria safe.”  \n“Whether it’s special consideration for every student in Year 12, or extra mental health and tutoring support in schools, we want any student who is struggling to know that we’re here to support them all the way.”","cbCaigs2mFkNMpOn","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigs2mFkNMpOn","pdf",145964,"English","# GAT rescheduling rationale\n## Public health guidance and Melbourne context\n# Impacts and exemptions on the rescheduled date\n## Quarantine, close contacts, and exposure sites\n## Consideration of Educational Disadvantage (CED)\n# Final VCE results approach in 2021\n## Data range used beyond exam results\n## Individual coronavirus impact assessments\n# Support for COVIDSafe test arrangements\n## COVIDSafe planning for schools\n# Minister’s statements","[{\"question\":\"Why is the GAT being rescheduled for Year 12 students in Victoria?\",\"answer\":\"The GAT is being rescheduled to reduce the risk of a coronavirus outbreak in schools, based on public health recommendations amid ongoing community transmission in metropolitan Melbourne.\"},{\"question\":\"Will students who are quarantined or connected to exposure sites be affected by the rescheduled test?\",\"answer\":\"No. Students who are in quarantine as positive cases or Primary Close Contacts, and schools deemed exposure sites, will receive an exemption from the GAT without disadvantaging results.\"},{\"question\":\"How will results be handled when the CED process is used in 2021?\",\"answer\":\"The Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority will use the CED process, considering multiple data sources alongside exam results, and will include assessments of each student’s individual coronavirus-related impacts, including learning disruption and mental health challenges.\"}]","GAT TO BE RESCHEDULED TO KEEP SCHOOL COMMUNITIES SAFE - Statement | PDF",1789909919]