VCE High Performance Tutoring: Biology 3 / 4
- Cost: $105.00 per week
- Duration: 16 weeks
- Delivery: Face to face / Online virtual classroom
Short Courses Australia offer VCE students a 16-Week Exam Preparation Program (EPP) for Biology 3/4.
This program focuses on exam planning, historical exam revision and simulated exam practice under the guidance of our team of secondary school teachers and recent VCE graduates.
Our objective is to support students through to exam day to achieve their best possible scored result.
Students attend a weekly 1 hour and 50 minute practical workshop, which can be attended face to face at our Collins Street, Melbourne CBD training centre, or via online virtual classroom.
Students also participate in a weekly 50 minute tutorial session delivered via online virtual classroom. This additional weekly session allows time for tasks to be reviewed, questions to be asked and targeted support to be provided.
Exam Preparation Program (EPP) Methodology
Short Courses Australia are established and experienced educators entrenched within the Victorian secondary school sector.
The EPP supports VCE students to position themselves to achieve their highest ATAR score possible.
The EPP course structure is results-driven by design to enable high performance learning and outcomes. Students attend a weekly workshop and tutorial that focus on the precise steps required to dissect examination responses, reconstruct them to an improved standard, and deliver the strongest possible response on exam day.
For the final 16 weeks of Year 12, right up to the final VCE examination, Short Courses Australia will support each EPP enrolled student to:
- Learn from engaging and dedicated educators
- Critique examination responses from recent high-performing VCE students
- Practise examination responses and clarify questions during weekly workshops and tutorials
- Receive individual feedback and targeted homework focused on examination response improvement
- Complete weekly homework to consolidate learning specific to exam-structured responses
- Participate in a methodical exam preparation process, including simulated practice, response review, identification of improvement areas and targeted consolidation
- Develop effective examination planning and time allocation strategies
VCE Tutor Support Ratios
Short Courses Australia employ VCE subject specialists to deliver tutoring services. Our employment selection policy engages a range of VCE expertise, from current secondary school teachers to top-performing VCE graduates, ensuring currency in best practice for School Assessed Coursework (SAC) and examination preparation.
The weekly 1 hour and 50 minute practical workshop class size is capped at 20 students and is facilitated by a Lead Tutor. A secondary Support Tutor also attends each workshop to provide extra student guidance and coaching.
The weekly 50 minute tutorial session is delivered via online virtual classroom. The tutorial session provides a less formal 5 Students to 1 Tutor ratio that allows for exam tasks set within the workshop to be reviewed, questions to be asked and targeted individual support to be provided.
Student Portal
Students receive a unique login and gain access to subject resources housed within the student portal. Students can access course study notes, historical examinations, and utilise a messaging service to communicate directly with tutors.
Costs
The total cost for participation in the VCE Exam Preparation Program (EPP) for Specialist Mathematics 3/4 is $1,680.00, equating to $105.00 per week over 16 weeks.
Parents and guardians of students are invoiced at Week 1 and Week 9 of the 16 week program. Student fees and charges are collected in accordance with Short Courses Australia's Fees & Charges Policy.
Student Privacy & Safety
Short Courses Australia collects and protects student data in accordance with its published Privacy Policy.
All staff employed by Short Courses Australia hold a current Working With Children check.
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Secure your place in Short Courses Australia's 16-Week Exam Preparation Program (EPP) for Biology 3/4.
* Pay at once OR
* $840.00 is invoiced at enrolment and $840 is invoiced at week 9 of the program
04:20 PM - 06:10 PM
$1,680.00
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Course Timetable: VCE Biology 3/4
The 2026 VCE Exam Preparation Program
Week 1
06:10 PM
29 June 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Introduce the structure of the VCE Biology exam, including how marks are often gained and lost.
- Establish how EPP will be run. E.g. content revision, timed application and personalised feedback each week.
- Revise the core skills that underpin success across the whole course.
- Map the VCAA Biology exam structure, timing and mark distribution.
- Complete a short diagnostic using recent Section A and Section B questions.
- Practise reading-time decisions: scan command terms and high-value questions.
- Set response rules: answer directly, use precise biology terms, match marks.
07:55 PM
02 July 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 2
06:10 PM
06 July 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Review core skills from previous lesson.
- Revise nucleic acids, proteins, genes and gene expression from Unit 3 AOS1.
- Practice transcription, translation, mutation and DNA-RNA-protein links.
- Work through short-answer and labelled-diagram questions in VCAA style.
- Train definition and explanation skills using precise, non-vague wording.
- Learning strategies: active recall, comparison tables, timed short-answer practice, error analysis.
07:55 PM
09 July 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 3
06:10 PM
13 July 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Revise gene regulation and DNA manipulation: PCR, enzymes, plasmids and CRISPR.
- Use biotechnology case-study questions drawn from recent VCAA papers.
- Practice, compare, explain, justify and evaluate responses for higher-mark items.
- Learn to pull evidence from the stem and link each step to biology knowledge.
- Learning strategies: worked-example comparison, dual coding, mistake tracking, retrieval practice.
07:55 PM
16 July 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 4
06:10 PM
20 July 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Revise photosynthesis: chloroplast structure, pigments, light stage and Calvin cycle.
- Apply knowledge to graphs, experiments and rate-of-photosynthesis questions.
- Compare C3, C4 and CAM adaptations in exam-style responses.
- Focus on cause-and-effect explanations instead of listing isolated facts.
- Learning strategies: active recall, stepwise modelling, error analysis, response scaffolding.
07:55 PM
23 July 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 5
06:10 PM
27 July 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Revise cellular respiration: glycolysis, Krebs cycle, ETC and anaerobic pathways.
- Connect substrates, products, locations and ATP yield in exam questions.
- Practice sequencing steps clearly in short-and extended-response answers.
- Match explanation depth to the mark allocation and wording of the question.
- Learning strategies: interleaving, timed practice, worked examples, close question analysis.
07:55 PM
30 July 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 6
06:10 PM
03 August 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Complete a mixed Unit 3 question bank on molecular genetics and biochemical pathways.
- Use timed sets so students switch topics the way the final exam requires.
- Refine multiple-choice elimination and 4- to 6-mark response structure.
- Start a correction log for content gaps, wording issues and careless errors.
- Learning strategies: graph interpretation drills, active recall, exam language drilling, error analysis.
07:55 PM
06 August 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 7
06:10 PM
10 August 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Begin Unit 4 AOS1: pathogens, antigens and innate immune system defences.
- Practice compare-and-contrast and sequence questions on lines of defence.
- Clarify similar terms so students avoid definition-based mark loss.
- Build process answers that explain what happens first, next and why.
- Learning strategies: concept mapping, retrieval practice, worked-example comparison, response scaffolding.
07:55 PM
13 August 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 8
06:10 PM
17 August 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Consolidate the first half of the program through a mixed-topic revision session using historical VCE-style questions.
- Continue Unit 4 AOS1 with adaptive immunity, antibodies, vaccination and medicines.
- Use recent immunity and disease-control questions with graphs and scenarios.
- Practice justify and evaluate responses using evidence from the stem.
- Train students to stay specific instead of drifting into generic notes.
- Learning strategies: interleaving, timed retrieval, error logs, metacognitive reflection.
07:55 PM
20 August 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 9
06:10 PM
24 August 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Revise evolution basics: gene pools, allele frequencies, mutation and selection pressures.
- Practice explaining change at population level, not individual level.
- Apply gene flow and genetic drift to short-answer and data questions.
- Use correct evolutionary language about frequency, adaptation and generations.
- Learning strategies: active recall, pattern recognition, worked examples, spaced repetition.
07:55 PM
27 August 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 10
06:10 PM
31 August 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Revise evidence for evolution: fossils, biochemistry, homologous structures and phylogenies.
- Work through unfamiliar-data questions based on evidence sets and trees.
- Practice drawing conclusions before supporting them with the strongest evidence.
- Learn how to read relatedness carefully and justify it accurately.
- Learning strategies: flowchart mapping, scaffold fading, interleaving, error analysis.
07:55 PM
03 September 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 11
06:10 PM
07 September 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Complete Unit 4 AOS2 with speciation and human change over time.
- Use hominin and fossil questions that require discussion and evaluation.
- Practice weighing evidence rather than just describing features.
- Plan higher-mark answers briefly before writing.
- Learning strategies: close reading, worked-example comparison, dual coding, timed short-answer practice.
07:55 PM
10 September 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 12
06:10 PM
14 September 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Run a science-skills workshop on variables, controls, validity, reliability and error.
- Use Biology experiments to practise method-analysis and data questions.
- Write specific improvements linked directly to the weakness identified.
- Strengthen experimental-design language commonly needed in Section B.
- Learning strategies: question deconstruction, model answer comparison, error analysis, metacognitive reflection.
07:55 PM
17 September 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 13
06:10 PM
21 September 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Revisit weak areas through short reteaching, worked examples and immediate practice so students can turn feedback into improved performance.
- Strengthen confidence by showing students how to correct mistakes systematically rather than repeating them.
- Complete a strict-timing multiple-choice section using full Section A sets.
- Practice identifying topic, eliminating distractors, flagging and returning efficiently.
- Review errors by category: content, language or exam technique.
- Use results to target final revision instead of revising everything broadly.
- Learning strategies: deliberate practice, mistake correction cycles, retrieval practice, worked-example comparison.
07:55 PM
24 September 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 14
06:10 PM
05 October 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Run a substantial timed simulated exam section to build exam stamina, timing awareness and response discipline under pressure.
- Mark and review student responses in detail, focusing on common themes such as misreading the question, insufficient explanation, weak terminology or careless calculation errors.
- Use feedback to identify each student's final priority areas for improvement before the exam.
- Run a Section B workshop using recent short- and extended-answer questions.
- Turn mark allocations into answer structure before writing.
- Practice when to define, explain, compare or use evidence from data.
- Improve depth, relevance and completeness in higher-mark responses.
- Learning strategies: timed practice, exam wrappers, error logs, deliberate practice.
07:55 PM
08 October 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 15
06:10 PM
12 October 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Complete a trial paper under exam conditions.
- Rehearse pacing, section order, stamina and checking routines.
- Review terminology precision, command terms and answer completeness.
- Finish with a targeted final-improvement plan based on actual errors.
- Run a high-yield final revision review of the most examinable Units 3 & 4 topics, while answering student questions and correcting remaining weak areas through targeted practice.
07:55 PM
15 October 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 16
06:10 PM
19 October 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Consolidate the entire 16-week program through a final mixed-topic revision session centered on exam execution, confidence and strategy.
- Use the correction log to target the student's highest-yield weak areas.
- Complete selected 2024 and 2025 questions across both sections.
- Rehearse reading-time choices, pacing, checking and diagram habits.
- Finish with a clear exam-week checklist and paper-day strategy.
07:55 PM
22 October 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
VCE Examination
06:30 PM
26 October 2026
The 2026 VCE examination timetable will be published by VCAA in May.
Written examinations will be completed between Monday 26 October 2026 and Wednesday 18 November 2026
* Pay at once OR
* $840.00 is invoiced at enrolment and $840 is invoiced at week 9 of the program
* Pay at once OR
* $840.00 is invoiced at enrolment and $840 is invoiced at week 9 of the program
04:20 PM - 06:10 PM
$1,680.00
Download Timetable
Book Now
Course Timetable: VCE Biology 3/4
The 2026 VCE Exam Preparation Program
Week 1
06:10 PM
30 June 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Introduce the structure of the VCE Biology exam, including how marks are often gained and lost.
- Establish how EPP will be run. E.g. content revision, timed application and personalised feedback each week.
- Revise the core skills that underpin success across the whole course.
- Map the VCAA Biology exam structure, timing and mark distribution.
- Complete a short diagnostic using recent Section A and Section B questions.
- Practise reading-time decisions: scan command terms and high-value questions.
- Set response rules: answer directly, use precise biology terms, match marks.
07:55 PM
03 July 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 2
06:10 PM
07 July 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Review core skills from previous lesson.
- Revise nucleic acids, proteins, genes and gene expression from Unit 3 AOS1.
- Practice transcription, translation, mutation and DNA-RNA-protein links.
- Work through short-answer and labelled-diagram questions in VCAA style.
- Train definition and explanation skills using precise, non-vague wording.
- Learning strategies: active recall, comparison tables, timed short-answer practice, error analysis.
07:55 PM
10 July 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 3
06:10 PM
14 July 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Revise gene regulation and DNA manipulation: PCR, enzymes, plasmids and CRISPR.
- Use biotechnology case-study questions drawn from recent VCAA papers.
- Practice, compare, explain, justify and evaluate responses for higher-mark items.
- Learn to pull evidence from the stem and link each step to biology knowledge.
- Learning strategies: worked-example comparison, dual coding, mistake tracking, retrieval practice.
07:55 PM
17 July 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 4
06:10 PM
21 July 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Revise photosynthesis: chloroplast structure, pigments, light stage and Calvin cycle.
- Apply knowledge to graphs, experiments and rate-of-photosynthesis questions.
- Compare C3, C4 and CAM adaptations in exam-style responses.
- Focus on cause-and-effect explanations instead of listing isolated facts.
- Learning strategies: active recall, stepwise modelling, error analysis, response scaffolding.
07:55 PM
24 July 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 5
06:10 PM
28 July 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Revise cellular respiration: glycolysis, Krebs cycle, ETC and anaerobic pathways.
- Connect substrates, products, locations and ATP yield in exam questions.
- Practice sequencing steps clearly in short-and extended-response answers.
- Match explanation depth to the mark allocation and wording of the question.
- Learning strategies: interleaving, timed practice, worked examples, close question analysis.
07:55 PM
31 July 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 6
06:10 PM
04 August 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Complete a mixed Unit 3 question bank on molecular genetics and biochemical pathways.
- Use timed sets so students switch topics the way the final exam requires.
- Refine multiple-choice elimination and 4- to 6-mark response structure.
- Start a correction log for content gaps, wording issues and careless errors.
- Learning strategies: graph interpretation drills, active recall, exam language drilling, error analysis.
07:55 PM
07 August 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 7
06:10 PM
11 August 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Begin Unit 4 AOS1: pathogens, antigens and innate immune system defences.
- Practice compare-and-contrast and sequence questions on lines of defence.
- Clarify similar terms so students avoid definition-based mark loss.
- Build process answers that explain what happens first, next and why.
- Learning strategies: concept mapping, retrieval practice, worked-example comparison, response scaffolding.
07:55 PM
14 August 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 8
06:10 PM
18 August 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Consolidate the first half of the program through a mixed-topic revision session using historical VCE-style questions.
- Continue Unit 4 AOS1 with adaptive immunity, antibodies, vaccination and medicines.
- Use recent immunity and disease-control questions with graphs and scenarios.
- Practice justify and evaluate responses using evidence from the stem.
- Train students to stay specific instead of drifting into generic notes.
- Learning strategies: interleaving, timed retrieval, error logs, metacognitive reflection.
07:55 PM
21 August 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 9
06:10 PM
25 August 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Revise evolution basics: gene pools, allele frequencies, mutation and selection pressures.
- Practice explaining change at population level, not individual level.
- Apply gene flow and genetic drift to short-answer and data questions.
- Use correct evolutionary language about frequency, adaptation and generations.
- Learning strategies: active recall, pattern recognition, worked examples, spaced repetition.
07:55 PM
28 August 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 10
06:10 PM
01 September 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Revise evidence for evolution: fossils, biochemistry, homologous structures and phylogenies.
- Work through unfamiliar-data questions based on evidence sets and trees.
- Practice drawing conclusions before supporting them with the strongest evidence.
- Learn how to read relatedness carefully and justify it accurately.
- Learning strategies: flowchart mapping, scaffold fading, interleaving, error analysis.
07:55 PM
04 September 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 11
06:10 PM
08 September 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Complete Unit 4 AOS2 with speciation and human change over time.
- Use hominin and fossil questions that require discussion and evaluation.
- Practice weighing evidence rather than just describing features.
- Plan higher-mark answers briefly before writing.
- Learning strategies: close reading, worked-example comparison, dual coding, timed short-answer practice.
07:55 PM
11 September 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 12
06:10 PM
15 September 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Run a science-skills workshop on variables, controls, validity, reliability and error.
- Use Biology experiments to practise method-analysis and data questions.
- Write specific improvements linked directly to the weakness identified.
- Strengthen experimental-design language commonly needed in Section B.
- Learning strategies: question deconstruction, model answer comparison, error analysis, metacognitive reflection.
07:55 PM
18 September 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 13
06:10 PM
22 September 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Revisit weak areas through short reteaching, worked examples and immediate practice so students can turn feedback into improved performance.
- Strengthen confidence by showing students how to correct mistakes systematically rather than repeating them.
- Complete a strict-timing multiple-choice section using full Section A sets.
- Practice identifying topic, eliminating distractors, flagging and returning efficiently.
- Review errors by category: content, language or exam technique.
- Use results to target final revision instead of revising everything broadly.
- Learning strategies: deliberate practice, mistake correction cycles, retrieval practice, worked-example comparison.
07:55 PM
25 September 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 14
06:10 PM
06 October 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Run a substantial timed simulated exam section to build exam stamina, timing awareness and response discipline under pressure.
- Mark and review student responses in detail, focusing on common themes such as misreading the question, insufficient explanation, weak terminology or careless calculation errors.
- Use feedback to identify each student's final priority areas for improvement before the exam.
- Run a Section B workshop using recent short- and extended-answer questions.
- Turn mark allocations into answer structure before writing.
- Practice when to define, explain, compare or use evidence from data.
- Improve depth, relevance and completeness in higher-mark responses.
- Learning strategies: timed practice, exam wrappers, error logs, deliberate practice.
07:55 PM
09 October 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 15
06:10 PM
13 October 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Complete a trial paper under exam conditions.
- Rehearse pacing, section order, stamina and checking routines.
- Review terminology precision, command terms and answer completeness.
- Finish with a targeted final-improvement plan based on actual errors.
- Run a high-yield final revision review of the most examinable Units 3 & 4 topics, while answering student questions and correcting remaining weak areas through targeted practice.
07:55 PM
16 October 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 16
06:10 PM
20 October 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Consolidate the entire 16-week program through a final mixed-topic revision session centered on exam execution, confidence and strategy.
- Use the correction log to target the student's highest-yield weak areas.
- Complete selected 2024 and 2025 questions across both sections.
- Rehearse reading-time choices, pacing, checking and diagram habits.
- Finish with a clear exam-week checklist and paper-day strategy.
07:55 PM
23 October 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
VCE Examination
06:30 PM
27 October 2026
The 2026 VCE examination timetable will be published by VCAA in May.
Written examinations will be completed between Monday 26 October 2026 and Wednesday 18 November 2026
* Pay at once OR
* $840.00 is invoiced at enrolment and $840 is invoiced at week 9 of the program
* Pay at once OR
* $840.00 is invoiced at enrolment and $840 is invoiced at week 9 of the program
04:20 PM - 06:10 PM
$1,680.00
Download Timetable
Book Now
Course Timetable: VCE Biology 3/4
The 2026 VCE Exam Preparation Program
Week 1
06:10 PM
01 July 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Introduce the structure of the VCE Biology exam, including how marks are often gained and lost.
- Establish how EPP will be run. E.g. content revision, timed application and personalised feedback each week.
- Revise the core skills that underpin success across the whole course.
- Map the VCAA Biology exam structure, timing and mark distribution.
- Complete a short diagnostic using recent Section A and Section B questions.
- Practise reading-time decisions: scan command terms and high-value questions.
- Set response rules: answer directly, use precise biology terms, match marks.
07:55 PM
04 July 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 2
06:10 PM
08 July 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Review core skills from previous lesson.
- Revise nucleic acids, proteins, genes and gene expression from Unit 3 AOS1.
- Practice transcription, translation, mutation and DNA-RNA-protein links.
- Work through short-answer and labelled-diagram questions in VCAA style.
- Train definition and explanation skills using precise, non-vague wording.
- Learning strategies: active recall, comparison tables, timed short-answer practice, error analysis.
07:55 PM
11 July 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 3
06:10 PM
15 July 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Revise gene regulation and DNA manipulation: PCR, enzymes, plasmids and CRISPR.
- Use biotechnology case-study questions drawn from recent VCAA papers.
- Practice, compare, explain, justify and evaluate responses for higher-mark items.
- Learn to pull evidence from the stem and link each step to biology knowledge.
- Learning strategies: worked-example comparison, dual coding, mistake tracking, retrieval practice.
07:55 PM
18 July 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 4
06:10 PM
22 July 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Revise photosynthesis: chloroplast structure, pigments, light stage and Calvin cycle.
- Apply knowledge to graphs, experiments and rate-of-photosynthesis questions.
- Compare C3, C4 and CAM adaptations in exam-style responses.
- Focus on cause-and-effect explanations instead of listing isolated facts.
- Learning strategies: active recall, stepwise modelling, error analysis, response scaffolding.
07:55 PM
25 July 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 5
06:10 PM
29 July 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Revise cellular respiration: glycolysis, Krebs cycle, ETC and anaerobic pathways.
- Connect substrates, products, locations and ATP yield in exam questions.
- Practice sequencing steps clearly in short-and extended-response answers.
- Match explanation depth to the mark allocation and wording of the question.
- Learning strategies: interleaving, timed practice, worked examples, close question analysis.
07:55 PM
01 August 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 6
06:10 PM
05 August 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Complete a mixed Unit 3 question bank on molecular genetics and biochemical pathways.
- Use timed sets so students switch topics the way the final exam requires.
- Refine multiple-choice elimination and 4- to 6-mark response structure.
- Start a correction log for content gaps, wording issues and careless errors.
- Learning strategies: graph interpretation drills, active recall, exam language drilling, error analysis.
07:55 PM
08 August 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 7
06:10 PM
12 August 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Begin Unit 4 AOS1: pathogens, antigens and innate immune system defences.
- Practice compare-and-contrast and sequence questions on lines of defence.
- Clarify similar terms so students avoid definition-based mark loss.
- Build process answers that explain what happens first, next and why.
- Learning strategies: concept mapping, retrieval practice, worked-example comparison, response scaffolding.
07:55 PM
15 August 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 8
06:10 PM
19 August 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Consolidate the first half of the program through a mixed-topic revision session using historical VCE-style questions.
- Continue Unit 4 AOS1 with adaptive immunity, antibodies, vaccination and medicines.
- Use recent immunity and disease-control questions with graphs and scenarios.
- Practice justify and evaluate responses using evidence from the stem.
- Train students to stay specific instead of drifting into generic notes.
- Learning strategies: interleaving, timed retrieval, error logs, metacognitive reflection.
07:55 PM
22 August 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 9
06:10 PM
26 August 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Revise evolution basics: gene pools, allele frequencies, mutation and selection pressures.
- Practice explaining change at population level, not individual level.
- Apply gene flow and genetic drift to short-answer and data questions.
- Use correct evolutionary language about frequency, adaptation and generations.
- Learning strategies: active recall, pattern recognition, worked examples, spaced repetition.
07:55 PM
29 August 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 10
06:10 PM
02 September 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Revise evidence for evolution: fossils, biochemistry, homologous structures and phylogenies.
- Work through unfamiliar-data questions based on evidence sets and trees.
- Practice drawing conclusions before supporting them with the strongest evidence.
- Learn how to read relatedness carefully and justify it accurately.
- Learning strategies: flowchart mapping, scaffold fading, interleaving, error analysis.
07:55 PM
05 September 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 11
06:10 PM
09 September 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Complete Unit 4 AOS2 with speciation and human change over time.
- Use hominin and fossil questions that require discussion and evaluation.
- Practice weighing evidence rather than just describing features.
- Plan higher-mark answers briefly before writing.
- Learning strategies: close reading, worked-example comparison, dual coding, timed short-answer practice.
07:55 PM
12 September 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 12
06:10 PM
16 September 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Run a science-skills workshop on variables, controls, validity, reliability and error.
- Use Biology experiments to practise method-analysis and data questions.
- Write specific improvements linked directly to the weakness identified.
- Strengthen experimental-design language commonly needed in Section B.
- Learning strategies: question deconstruction, model answer comparison, error analysis, metacognitive reflection.
07:55 PM
19 September 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 13
06:10 PM
23 September 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Revisit weak areas through short reteaching, worked examples and immediate practice so students can turn feedback into improved performance.
- Strengthen confidence by showing students how to correct mistakes systematically rather than repeating them.
- Complete a strict-timing multiple-choice section using full Section A sets.
- Practice identifying topic, eliminating distractors, flagging and returning efficiently.
- Review errors by category: content, language or exam technique.
- Use results to target final revision instead of revising everything broadly.
- Learning strategies: deliberate practice, mistake correction cycles, retrieval practice, worked-example comparison.
07:55 PM
26 September 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 14
06:10 PM
07 October 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Run a substantial timed simulated exam section to build exam stamina, timing awareness and response discipline under pressure.
- Mark and review student responses in detail, focusing on common themes such as misreading the question, insufficient explanation, weak terminology or careless calculation errors.
- Use feedback to identify each student's final priority areas for improvement before the exam.
- Run a Section B workshop using recent short- and extended-answer questions.
- Turn mark allocations into answer structure before writing.
- Practice when to define, explain, compare or use evidence from data.
- Improve depth, relevance and completeness in higher-mark responses.
- Learning strategies: timed practice, exam wrappers, error logs, deliberate practice.
07:55 PM
10 October 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 15
06:10 PM
14 October 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Complete a trial paper under exam conditions.
- Rehearse pacing, section order, stamina and checking routines.
- Review terminology precision, command terms and answer completeness.
- Finish with a targeted final-improvement plan based on actual errors.
- Run a high-yield final revision review of the most examinable Units 3 & 4 topics, while answering student questions and correcting remaining weak areas through targeted practice.
07:55 PM
17 October 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 16
06:10 PM
21 October 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Consolidate the entire 16-week program through a final mixed-topic revision session centered on exam execution, confidence and strategy.
- Use the correction log to target the student's highest-yield weak areas.
- Complete selected 2024 and 2025 questions across both sections.
- Rehearse reading-time choices, pacing, checking and diagram habits.
- Finish with a clear exam-week checklist and paper-day strategy.
07:55 PM
24 October 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
VCE Examination
06:30 PM
28 October 2026
The 2026 VCE examination timetable will be published by VCAA in May.
Written examinations will be completed between Monday 26 October 2026 and Wednesday 18 November 2026
* Pay at once OR
* $840.00 is invoiced at enrolment and $840 is invoiced at week 9 of the program
* Pay at once OR
* $840.00 is invoiced at enrolment and $840 is invoiced at week 9 of the program
04:20 PM - 06:10 PM
$1,680.00
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Course Timetable: VCE Biology 3/4
The 2026 VCE Exam Preparation Program
Week 1
06:10 PM
02 July 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Introduce the structure of the VCE Biology exam, including how marks are often gained and lost.
- Establish how EPP will be run. E.g. content revision, timed application and personalised feedback each week.
- Revise the core skills that underpin success across the whole course.
- Map the VCAA Biology exam structure, timing and mark distribution.
- Complete a short diagnostic using recent Section A and Section B questions.
- Practise reading-time decisions: scan command terms and high-value questions.
- Set response rules: answer directly, use precise biology terms, match marks.
07:55 PM
05 July 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 2
06:10 PM
09 July 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Review core skills from previous lesson.
- Revise nucleic acids, proteins, genes and gene expression from Unit 3 AOS1.
- Practice transcription, translation, mutation and DNA-RNA-protein links.
- Work through short-answer and labelled-diagram questions in VCAA style.
- Train definition and explanation skills using precise, non-vague wording.
- Learning strategies: active recall, comparison tables, timed short-answer practice, error analysis.
07:55 PM
12 July 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 3
06:10 PM
16 July 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Revise gene regulation and DNA manipulation: PCR, enzymes, plasmids and CRISPR.
- Use biotechnology case-study questions drawn from recent VCAA papers.
- Practice, compare, explain, justify and evaluate responses for higher-mark items.
- Learn to pull evidence from the stem and link each step to biology knowledge.
- Learning strategies: worked-example comparison, dual coding, mistake tracking, retrieval practice.
07:55 PM
19 July 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 4
06:10 PM
23 July 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Revise photosynthesis: chloroplast structure, pigments, light stage and Calvin cycle.
- Apply knowledge to graphs, experiments and rate-of-photosynthesis questions.
- Compare C3, C4 and CAM adaptations in exam-style responses.
- Focus on cause-and-effect explanations instead of listing isolated facts.
- Learning strategies: active recall, stepwise modelling, error analysis, response scaffolding.
07:55 PM
26 July 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 5
06:10 PM
30 July 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Revise cellular respiration: glycolysis, Krebs cycle, ETC and anaerobic pathways.
- Connect substrates, products, locations and ATP yield in exam questions.
- Practice sequencing steps clearly in short-and extended-response answers.
- Match explanation depth to the mark allocation and wording of the question.
- Learning strategies: interleaving, timed practice, worked examples, close question analysis.
07:55 PM
02 August 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 6
06:10 PM
06 August 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Complete a mixed Unit 3 question bank on molecular genetics and biochemical pathways.
- Use timed sets so students switch topics the way the final exam requires.
- Refine multiple-choice elimination and 4- to 6-mark response structure.
- Start a correction log for content gaps, wording issues and careless errors.
- Learning strategies: graph interpretation drills, active recall, exam language drilling, error analysis.
07:55 PM
09 August 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 7
06:10 PM
13 August 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Begin Unit 4 AOS1: pathogens, antigens and innate immune system defences.
- Practice compare-and-contrast and sequence questions on lines of defence.
- Clarify similar terms so students avoid definition-based mark loss.
- Build process answers that explain what happens first, next and why.
- Learning strategies: concept mapping, retrieval practice, worked-example comparison, response scaffolding.
07:55 PM
16 August 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 8
06:10 PM
20 August 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Consolidate the first half of the program through a mixed-topic revision session using historical VCE-style questions.
- Continue Unit 4 AOS1 with adaptive immunity, antibodies, vaccination and medicines.
- Use recent immunity and disease-control questions with graphs and scenarios.
- Practice justify and evaluate responses using evidence from the stem.
- Train students to stay specific instead of drifting into generic notes.
- Learning strategies: interleaving, timed retrieval, error logs, metacognitive reflection.
07:55 PM
23 August 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 9
06:10 PM
27 August 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Revise evolution basics: gene pools, allele frequencies, mutation and selection pressures.
- Practice explaining change at population level, not individual level.
- Apply gene flow and genetic drift to short-answer and data questions.
- Use correct evolutionary language about frequency, adaptation and generations.
- Learning strategies: active recall, pattern recognition, worked examples, spaced repetition.
07:55 PM
30 August 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 10
06:10 PM
03 September 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Revise evidence for evolution: fossils, biochemistry, homologous structures and phylogenies.
- Work through unfamiliar-data questions based on evidence sets and trees.
- Practice drawing conclusions before supporting them with the strongest evidence.
- Learn how to read relatedness carefully and justify it accurately.
- Learning strategies: flowchart mapping, scaffold fading, interleaving, error analysis.
07:55 PM
06 September 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 11
06:10 PM
10 September 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Complete Unit 4 AOS2 with speciation and human change over time.
- Use hominin and fossil questions that require discussion and evaluation.
- Practice weighing evidence rather than just describing features.
- Plan higher-mark answers briefly before writing.
- Learning strategies: close reading, worked-example comparison, dual coding, timed short-answer practice.
07:55 PM
13 September 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 12
06:10 PM
17 September 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Run a science-skills workshop on variables, controls, validity, reliability and error.
- Use Biology experiments to practise method-analysis and data questions.
- Write specific improvements linked directly to the weakness identified.
- Strengthen experimental-design language commonly needed in Section B.
- Learning strategies: question deconstruction, model answer comparison, error analysis, metacognitive reflection.
07:55 PM
20 September 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 13
06:10 PM
24 September 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Revisit weak areas through short reteaching, worked examples and immediate practice so students can turn feedback into improved performance.
- Strengthen confidence by showing students how to correct mistakes systematically rather than repeating them.
- Complete a strict-timing multiple-choice section using full Section A sets.
- Practice identifying topic, eliminating distractors, flagging and returning efficiently.
- Review errors by category: content, language or exam technique.
- Use results to target final revision instead of revising everything broadly.
- Learning strategies: deliberate practice, mistake correction cycles, retrieval practice, worked-example comparison.
07:55 PM
27 September 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 14
06:10 PM
08 October 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Run a substantial timed simulated exam section to build exam stamina, timing awareness and response discipline under pressure.
- Mark and review student responses in detail, focusing on common themes such as misreading the question, insufficient explanation, weak terminology or careless calculation errors.
- Use feedback to identify each student's final priority areas for improvement before the exam.
- Run a Section B workshop using recent short- and extended-answer questions.
- Turn mark allocations into answer structure before writing.
- Practice when to define, explain, compare or use evidence from data.
- Improve depth, relevance and completeness in higher-mark responses.
- Learning strategies: timed practice, exam wrappers, error logs, deliberate practice.
07:55 PM
11 October 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 15
06:10 PM
15 October 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Complete a trial paper under exam conditions.
- Rehearse pacing, section order, stamina and checking routines.
- Review terminology precision, command terms and answer completeness.
- Finish with a targeted final-improvement plan based on actual errors.
- Run a high-yield final revision review of the most examinable Units 3 & 4 topics, while answering student questions and correcting remaining weak areas through targeted practice.
07:55 PM
18 October 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 16
06:10 PM
22 October 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Consolidate the entire 16-week program through a final mixed-topic revision session centered on exam execution, confidence and strategy.
- Use the correction log to target the student's highest-yield weak areas.
- Complete selected 2024 and 2025 questions across both sections.
- Rehearse reading-time choices, pacing, checking and diagram habits.
- Finish with a clear exam-week checklist and paper-day strategy.
07:55 PM
25 October 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
VCE Examination
06:30 PM
29 October 2026
The 2026 VCE examination timetable will be published by VCAA in May.
Written examinations will be completed between Monday 26 October 2026 and Wednesday 18 November 2026
* Pay at once OR
* $840.00 is invoiced at enrolment and $840 is invoiced at week 9 of the program
* Pay at once OR
* $840.00 is invoiced at enrolment and $840 is invoiced at week 9 of the program
04:20 PM - 06:10 PM
$1,680.00
Download Timetable
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Course Timetable: VCE Biology 3/4
The 2026 VCE Exam Preparation Program
Week 1
06:10 PM
03 July 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Introduce the structure of the VCE Biology exam, including how marks are often gained and lost.
- Establish how EPP will be run. E.g. content revision, timed application and personalised feedback each week.
- Revise the core skills that underpin success across the whole course.
- Map the VCAA Biology exam structure, timing and mark distribution.
- Complete a short diagnostic using recent Section A and Section B questions.
- Practise reading-time decisions: scan command terms and high-value questions.
- Set response rules: answer directly, use precise biology terms, match marks.
07:55 PM
06 July 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 2
06:10 PM
10 July 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Review core skills from previous lesson.
- Revise nucleic acids, proteins, genes and gene expression from Unit 3 AOS1.
- Practice transcription, translation, mutation and DNA-RNA-protein links.
- Work through short-answer and labelled-diagram questions in VCAA style.
- Train definition and explanation skills using precise, non-vague wording.
- Learning strategies: active recall, comparison tables, timed short-answer practice, error analysis.
07:55 PM
13 July 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 3
06:10 PM
17 July 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Revise gene regulation and DNA manipulation: PCR, enzymes, plasmids and CRISPR.
- Use biotechnology case-study questions drawn from recent VCAA papers.
- Practice, compare, explain, justify and evaluate responses for higher-mark items.
- Learn to pull evidence from the stem and link each step to biology knowledge.
- Learning strategies: worked-example comparison, dual coding, mistake tracking, retrieval practice.
07:55 PM
20 July 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 4
06:10 PM
24 July 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Revise photosynthesis: chloroplast structure, pigments, light stage and Calvin cycle.
- Apply knowledge to graphs, experiments and rate-of-photosynthesis questions.
- Compare C3, C4 and CAM adaptations in exam-style responses.
- Focus on cause-and-effect explanations instead of listing isolated facts.
- Learning strategies: active recall, stepwise modelling, error analysis, response scaffolding.
07:55 PM
27 July 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 5
06:10 PM
31 July 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Revise cellular respiration: glycolysis, Krebs cycle, ETC and anaerobic pathways.
- Connect substrates, products, locations and ATP yield in exam questions.
- Practice sequencing steps clearly in short-and extended-response answers.
- Match explanation depth to the mark allocation and wording of the question.
- Learning strategies: interleaving, timed practice, worked examples, close question analysis.
07:55 PM
03 August 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 6
06:10 PM
07 August 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Complete a mixed Unit 3 question bank on molecular genetics and biochemical pathways.
- Use timed sets so students switch topics the way the final exam requires.
- Refine multiple-choice elimination and 4- to 6-mark response structure.
- Start a correction log for content gaps, wording issues and careless errors.
- Learning strategies: graph interpretation drills, active recall, exam language drilling, error analysis.
07:55 PM
10 August 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 7
06:10 PM
14 August 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Begin Unit 4 AOS1: pathogens, antigens and innate immune system defences.
- Practice compare-and-contrast and sequence questions on lines of defence.
- Clarify similar terms so students avoid definition-based mark loss.
- Build process answers that explain what happens first, next and why.
- Learning strategies: concept mapping, retrieval practice, worked-example comparison, response scaffolding.
07:55 PM
17 August 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 8
06:10 PM
21 August 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Consolidate the first half of the program through a mixed-topic revision session using historical VCE-style questions.
- Continue Unit 4 AOS1 with adaptive immunity, antibodies, vaccination and medicines.
- Use recent immunity and disease-control questions with graphs and scenarios.
- Practice justify and evaluate responses using evidence from the stem.
- Train students to stay specific instead of drifting into generic notes.
- Learning strategies: interleaving, timed retrieval, error logs, metacognitive reflection.
07:55 PM
24 August 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 9
06:10 PM
28 August 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Revise evolution basics: gene pools, allele frequencies, mutation and selection pressures.
- Practice explaining change at population level, not individual level.
- Apply gene flow and genetic drift to short-answer and data questions.
- Use correct evolutionary language about frequency, adaptation and generations.
- Learning strategies: active recall, pattern recognition, worked examples, spaced repetition.
07:55 PM
31 August 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 10
06:10 PM
04 September 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Revise evidence for evolution: fossils, biochemistry, homologous structures and phylogenies.
- Work through unfamiliar-data questions based on evidence sets and trees.
- Practice drawing conclusions before supporting them with the strongest evidence.
- Learn how to read relatedness carefully and justify it accurately.
- Learning strategies: flowchart mapping, scaffold fading, interleaving, error analysis.
07:55 PM
07 September 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 11
06:10 PM
11 September 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Complete Unit 4 AOS2 with speciation and human change over time.
- Use hominin and fossil questions that require discussion and evaluation.
- Practice weighing evidence rather than just describing features.
- Plan higher-mark answers briefly before writing.
- Learning strategies: close reading, worked-example comparison, dual coding, timed short-answer practice.
07:55 PM
14 September 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 12
06:10 PM
18 September 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Run a science-skills workshop on variables, controls, validity, reliability and error.
- Use Biology experiments to practise method-analysis and data questions.
- Write specific improvements linked directly to the weakness identified.
- Strengthen experimental-design language commonly needed in Section B.
- Learning strategies: question deconstruction, model answer comparison, error analysis, metacognitive reflection.
07:55 PM
21 September 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 13
06:10 PM
25 September 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Revisit weak areas through short reteaching, worked examples and immediate practice so students can turn feedback into improved performance.
- Strengthen confidence by showing students how to correct mistakes systematically rather than repeating them.
- Complete a strict-timing multiple-choice section using full Section A sets.
- Practice identifying topic, eliminating distractors, flagging and returning efficiently.
- Review errors by category: content, language or exam technique.
- Use results to target final revision instead of revising everything broadly.
- Learning strategies: deliberate practice, mistake correction cycles, retrieval practice, worked-example comparison.
07:55 PM
28 September 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 14
06:10 PM
09 October 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Run a substantial timed simulated exam section to build exam stamina, timing awareness and response discipline under pressure.
- Mark and review student responses in detail, focusing on common themes such as misreading the question, insufficient explanation, weak terminology or careless calculation errors.
- Use feedback to identify each student's final priority areas for improvement before the exam.
- Run a Section B workshop using recent short- and extended-answer questions.
- Turn mark allocations into answer structure before writing.
- Practice when to define, explain, compare or use evidence from data.
- Improve depth, relevance and completeness in higher-mark responses.
- Learning strategies: timed practice, exam wrappers, error logs, deliberate practice.
07:55 PM
12 October 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 15
06:10 PM
16 October 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Complete a trial paper under exam conditions.
- Rehearse pacing, section order, stamina and checking routines.
- Review terminology precision, command terms and answer completeness.
- Finish with a targeted final-improvement plan based on actual errors.
- Run a high-yield final revision review of the most examinable Units 3 & 4 topics, while answering student questions and correcting remaining weak areas through targeted practice.
07:55 PM
19 October 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 16
06:10 PM
23 October 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Consolidate the entire 16-week program through a final mixed-topic revision session centered on exam execution, confidence and strategy.
- Use the correction log to target the student's highest-yield weak areas.
- Complete selected 2024 and 2025 questions across both sections.
- Rehearse reading-time choices, pacing, checking and diagram habits.
- Finish with a clear exam-week checklist and paper-day strategy.
07:55 PM
26 October 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
VCE Examination
06:30 PM
30 October 2026
The 2026 VCE examination timetable will be published by VCAA in May.
Written examinations will be completed between Monday 26 October 2026 and Wednesday 18 November 2026
* Pay at once OR
* $840.00 is invoiced at enrolment and $840 is invoiced at week 9 of the program
* Pay at once OR
* $840.00 is invoiced at enrolment and $840 is invoiced at week 9 of the program
09:30 AM - 11:20 AM
$1,680.00
Download Timetable
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Course Timetable: VCE Biology 3/4
The 2026 VCE Exam Preparation Program
Week 1
11:20 AM
05 July 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Introduce the structure of the VCE Biology exam, including how marks are often gained and lost.
- Establish how EPP will be run. E.g. content revision, timed application and personalised feedback each week.
- Revise the core skills that underpin success across the whole course.
- Map the VCAA Biology exam structure, timing and mark distribution.
- Complete a short diagnostic using recent Section A and Section B questions.
- Practise reading-time decisions: scan command terms and high-value questions.
- Set response rules: answer directly, use precise biology terms, match marks.
07:55 PM
08 July 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 2
11:20 AM
12 July 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Review core skills from previous lesson.
- Revise nucleic acids, proteins, genes and gene expression from Unit 3 AOS1.
- Practice transcription, translation, mutation and DNA-RNA-protein links.
- Work through short-answer and labelled-diagram questions in VCAA style.
- Train definition and explanation skills using precise, non-vague wording.
- Learning strategies: active recall, comparison tables, timed short-answer practice, error analysis.
07:55 PM
15 July 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 3
11:20 AM
19 July 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Revise gene regulation and DNA manipulation: PCR, enzymes, plasmids and CRISPR.
- Use biotechnology case-study questions drawn from recent VCAA papers.
- Practice, compare, explain, justify and evaluate responses for higher-mark items.
- Learn to pull evidence from the stem and link each step to biology knowledge.
- Learning strategies: worked-example comparison, dual coding, mistake tracking, retrieval practice.
07:55 PM
22 July 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 4
11:20 AM
26 July 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Revise photosynthesis: chloroplast structure, pigments, light stage and Calvin cycle.
- Apply knowledge to graphs, experiments and rate-of-photosynthesis questions.
- Compare C3, C4 and CAM adaptations in exam-style responses.
- Focus on cause-and-effect explanations instead of listing isolated facts.
- Learning strategies: active recall, stepwise modelling, error analysis, response scaffolding.
07:55 PM
29 July 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 5
11:20 AM
02 August 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Revise cellular respiration: glycolysis, Krebs cycle, ETC and anaerobic pathways.
- Connect substrates, products, locations and ATP yield in exam questions.
- Practice sequencing steps clearly in short-and extended-response answers.
- Match explanation depth to the mark allocation and wording of the question.
- Learning strategies: interleaving, timed practice, worked examples, close question analysis.
07:55 PM
05 August 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 6
11:20 AM
09 August 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Complete a mixed Unit 3 question bank on molecular genetics and biochemical pathways.
- Use timed sets so students switch topics the way the final exam requires.
- Refine multiple-choice elimination and 4- to 6-mark response structure.
- Start a correction log for content gaps, wording issues and careless errors.
- Learning strategies: graph interpretation drills, active recall, exam language drilling, error analysis.
07:55 PM
12 August 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 7
11:20 AM
16 August 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Begin Unit 4 AOS1: pathogens, antigens and innate immune system defences.
- Practice compare-and-contrast and sequence questions on lines of defence.
- Clarify similar terms so students avoid definition-based mark loss.
- Build process answers that explain what happens first, next and why.
- Learning strategies: concept mapping, retrieval practice, worked-example comparison, response scaffolding.
07:55 PM
19 August 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 8
11:20 AM
23 August 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Consolidate the first half of the program through a mixed-topic revision session using historical VCE-style questions.
- Continue Unit 4 AOS1 with adaptive immunity, antibodies, vaccination and medicines.
- Use recent immunity and disease-control questions with graphs and scenarios.
- Practice justify and evaluate responses using evidence from the stem.
- Train students to stay specific instead of drifting into generic notes.
- Learning strategies: interleaving, timed retrieval, error logs, metacognitive reflection.
07:55 PM
26 August 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 9
11:20 AM
30 August 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Revise evolution basics: gene pools, allele frequencies, mutation and selection pressures.
- Practice explaining change at population level, not individual level.
- Apply gene flow and genetic drift to short-answer and data questions.
- Use correct evolutionary language about frequency, adaptation and generations.
- Learning strategies: active recall, pattern recognition, worked examples, spaced repetition.
07:55 PM
02 September 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 10
11:20 AM
06 September 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Revise evidence for evolution: fossils, biochemistry, homologous structures and phylogenies.
- Work through unfamiliar-data questions based on evidence sets and trees.
- Practice drawing conclusions before supporting them with the strongest evidence.
- Learn how to read relatedness carefully and justify it accurately.
- Learning strategies: flowchart mapping, scaffold fading, interleaving, error analysis.
07:55 PM
09 September 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 11
11:20 AM
13 September 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Complete Unit 4 AOS2 with speciation and human change over time.
- Use hominin and fossil questions that require discussion and evaluation.
- Practice weighing evidence rather than just describing features.
- Plan higher-mark answers briefly before writing.
- Learning strategies: close reading, worked-example comparison, dual coding, timed short-answer practice.
07:55 PM
16 September 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 12
11:20 AM
20 September 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Run a science-skills workshop on variables, controls, validity, reliability and error.
- Use Biology experiments to practise method-analysis and data questions.
- Write specific improvements linked directly to the weakness identified.
- Strengthen experimental-design language commonly needed in Section B.
- Learning strategies: question deconstruction, model answer comparison, error analysis, metacognitive reflection.
07:55 PM
23 September 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 13
11:20 AM
27 September 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Revisit weak areas through short reteaching, worked examples and immediate practice so students can turn feedback into improved performance.
- Strengthen confidence by showing students how to correct mistakes systematically rather than repeating them.
- Complete a strict-timing multiple-choice section using full Section A sets.
- Practice identifying topic, eliminating distractors, flagging and returning efficiently.
- Review errors by category: content, language or exam technique.
- Use results to target final revision instead of revising everything broadly.
- Learning strategies: deliberate practice, mistake correction cycles, retrieval practice, worked-example comparison.
07:55 PM
30 September 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 14
11:20 AM
11 October 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Run a substantial timed simulated exam section to build exam stamina, timing awareness and response discipline under pressure.
- Mark and review student responses in detail, focusing on common themes such as misreading the question, insufficient explanation, weak terminology or careless calculation errors.
- Use feedback to identify each student's final priority areas for improvement before the exam.
- Run a Section B workshop using recent short- and extended-answer questions.
- Turn mark allocations into answer structure before writing.
- Practice when to define, explain, compare or use evidence from data.
- Improve depth, relevance and completeness in higher-mark responses.
- Learning strategies: timed practice, exam wrappers, error logs, deliberate practice.
07:55 PM
14 October 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 15
11:20 AM
18 October 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Complete a trial paper under exam conditions.
- Rehearse pacing, section order, stamina and checking routines.
- Review terminology precision, command terms and answer completeness.
- Finish with a targeted final-improvement plan based on actual errors.
- Run a high-yield final revision review of the most examinable Units 3 & 4 topics, while answering student questions and correcting remaining weak areas through targeted practice.
07:55 PM
21 October 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
Week 16
11:20 AM
25 October 2026
(1 Tutor:10 Student Ratio)
- Consolidate the entire 16-week program through a final mixed-topic revision session centered on exam execution, confidence and strategy.
- Use the correction log to target the student's highest-yield weak areas.
- Complete selected 2024 and 2025 questions across both sections.
- Rehearse reading-time choices, pacing, checking and diagram habits.
- Finish with a clear exam-week checklist and paper-day strategy.
07:55 PM
28 October 2026
(1 Tutor:5 Student Ratio)
- Review responses, ask questions and practice exam techniques
VCE Examination
06:30 PM
01 November 2026
The 2026 VCE examination timetable will be published by VCAA in May.
Written examinations will be completed between Monday 26 October 2026 and Wednesday 18 November 2026
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* $840.00 is invoiced at enrolment and $840 is invoiced at week 9 of the program