VCE Romanian case studies
VCE Romanian · Put your knowledge to work in context.
VCE Romanian is a Victorian Certificate of Education language study assessed by the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA). It suits students who already have background in Romanian and want formal recognition of their listening, speaking, reading and writing skills within the VCE. The VCE Romanian case studies are 5 cases and about 2,085 words.
1The Detailed Study That Outgrew Its Ten Minutes
Ileana has chosen her Detailed Study on the Romanian tradition of mărțișor . She has assembled 14 sources: two ethnographic articles, a museum leaflet, three interviews with her grandmother, a news feature, a song lyric, and seven social-media posts.
435 words, about 2 min2The Conversation Question She Did Not Expect
During Andrei's oral on Romanian emigration, his presentation on remittances and left-behind grandparents is fluent and well organised. Then the assessor asks: 'You said your uncle sends money home.
428 words, about 2 min3When the Research Is Strong but the Register Is Wrong
In the Written Examination, Maria writes a response to a task asking her to persuade readers of a school magazine to attend a Romanian cultural festival. Her draft is accurate and detailed, with statistics on attendance and a summary of the festival's history, but it reads like a report: passive constructions, no direct address to readers, no rhetorical questions, and a flat conclusion.
387 words, about 2 min4The Quotation That Fit Too Well
For a Written Examination response analysing a Romanian short story, Radu wants to use a critical comment he found online: a single sentence that perfectly captures the story's theme. He cannot remember the critic's name or where he read it.
431 words, about 2 min5The Detailed Study Topic That Is Too Close to Home
Sofia wants to base her Detailed Study on her own experience of leaving Romania at 11 and her family's adaptation. She has strong personal material and emotional engagement, but her teacher is concerned: she has only one written source (a memoir), no statistics, and her planned presentation focuses almost entirely on her own story.
404 words, about 2 min