September Holiday Program

 

At TSSM students will be able to attend our classes at TSSM's VCE Centre in Melbourne or attend the classes on TSSM's Live and Online Platform, ensuring that those who are unable or unwilling to travel into the city will still have access to our exceptional VCE programs and excellent teachers.

TSSM will always adhere to government guidelines when running our in person classes ensuring that every student and teacher are safe and well in our exceptional learning environments.

TSSM’s September Holiday Exam Preparation Program is designed to help you thoroughly review all key areas of study as outlined in the VCAA Study Design for each subject prior to the exam rush.

Core benefits include:

• Detailed content revision
• Essential exam practice
• Superior exam techniques
• Effective problem solving strategies
• Powerful study habits
• Time management skills

TSSM’s September Holiday Exam Preparation Program will improve your VCE performance with:

• Advanced exam techniques
• Assistance on examination tricks, common student pitfalls and errors
• Individual motivation and support
• Interactive teaching that reinforces concepts taught at schools
• Open, ‘ask questions’ teaching environments
• Powerful study habit tips
• Practice on an extensive range of likely examination questions
• Problem solving strategies
• Professional concept revision that reduces pre-examination pressures
• Thorough tuition on core VCE concepts
• Emphasis on learning and reviewing examinable content
• A set of comprehensive revision notes, written to an A+ level

To enrol offline, please click here to download the brochure!

To download the enrolment form for the September Holiday Program, please click here!

TSSM also offers programs for Units 3 & 4 English including all Texts for Text List 1 and 2!  Please click the link below for information:

• September Holiday: English - Units 3 and 4

All other subjects including Unit 2 English and Units 3 & 4 English Language are described below.

TSSM also offers Units 3 and 4 Additional Maths and Science Application & Extension Question Classes in addition to the September Holiday Program for:

• Biology
• Chemistry
• Mathematical Methods
• Physics
• Specialist Mathematics

 

 

Accounting - September Holiday Program - Units 3 and 4

Students will be instructed on all Units 3 and 4 Areas of Study including; Recording and analysing financial data; Preparing and interpreting accounting reports; Extension of recording and reporting; and Budgeting and decision-making.

Biology - September Holiday Program - Unit 2

Students will receive a thorough revision of all Unit 2 Areas of Study including; How is inheritance explained?; How do inherited adaptations impact on diversity? and How do humans use science to explore and communicate contemporary bioethical issues?

Biology - September Holiday Program - Units 3 and 4

Students will receive a thorough revision of all Units 3 and 4 Areas of Study including; What is the role of nucleic acids and proteins in maintaining life?; How are biochemical pathways regulated? How do organisms respond to pathogens?; How are species related over time? and How is scientific inquiry used to investigate cellular processes and/or biological change?

Biology Additional Applications & Extension Questions Classes - Units 3 and 4

In addition to the Biology September Holiday Program these classes offer students the benefit of specific instruction on the most critical, difficult and highly probable applications and extension questions that are essential for achieving the elite scores for each subject.

Business Management - September Holiday Program - Units 3 and 4

Students will be given a thorough exam revision of all Units 3 and 4 Areas of Study including; Business foundations; Human resource management and; Operations management; Reviewing performance – the need for change; and Implementing change.

Chemistry - September Holiday Program - Unit 2

Students will develop a thorough understanding of all Unit 2 Areas of Study including; How do chemicals interact with water?; How are chemicals measured and analysed?; and How do quantitative scientific investigations develop our understanding of chemical reactions?

Chemistry - September Holiday Program - Units 3 and 4

Students will receive intense instruction on all Units 3 and 4 Areas of Study including; What are the options for energy production?; How can the yield of a chemical product be optimised?; How can the diversity of carbon compounds be explained and categorised?; What is the chemistry of food?; and Practical investigation.

Chemistry Additional Applications & Extension Questions Classes - Units 3 and 4

In addition to the Chemistry September Holiday Program these classes offer students the benefit of specific instruction on the most critical, difficult and highly probable applications and extension questions that are essential for achieving the elite scores for each subject.

Data Analytics - September Holiday Program - Units 3 and 4

Students will develop a thorough revision of all Units 3 and 4 Areas of Study including; Data Analytics; Analysis and design; Development and evaluation; and Cybersecurity: Data and information security.

Economics - September Holiday Program - Units 3 and 4

Students will develop a thorough revision of all Units 3 and 4 Areas of Study including; An introduction to microeconomics: the market system, resource allocation and government intervention; Domestic macroeconomic goals; Australia and the international economy; Aggregate demand policies and domestic economic stability; and Aggregate supply policies.

English Language - September Holiday Program - Units 3 and 4

Develop a practical Revision of all Units 3 and 4 Areas of Study including; Informal Language; Formal Language; Language variation in Australian society; and Individual and group identities.

Food Studies - September Holiday Program - Units 3 and 4

Students will develop a thorough revision of all Units 3 and 4 Areas of Study including; The science of food; Food choice, health and wellbeing; Environment and ethics; and Navigating food information.

General Mathematics - September Holiday Program - Units 3 and 4

Students will be given a full revision of all Units 3 and 4 Areas of Study including; Data analysis, probability and statistics and Discrete mathematics (including Recursion and financial modelling); Discrete mathematics (including Matrices and Networks and decision mathematics).

Health and Human Development - September Holiday Program - Units 3 and 4

Students will develop a thorough revision of all Units 3 and 4 Areas of Study including; Understanding health and wellbeing; Promoting health and wellbeing; Health and wellbeing in a global context; Health and the Sustainable Development Goals.

History: Revolutions - September Holiday Program - Units 3 and 4

Students will thoroughly revise all Units 3 and 4 Areas of Study either; The American Revolution; The Chinese Revolution; The Russian Revolution; and The French Revolution.

Legal Studies - September Holiday Program - Units 3 and 4

Students will be instructed on all Units 3 and 4 Areas of Study including; The Victorian criminal justice system; The Victorian civil justice system; The people and the Australian Constitution; The people, the parliament and the courts.

Literature - September Holiday Program - Units 3 and 4

Students will be given a full revision of all Units 3 and 4 Areas of Study including; Adaptations and transformations; Developing interpretations; Creative responses to texts and Close analysis of texts .

Mathematical Methods - September Holiday Program - Unit 2

Students will be given a full revision on all Unit 2 Areas of Study including; Functions, relations and graphs; Algebra, number and structure; Calculus (including diff. and anti-diff.); and Data analysis, probability and statistics.

Mathematical Methods - September Holiday Program - Units 3 and 4

Students will be given a full revision of all Units 3 and 4 Areas of Study including; Functions, relations and graphs; Algebra, number and structure; and Calculus (differential); Calculus (anti-differential & integral); and Data analysis, probability and statistics.

Mathematical Methods Additional Applications & Extension Questions Classes - Units 3 and 4

In addition to the Mathematical Methods September Holiday Program these classes offer students the benefit of specific instruction on the most critical, difficult and highly probable applications and extension questions that are essential for achieving the elite scores for each subject.

Outdoor and Environmental Studies - September Holiday Program - Units 3 and 4

Students will be given specific instructions on all Units 3 and 4 Areas of Study including; Historical relationships with outdoor environments; and Relationships with Australian environments since 1990; Healthy outdoor environments; and Sustainable outdoor environments.

Physical Education - September Holiday Program - Units 3 and 4

Students will develop a thorough revision of all Units 3 and 4 Areas of Study including; How are movement skills improved?; How does the body produce energy?; What are the foundations of an effective training program?; How is training implemented effectively to improve fitness?

Physics - September Holiday Program - Unit 2

Students will thoroughly revise all Unit 2 Areas of Study including; How is motion understood? and How do physicists investigate questions? Please note: Options will not be covered during this program.

Physics - September Holiday Program - Units 3 and 4

Students will thoroughly revise all Units 3 and 4 Areas of Study including; How do things move without contact?; How are fields used to move electrical energy?; How fast can things go?; How can waves explain the behaviour of light?; and How are light and matter similar?; and Practical investigation.

Psychology - September Holiday Program - Units 3 and 4

Students will be given a thorough exam revision of all Units 3 and 4 Areas of Study including; How does the nervous system enable psychological functioning?; How do people learn and remember?; How does sleep affect mental processes and behaviour?; What influences mental wellbeing?; and How is scientific inquiry used to investigate mental processes and psychological functioning?

Software Development - September Holiday Program - Units 3 and 4

Students will develop a thorough understanding of all Units 3 and 4 Areas of Study including; Programming; and Software development; analysis and design; development and evaluation and Cybersecurity: Software security.

Specialist Mathematics - September Holiday Program - Units 3 and 4

Students will be given a full revision of all Units 3 and 4 Areas of Study including; Discrete mathematics (Logic and proof), Functions, relations and graphs (including circular functions); Algebra, number and structure (including complex numbers); Calculus (differential & integral); and Space and measurement (Vectors and Vector and Cartesian equations); Calculus (Differential equations and Kinematics: rectilinear motion: rectilinear motion); Vectors (including Vector calculus); Data analysis, probability and statistics.

TI N-Spire Calculator Mastery Session - Semester 2

Learn the essential calculator techniques that you will need for semester two Maths Methods, and Specialist Mathematics in our Calculator Mastery Sessions. Both sessions are open to year 11 and 12 students.