QCE Handbook - Queensland Studies Authority

4.8 Relaxation of completed Core requirement
To be awarded a QCE, a minimum of 12 credits must come from completed Core courses
of study. At least 1 credit must come from Core studies while enrolled at a school.
Students undertaking a senior course of study entirely in Queensland may meet the
completed Core requirement in various ways. For example, by successfully completing:
• three Authority or Authority-registered subjects over four semesters
• a VET Certificate II course and two Authority or Authority-registered subjects
• a VET Certificate III course (that contributes 8 credits) and one Authority or
Authority-registered subject.
Students transferring from interstate or overseas will, in many cases, be unable to meet the
completed Core requirement. Also, in exceptional circumstances, students who transfer
from one Queensland learning provider to another may not be able to meet the completed
Core requirement. These students may apply for a relaxation of this requirement.
When similar studies are undertaken interstate/overseas and then in Queensland,
relaxation may be granted, provided that final achievements demonstrate the depth and
continuity intended by the completed Core requirement for a QCE.
The similar studies considered for the relaxation of the completed Core requirement and
the award of a QCE must include at least 1 credit from a course undertaken in Queensland.
As a guiding principal, to be awarded a QCE a student transferring from interstate or
overseas needs to have completed at least their final semester of senior schooling in
Queensland.
The QSA will keep a register of students granted relaxation from the completed Core
requirement and manually intervene, when results are finalised, to allow a student to be
awarded a QCE where the relaxation has been granted is the only requirement that
prevents the award of a QCE.
Students wishing to apply for relaxation of the completed Core requirement and credit
transfer must use the form Application for credit transfer and/or relaxation of the completed
Core requirement .
4.9 Procedures for a review of decision
As part of the credit transfer process, an appeal process exists for students who are
dissatisfied with the decision concerning aspects of their credit transfer to be reviewed.
Students wishing to have their decision reviewed must use the form Application for review
of decision — QCE credit transfer, available on the QCE website
. The student should include any documentary evidence
to support the reasons provided in the application for review.
Should relaxation of the completed Core requirement not be granted, and after the end of
Year 12 the student has not been eligible for a QCE and believes there are sufficient
grounds, the student may request further review of the decision using the Application for
verification or review of information form issued with the Student Education Profile.
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