Assessment schedule – software engineering, Year 12
This sample assessment has been designed to support teachers by providing a range of tasks based on syllabus content and can be modified to suit individual school contexts and procedures as required.
The Year 12 formal school-based assessment program is to reflect the following requirements:
- a maximum of four assessment tasks
- the minimum weighting for a task is 10%
- the maximum weighting for a task is 40%
- one task must be an individual project with a weighting of 30%
- only one task may be a formal examination with a maximum weighting of 30%.
- the components and weightings for Year 12 are mandatory.
Syllabus
Outcomes and content descriptors from Software Engineering 11–12 Syllabus (2022) © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2024.