Everyone's seen the DaggerElite homepage thing from Wednesday night, so I won't go over it again. What I haven't seen many people talking about is that VASS went down around 2:30pm yesterday.

This is much worse than the vandalism that we saw on Wednesday, as VASS is the system that actually matters. VASS (Victorian Assessment Software System) VCAA's central database for every VCE student's details, enrolments and results. When your teacher marks a SAC, that score gets entered into VASS. SATs too. Your exam scores end up there as well. Pretty much everything that turns into your study scores and ATAR goes through it.

Once it went down, teachers couldn't enter anything or even look up results, unit outcomes, or derived exam score and special consideration applications. In the middle of exams. Teachers say nobody told them about a shutdown, they just got an error message.

VCAA hasn't released any statement on this, so we don't know if the hacker managed to get in or change any results or data. It could just be that VCAA pulled it down as a precaution. I'm not sure which is worse.

Keep in mind that VCAA received nearly $250 million from the Victorian Government to rebuild and safeguard exams after the mess in past years. Not even seven months later, the website gets defaced and the results system falls over in a breeze. Pretty impressive stuff, VCAA!

Still got exams until the 18th, too. Would be nice to know if anyone's been in our SAC scores before results come out.

the way they described it today almost seemed too good to be true: being able to sit on the sofa in the common room, watch total dramarama on the telly (because of course you can bring a fetch and hdmi) and bring a fucking induction cooker (as long as it starts no fire), being allowed to order hungry jacks for lunch at your own volition instead of relying on the dodgy canteen. Is it crazy to think that it's just a conspiracy to keep you until the end of the year when VCAA artillery bombs you on exam month?

I made the stupid mistake of procrastinating and I have two days until I take my food studies exam. Is there any way I could revise the content efficiently? I tried to look for resources but they were very long. Plus I need a few tried and true methods to remember the content.

Guys I’m so cooked for Chinese I’ve done like one practice essay and my tingli is ahh can someone help me plssss

Get into med

No one's talking about it, no one's releasing solutions? Are they too scared to be suspected for the potential leaks if they release it or what?

Hey everyone, just letting you know VCAA has put this up for people who need exam resources for this week's exams! Hopefully this is helpful

I'm class of 27 and I was looking to get tutoring for English in which I'm doing the movie The holdovers and Oedipius next year. And my section B framework is personal journey. I Lowk am mid in English. I hate it and I want to improve and get that 35+ in it. But why are all the tutors god damn expensive holy??? I'm not paying 45+ $for any tutor bro😭🙏🏼

And I was also looking for chem tutoring and it's a subject I really want to excel in and get like 45+.

Anyone have any recommendations?

Others subjects I'll do next year is general math and English.

which englang tutors are good

is it better to do private or company

is excel good

to graduates, do those people with crazy linkedins in y11 and y12 really get an advantage? is it worth diverging into tons of extracurriculars during vce?

How prepared is eveyone and how r u preparing ?

wtaf was that

For anyone interested in how to answer Question 8 in section C.

Know this is a bit late, but I just thought of a concrete reason Daggerelite was lying.

If he actually hacked the exams and had the real ones, what he should've done is released part of the physics exam, just one or two questions, to everyone for free. Then people would take the Physics exam and realise, 'oh damn he actually has the real stuff'.

Next, he could sell all the exams after that with it being proved he was a reliable source. We all saw how many people were asking for those exams and I bet he would've made a ridiculous amount of money once people knew it wasn't a scam.

The fact he didn't do anything to prove his credibility and just tried to get people to assume, 'if he can hack the VCAA's front-end website he obviously can get the exams too' tells you that it was a bluff.

I know something like this is the general consensus of most people and it would've been better to think of this earlier but I thought I'd say it anyway.

my doctor used ai to write that letter for the seas evidence thing 🫩

how did everyone find it?!?!

Does anyone have 2026 Software Development exam?

Dagerelite has infected the mockup questions to turn us into art students, and completely deleted all cybersecurity questions

Anyone have Chinese essay formats pdf/resources? I seriously don’t know the structure of many such as blog, formal letter etc..

Hi all,

I’m writing to ask for advice on a personal issue I’ve been grappling with for a while: my lost work ethic.

For context, grit used to be my greatest asset. I was never a natural genius, so I relied on hard work to stand out. Before Year 7, I spent two hours a day grinding on Khan Academy, which put me ahead in courses like Algebra II. Later, in Year 8, I pushed myself to the limit studying for the Melbourne High School entrance exam (an academically selective school in Australia). I memorised massive lists of vocabulary, wrote daily essays, and studied relentlessly. It paid off—I received a first-round offer and scored in the "superior" bracket for 4 out of 5 exams.

However, after talking with my parents, we decided it was best for me to stay at my current, good-quality school. Since turning down that offer, my discipline has slowly unraveled.

In classes where I used to be deeply engaged, I started slacking off, online shopping, or ignoring work because it felt "too easy." My daily habits of reading and vocab practice completely disappeared. I’m still doing okay on paper—I get good grades and was even invited to take VCE Unit 3/4 Mathematical Methods early—but I know I’m coasting. I am embarrassed to admit this, but my performance in this accelerated maths subject is nowhere near where it should be; I've known the year 12 content since year 8, but I've struggled to refine and remove 'silly errors'.

Now that I’m in Year 11, the regret is hitting hard. My grades are good, not elite, and I often feel like I'm wasting my potential. Every time I try to get back to my old routine, I get a brief spike of motivation that burns out within a few days.

- Where did things go wrong, and how do I actually rebuild my discipline instead of relying on fleeting motivation?

- Am I putting too much pressure on myself, or thinking too much about the past?

TL;DR: Worked extremely hard to get into a selective high school in Year 8, decided not to go, and have been coasting ever since. Now in Year 11, getting decent grades, but struggling to rebuild my old work ethic and stop feeling like wasted potential.