Assessment and Reassessment

The two outcomes

Result	What it means
Competent (C)	You have demonstrated all the skills and knowledge the unit requires. The unit is complete.
Not Yet Competent (NYC)	Something is still missing. You are told exactly what, and you get another attempt. “Not yet” is the operative word — it is a stage, not a verdict.

What your assessment is judged against

Assessors apply four principles of assessment — it must be fair, flexible, valid and reliable
— and the evidence you provide must satisfy four rules of evidence: it must be valid, sufficient,
authentic and current. In practice that means the assessment must be a reasonable test of the actual unit,
must be adaptable to your circumstances, must be applied consistently between students and assessors, and the
work must genuinely be yours and recent enough to count.

If you are assessed Not Yet Competent

1. You get feedback — your assessor explains what was missing and what you need to show.
2. Attempt two — you may resubmit or be reassessed on that task.
3. After a second NYC, we build you a support plan — this is not optional and it is not
   punishment. A documented plan sets out what support you receive, any adjusted timeline, and review dates.
   See Student support.
4. A third attempt triggers an academic review — the Academic Manager reviews your situation
   with you to work out the right path forward, which may include additional training, a different pathway,
   or honest advice that the course is not the right fit.

Reasonable adjustment

If a disability, health condition or other circumstance affects how you demonstrate your skills, tell us.
We can adjust how you are assessed — extra time, a different format, assistive technology, a
separate room — without changing what you must demonstrate. The competency standard itself never
changes, because your qualification has to mean the same thing as everyone else’s. See
Student support to request an adjustment.

Assessment integrity

Some assessments include supervised components, verbal questioning, staged drafts or workplace-based
evidence. These exist so your assessor can be confident the work is yours — which protects the value of
your qualification. See Academic integrity and AI.

Appealing an assessment decision

How we keep assessment fair across all students

ALIT validates its assessment tools and judgements on a documented five-year cycle, so every course is
reviewed at least once within each cycle, with higher-risk courses prioritised early. Validation panels
include someone independent of the delivery and assessment being reviewed. Where more than one assessor marks
the same task, we moderate their judgements before results are finalised. This is how we make sure the result
you receive would be the same regardless of which assessor you had.