For VCE English.
Edexia is the only AI grading tool built specifically for VCE English. Trained by VCAA assessors and calibrated to official rubrics, it supports every text on the VCE study list across Text Response and Creating Text frameworks.
Built on VCAA Rubrics
Every criterion and grade descriptor from the VCAA English rubric is built into Edexia's grading system. The AI evaluates essays against the same standards VCAA assessors use during the examination process. A team of experienced VCE English examiners trains and validates the system on an ongoing basis.
Every Text on the Study List
For each text, Edexia maintains a knowledge base of themes, authorial intent, key passages, and critical context. This means the AI understands what a strong essay about that specific text looks like, not just what a generically good essay looks like.
Short Stories & Contemporary Fiction
- Bad Dreams by Tessa Hadley
- The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
- The Erratics by Vicki Laveau-Harvie
Classic Literature
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- Castle by Shirley Jackson
Drama & Theatre
- Medea by Euripides
- Twelfth Night by Shakespeare
- Oedipus by Sophocles
- 12 Angry Men by Reginald Rose
Film
- Billy Elliot by Stephen Daldry
- Sunset Boulevard by Billy Wilder
- High Ground by Stephen Johnson
- Lion by Garth Davis
Australian Literature
- Nine Days by Toni Jordan
- Flames by Robbie Arnott
- Rainbow's End by Jane Harrison
- My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin
- Minimum of Two by Tim Winton
International Fiction
- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold by García Márquez
- The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
- Orbital by Samantha Harvey
- Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss
Poetry
- New & Selected Poems by Mary Oliver
- Selected Poems by Langston Hughes
Indigenous Voices
- False Claims of Colonial Thieves by Claire G. Coleman
- We Come with This Place by Debra Dank
Graphic Novel
- Requiem by Matt Ottley
War & History
- Regeneration by Pat Barker
Text Response and Creating Text
Edexia supports both major VCE English frameworks. For Text Response, the system evaluates analytical argument, textual evidence, and critical interpretation. For Creating Text, it assesses creative expression, voice, and narrative or stylistic technique. Each framework uses its own rubric mapping and assessment criteria.
SACs, Practice Exams, and Moderation
Edexia is used for practice SACs, trial exams, and ongoing formative assessment throughout the VCE English year. Teachers can run full classes through Edexia, then review and moderate the AI grades as a department. This makes moderation faster and gives every student detailed, criterion-level feedback that would be impossible to write by hand at scale.
In a trial across 579 essays at St Bernard's College, Edexia achieved 81.2% exact agreement with teacher grades and 98.3% within one grade band. Read more about accuracy.