VCE Command Terms

Describe a series of events or transactions.

• account of

• calculate

• clarify

• examine

State reasons for; report on.

• account for

• deduce

• distinguish

• investigate

Identify components/elements and the significance of the relationship between them; draw out and relate implications; determine logic and reasonableness of information.

• analyse

• compare

• discuss

• identify

Use; employ in a particular situation or context.

• apply

• deduce

• extrapolate

• investigate

Make a judgment about, or measure, determine or estimate, the value, quality, outcomes, results, size, significance, nature or extent of something.

• assess

• analyse

• demonstrate

• summarise

Determine from given facts, figures or information; obtain a numerical answer showing the relevant stages in the working; determine or find (e.g. a number, answer) by using mathematical processes.

• calculate

• distinguish

• evaluate

• investigate

Make a statement or situation more comprehensible.

• clarify

• compare

• construct

• define

Recognise similarities and differences and the significance of these similarities and differences.

• compare

• distinguish

• outline

• summarise

Make, build, create or put together by arranging ideas or items (e.g. an argument, artefact or solution); display information in a diagrammatic or logical form.

• construct

• describe

• investigate

• synthesise

Show how things are different or opposite.

• contrast

• describe

• assess

• recount