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HSC Engineering Studies Practice Exams with Worked Solutions

20 full-length papers · worked solutions for every question

The 20 practice exams inside the HSC Engineering Studies Mastery Pack, each set out like the real paper with a separate worked-solution guide. Open any paper to see what it covers.

  1. Practice Exam 1100 marks · 27 questions · 2 sections
    • Civil: pedestrian bridge truss (method of joints and sections)
    • Transport: boat winch on a slipway (friction, MA, VR, efficiency)
    • Aeronautical: turbofan versus turboprop and stall
    • Telecommunications: fibre-optic cabling, signal-strength testing and FTTP
    • Communication: half-pattern development of a transition piece
  2. Practice Exam 2100 marks · 27 questions · 2 sections
    • Civil: playground frame reactions, SF and BM diagrams
    • Transport: heat treatment of steel axle components
    • Aeronautical: L/D ratio and payload calculation
    • Telecommunications: AM, FM and digital radio
    • Communication: assembled sectional view of a wheel hub
  3. Practice Exam 3100 marks · 27 questions · 2 sections
    • Civil: stress/strain test data for a steel tie rod and factor of safety
    • Transport: electric bus traction motors and speed control
    • Aeronautical: Bernoulli, venturi and pitot-static instruments
    • Telecommunications: logic-gate control of a signal booster
    • Communication: isometric sketch from orthogonal views
  4. Practice Exam 4100 marks · 27 questions · 2 sections
    • Civil: pre-tensioned versus post-tensioned bridge girders
    • Transport: escalator power and energy
    • Aeronautical: aluminium–copper alloys and age hardening
    • Telecommunications: CRT television history and display media
    • Communication: AS 1100 drawing interpretation of a bracket
  5. Practice Exam 5100 marks · 27 questions · 2 sections
    • Civil: bolted steel connection in shear with factor of safety
    • Transport: ladder and inclined-plane static friction
    • Aeronautical: non-destructive testing of a wing spar
    • Telecommunications: semiconductors in a mobile phone
    • Communication: sectioned front view of a towing assembly
  6. Practice Exam 6100 marks · 27 questions · 2 sections
    • Civil: crack theory and repair in concrete and steel
    • Transport: polymer components and moulding processes in cars
    • Aeronautical: hydraulic brakes and Pascal’s principle
    • Telecommunications: satellite systems and GPS for rural users
    • Communication: graphical solution of a concurrent force system
  7. Practice Exam 7100 marks · 27 questions · 2 sections
    • Civil: dam and retaining wall materials, geotextiles
    • Transport: welding and the heat-affected zone of a trailer chassis
    • Aeronautical: airframe bending stress in a wing spar
    • Telecommunications: 4G and 5G spectrum and antenna spacing
    • Communication: CAD and collaborative design in an Engineering Report
  8. Practice Exam 8100 marks · 27 questions · 2 sections
    • Civil: cable-stayed bridge history and social impact
    • Transport: work and energy of a roller-coaster style people mover
    • Aeronautical: composites and FML in airliners
    • Telecommunications: copper alloys and ETP copper in connectors
    • Communication: development of a cylindrical hopper outlet
  9. Practice Exam 9100 marks · 27 questions · 2 sections
    • Civil: crane jib truss by method of sections
    • Transport: hardness and impact testing of helmet and axle materials
    • Aeronautical: scramjet and rocket propulsion
    • Telecommunications: WHS hazards for tower and pit workers
    • Communication: third-angle orthogonal views of a bracket at scale 1:2
  10. Practice Exam 10100 marks · 27 questions · 2 sections
    • Civil: corrosion of a coastal jetty and protection methods
    • Transport: gear trains and winches (MA, VR, efficiency)
    • Aeronautical: altimeter and airspeed indicator operation
    • Telecommunications: fibre optics versus copper versus microwave
    • Communication: assembled sectional view of a pulley block
  11. Practice Exam 11100 marks · 27 questions · 2 sections
    • Civil: simply supported beam with three point loads and bending stress
    • Transport: brushless DC motors in e-bikes
    • Aeronautical: ethics and accountability after an aviation incident
    • Telecommunications: digital logic for a security system
    • Communication: freehand pictorial sketch of a router enclosure
  12. Practice Exam 12100 marks · 27 questions · 2 sections
    • Civil: glass, bricks and cement in buildings
    • Transport: forging versus casting of crankshafts
    • Aeronautical: thermosetting polymers and vacuum lay-up
    • Telecommunications: mobile telephony call path
    • Communication: sectional view conventions (ribs, fasteners, shafts)
  13. Practice Exam 13100 marks · 27 questions · 2 sections
    • Civil: truss with an inclined load solved graphically and mathematically
    • Transport: series–parallel lighting circuit in a caravan
    • Aeronautical: history of flight in Australia and the Royal Flying Doctor Service
    • Telecommunications: zener diodes, LEDs and laser diodes
    • Communication: transition piece (square to rectangle) development
  14. Practice Exam 14100 marks · 27 questions · 2 sections
    • Civil: recycling materials from a demolished building
    • Transport: aluminium alloys in vehicle bodies
    • Aeronautical: forces in level flight and climbing flight
    • Telecommunications: analogue to digital conversion and modulation
    • Communication: orthogonal assembly dimensioned drawing to AS 1100
  15. Practice Exam 15100 marks · 27 questions · 2 sections
    • Civil: X-ray and concrete slump/compression testing
    • Transport: angle of repose for loading ramps
    • Aeronautical: Kevlar and carbon fibre in helicopter blades
    • Telecommunications: legal and ethical issues of surveillance cameras
    • Communication: isometric sketch of a wing rib
  16. Practice Exam 16100 marks · 27 questions · 2 sections
    • Civil: timber versus steel in playground and pedestrian structures
    • Transport: normalising and annealing of cold-worked parts
    • Aeronautical: pit, crevice and stress corrosion in airframes
    • Telecommunications: satellite orbits and latency
    • Communication: CAD modelling and 3D printing in prototyping
  17. Practice Exam 17100 marks · 27 questions · 2 sections
    • Civil: method of joints on a cantilever truss
    • Transport: kinetic energy and braking work of a light rail vehicle
    • Aeronautical: turboprop and piston engines in regional aviation
    • Telecommunications: digital television and display technologies
    • Communication: development of an oblique cylinder
  18. Practice Exam 18100 marks · 27 questions · 2 sections
    • Civil: asphalt and laminated pavements
    • Transport: injection-moulded and blow-moulded vehicle parts
    • Aeronautical: hydrostatic pressure in fuel systems
    • Telecommunications: insulation and voltage testing of cables
    • Communication: sectional view of a valve body
  19. Practice Exam 19100 marks · 27 questions · 2 sections
    • Civil: stress/strain diagram for ductile and brittle materials
    • Transport: powder forming of sintered gears
    • Aeronautical: engineers as managers in aircraft projects
    • Telecommunications: AND, NAND, NOR and OR gates in combination
    • Communication: graphical solution of lift and weight vectors
  20. Practice Exam 20100 marks · 27 questions · 2 sections
    • Civil: bridge bearing and pier innovations
    • Transport: electric motors, control technology and electrical safety in trains
    • Aeronautical: lift equation reasoning and stall recovery
    • Telecommunications: NBN fibre and fixed-wireless history
    • Communication: half-pattern development of a hood
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Engineering Studies · 20 practice exams