← HSC Modern History hub

HSC Modern History · Free interactive sample

Exam Predictors 2026

Find official questions, understand lost marks and choose what to practise next.

Historical evidence and practice priorities. Future exam questions are not guaranteed. Independent of NESA.

2023–2025 official papers · 149 marked questions and subparts. 100 marks per selected candidate paper. The core and each national study, conflict and change option are indexed separately. Choose the options you study; the printed alternatives are not a candidate workload. Showing 6 sample entries; trend percentages use this sample only. Official result percentages describe the published exam cohort.

Free sample: progress lasts for this visit.

Find your next question

Choose a topic, open the official question, then check your answer against examiner feedback.

Search question indexTopic

Sort questions

Official averages are unavailable for these entries. Fewer marks means a smaller question, not an easier question.

Build a practice set

Use your current filters to choose a set, then time your practice or print a worksheet.

Practice target

6 matching questions

2025 · Main examination · Q13 marks

Opposition to the Nazi regime

Power and authority 1919–1946

Source analysis · Section I

Add to set

2025 · Main examination · Q5(a)25 marks

Australia 1918–1949 · essay option a

Australia 1918–1949

Historical argument · Section II · Optional question

Add to set

2025 · Main examination · Q6(a)25 marks

China 1927–1949 · essay option a

China 1927–1949

Historical argument · Section II · Optional question

Add to set

2025 · Main examination · Q7(a)25 marks

India 1942–1984 · essay option a

India 1942–1984

Historical argument · Section II · Optional question

Add to set

2025 · Main examination · Q8(a)25 marks

Indonesia 1945–2005 · essay option a

Indonesia 1945–2005

Historical argument · Section II · Optional question

Add to set

2025 · Main examination · Q9(a)25 marks

Japan 1904–1937 · essay option a

Japan 1904–1937

Historical argument · Section II · Optional question

Add to set

What was tested, and how?

Compare the share of marks, then open the exact questions behind each figure.

CompareExam sectionPaperExam year

Sample only: Main examinations only. Percentages show the share of known printed marks in the selected section and year. These describe the indexed historical papers, not probabilities for 2026.

Topics · 6-question sample
Topic	2025	Years present
Australia 1918–1949		1/1
China 1927–1949		1/1
India 1942–1984		1/1
Indonesia 1945–2005		1/1
Japan 1904–1937		1/1
Power and authority 1919–1946		1/1

Australia 1918–1949

Present in 1 of 1 year shown

China 1927–1949

Present in 1 of 1 year shown

India 1942–1984

Present in 1 of 1 year shown

Indonesia 1945–2005

Present in 1 of 1 year shown

Japan 1904–1937

Present in 1 of 1 year shown

Power and authority 1919–1946

Present in 1 of 1 year shown

How marks and question types are counted

All printed alternatives are counted in these historical shares; candidates follow the paper’s instructions to choose which questions to answer. Mixed-topic items are kept together, and each indexed question contributes its marks once.

ATARMAxxing labels and skill groupings are analysis checked against official NESA mapping grids. A leaf row is counted once; mixed topics retain one shared mark allocation. Examiner advice keeps its published question or section scope. Historical printed-mark shares describe the selected source stratum and corpus; they are not probabilities for 2026. The core and each national study, conflict and change option are indexed separately. Choose the options you study; the printed alternatives are not a candidate workload.

Use these patterns alongside your own lost marks to choose practice. Keep covering the full syllabus: repeated topics are not guaranteed to appear again.

Official sources and how this analysis works

ATARMAxxing labels and skill groupings are analysis checked against official NESA mapping grids. A leaf row is counted once; mixed topics retain one shared mark allocation. Examiner advice keeps its published question or section scope. Historical printed-mark shares describe the selected source stratum and corpus; they are not probabilities for 2026. The core and each national study, conflict and change option are indexed separately. Choose the options you study; the printed alternatives are not a candidate workload.

Classification: Modern History Stage 6 (2017), applicable to HSC 2026. Each question is counted at the separately marked subpart level. The source questions and stimuli remain in the authority's original documents.