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HSC Studies of Religion Practice Exams with Worked Solutions

20 full-length papers · worked solutions for every question

The 20 practice exams inside the HSC Studies of Religion 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 · 28 questions · 4 sections
    • Contemporary Aboriginal spiritualities and the Dreaming
    • Dispossession and the Stolen Generations
    • Native Title, Mabo and Wik
    • Census patterns of religious adherence
    • Interfaith dialogue and Reconciliation
  2. Practice Exam 2100 marks · 29 questions · 4 sections
    • Significant person or school of thought in Buddhism
    • Buddhist ethical teachings
    • Pilgrimage, Temple Puja and Wesak
    • Peace in the Sutta Pitaka and Dhammapada
    • Inner peace in two traditions
  3. Practice Exam 3100 marks · 30 questions · 4 sections
    • Significant person or school of thought in Christianity
    • Christian ethical teachings on bioethics
    • Baptism and Saturday/Sunday worship
    • Peace in the New Testament
    • World peace initiatives of two traditions
  4. Practice Exam 4100 marks · 29 questions · 4 sections
    • Significant person or school of thought in Islam
    • Islamic ethical teachings
    • Friday prayer, Funeral ceremony and Hajj
    • Peace in the Qur'an and Hadith
    • Principal teachings about peace
  5. Practice Exam 5100 marks · 30 questions · 4 sections
    • Significant person or school of thought in Judaism
    • Jewish ethical teachings
    • Death and mourning, marriage and Synagogue services
    • The Prophetic vision of peace on Earth
    • Inner peace and world peace compared
  6. Practice Exam 6100 marks · 28 questions · 4 sections
    • Significant person or school of thought in Hinduism
    • Hindu ethical teachings on environmental ethics
    • Hindu marriage, pilgrimage and Temple Worship
    • Peace in the Bhagavad Gita
    • Contribution of two traditions to world peace
  7. Practice Exam 7100 marks · 30 questions · 4 sections
    • Animism, polytheism and monotheism
    • Meaning, social cohesion and social transformation
    • Global distribution of the five major traditions
    • New religious expression and spiritualities
    • Atheism, Agnosticism and Humanism
  8. Practice Exam 8100 marks · 29 questions · 4 sections
    • Denominational switching and secularism
    • Rise of New Age religions
    • Immigration and the current religious landscape
    • Ecumenism in Australia
    • Aboriginal spiritualities and Reconciliation
  9. Practice Exam 9100 marks · 28 questions · 4 sections
    • Impact of a significant person on a tradition
    • Sexual ethics across traditions
    • Significance of practice for individual and community
    • Sacred texts and peace
    • Achieving inner peace
  10. Practice Exam 10100 marks · 30 questions · 4 sections
    • Effect of dispossession on Aboriginal spiritualities
    • Land Rights and the Dreaming
    • Changing patterns of adherence since 1945
    • Non-religious worldviews and the transcendent
    • Comparing religious and non-religious responses
  11. Practice Exam 11100 marks · 29 questions · 4 sections
    • Environmental ethics in two traditions
    • Ethical teachings and sacred texts
    • Practice as an expression of belief
    • Religion and Peace stimulus response
    • Principal teachings about peace
  12. Practice Exam 12100 marks · 30 questions · 4 sections
    • Bioethics across the five traditions
    • Schools of thought and tradition development
    • Adherents' lived experience of practice
    • World peace and religious organisations
    • Inner peace and ritual
  13. Practice Exam 13100 marks · 28 questions · 4 sections
    • Kinship and ceremonial life
    • Obligations to land and people
    • Stolen Generations and separation
    • Reconciliation processes
    • Interfaith dialogue outcomes
  14. Practice Exam 14100 marks · 29 questions · 4 sections
    • Materialism, science and ecological awareness
    • Disenchantment with traditional religion
    • Reasons for new religious expression
    • Humanism's aspirations and behaviour
    • The human person and social responsibility
  15. Practice Exam 15100 marks · 30 questions · 4 sections
    • Significant people and the expression of tradition
    • Ethical decision-making sources
    • Practice, belief and community identity
    • Two traditions on peace
    • Peace in a contemporary context
  16. Practice Exam 16100 marks · 29 questions · 4 sections
    • Christianity as the major religious tradition
    • Australian census and religious adherence
    • New Age religions and spirituality
    • Secularism in Australia
    • Religious dialogue in a multifaith society
  17. Practice Exam 17100 marks · 30 questions · 4 sections
    • Depth study part (a) short response technique
    • Depth study part (b) explanation technique
    • Depth study extended response technique
    • Section IV essay planning
    • Use of religious terminology
  18. Practice Exam 18100 marks · 28 questions · 4 sections
    • Analysing stimulus quotations
    • Integrating sacred text citations
    • Structuring a 20-mark extended response
    • Sustaining a judgement across an essay
    • Cohesive communication of complex ideas
  19. Practice Exam 19100 marks · 29 questions · 4 sections
    • Global distribution statistics
    • Social transformation through religion
    • Agnosticism and Atheism distinguished
    • Rational and Scientific Humanism
    • Religious dimension in human history
  20. Practice Exam 20100 marks · 30 questions · 4 sections
    • Whole-tradition treatment of a religion
    • Diversity within a tradition
    • Two-tradition requirement in Religion and Peace
    • Different traditions in Sections II and III
    • Managing time across four sections
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