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ATARMAxxing indexes 15 official QCAA English papers from 2020 to 2025, across 5 topics. Every paper opens on the QCAA website.
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Past exams indexed: 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. Open the official QCAA papers, with marking guidance where available.
| Year | Study design | Official paper(s) | Marking guidance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 QCE English exam | English 2019 syllabus | Question book ↗ · Response book ↗ · Marking guide ↗ | Marking guidance ↗ |
| 2024 QCE English exam | English 2019 syllabus | External Assessment — Question book ↗ · External Assessment — Response book ↗ · Marking guide (combined English + EAL) ↗ | Marking guidance ↗ |
| 2023 QCE English exam | English 2019 syllabus | External Assessment — Question book ↗ · External Assessment — Response book ↗ · Marking guide (combined English + EAL) ↗ | Marking guidance ↗ |
| 2022 QCE English exam | English 2019 syllabus | External Assessment — Question book ↗ | Marking guidance ↗ |
| 2021 QCE English exam | English 2019 syllabus | External Assessment — Question book ↗ · External Assessment — Response book ↗ · Marking guide (combined English + EAL) ↗ | Marking guidance ↗ |
| 2020 QCE English exam | English 2019 syllabus | External Assessment — Question book ↗ · External Assessment — Response book ↗ | Marking guidance ↗ |
15 official papers across 6 years (2020–2025), 6 with marking guidance, published by QCAA. These span more than one study design; the most recent is English 2025 syllabus (v1.3). Earlier papers may cover material that has since changed.
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- Unit 1: Perspectives and texts — How texts represent perspectives, cultural assumptions, attitudes, values and beliefs · Analytical response to texts (understanding dimension) · Imaginative/creative response for a public or specified audience (creating dimension) · Introductory analysis of language, structure and register across print, spoken, multimodal texts
- Unit 2: Texts and culture — How cultural assumptions, attitudes, values and beliefs are embedded, challenged or reinforced in texts · Comparative/analytical exposition responding to a single complex text · Persuasive spoken or multimodal response for a public audience · Textual features and conventions shaping cultural representation
- Unit 3: Textual connections — Written response for a public audience connecting two texts on a shared concept, identity, time or place (2026 IA2) · Spoken persuasive response (2026 IA1) · Representation and perspective across paired/connected texts · Purpose, audience and context in constructing meaning across text pairs
- Unit 4: Close study of literary texts — Close analytical study of a single literary text (novel, play, film or similar) · Imaginative written response (IA3); external assessment is a separate analytical essay on a prescribed literary text · Literary techniques, style and authorial choices · External analytical essay: Unit4, current external prescribed text list; illustrative or retired texts are not automatically eligible
- Assessment objectives (cross-unit, examinable) — Comprehending and interpreting texts · Analysing how texts are constructed to create meaning and effects · Evaluating perspectives, representations and how texts position audiences · Creating (written, spoken, multimodal) texts for specified purposes and audiences · Using language conventions and structures accurately and effectively
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