QCE Geography past exams 2020–2025, by year and topic

The rest of the syllabus

Question-level mapping for these areas is still being verified. Every official paper covering them is in the year table above.

• Unit 1 — Responding to risk and vulnerability in hazard zones — Topic 1: Natural hazard zones (geological, geomorphic and atmospheric hazards; spatial patterns and vulnerability/risk case studies in developed and developing countries) · Topic 2: Ecological hazard zones (spread and impacts of a selected ecological hazard; primary, secondary and tertiary community impacts)
• Unit 2 — Planning sustainable places — Topic 1: Place and liveability (factors contributing to liveability of a local Australian place; fieldwork and action proposal to improve liveability/sustainability) · Topic 2: Managing challenges facing a megacity (urbanisation processes and growth of megacities; case study of one megacity in Africa, Asia or South America and its sustainable-development challenges)
• Unit 3 — Responding to land cover transformations (Externally Assessed) — Topic 1: Land cover transformations and climate change (spatial distribution of global land cover types; deforestation, land drainage, reclamation, resource extraction and agricultural intensification; climate change trends and implications) · Topic 2: Responding to local land cover transformations (fieldwork-based investigation of a local land/water management challenge using the geographic inquiry model; proposed management action)
• Unit 4 — Managing population change (Externally Assessed) — Topic 1: Population challenges in Australia (demographic concepts and models; spatial patterns of demographic change; proposed action for a population challenge in an Australian place) · Topic 2: Global population change (demographic processes and interactions producing patterns of population change, movement and distribution at global, regional and local scales; impacts on places of origin and destination)