SACE English as an Additional Language past exams 2022–2025, by year and topic

Listening — Section 1 Part A: comprehending aural texts · 6 mapped questions

Also in this topic: Section 1 format, timing and the two-listening strategy · Note-taking from lectures and talks: keywords, numbers, names and abbreviations · Part A task types: completing tables and diagrams, summarising and planning from a listening text · Answering short comprehension questions precisely: marks, command words and question word order · Context, purpose and audience in spoken texts: speeches, interviews and information sessions — question-level mapping in progress; the year table above links every official paper.

Persuasion — Section 1 Part B: analysing persuasive and multimodal texts · 11 mapped questions

Also in this topic: Identifying purpose and a specific target audience with evidence · Reliability, trustworthiness, fact versus opinion and bias · Persuasive techniques: identify, exemplify and explain the effect · Emotive techniques and emotive language: how texts make readers feel · Visual and multimodal features: layout, images, colour, typography and calls to action · The comparison question: which text is more convincing, with evidence from both — question-level mapping in progress; the year table above links every official paper.

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.

• Extended response — Section 2: extended written response from related texts — Reading Texts 4-6: highlighting arguments, evaluating sources and interpreting data · Choosing a text type: essay, persuasive piece or report and their conventions · Planning and structure: introductions, synthesised body paragraphs and conclusions · Paraphrasing and synthesising sources without copying · In-text referencing under exam conditions: Harvard author-year and integrated citations · Analysing personal, social and cultural perspectives and developing a point of view
• Language — Communication: clarity, grammatical control and register — Academic register: nominalisation, passive voice, hedging and formal vocabulary · Grammatical control and proofreading: agreement, tense, articles and sentence boundaries · Cohesion, connectives, vocabulary range and idioms