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SACE Geography past exams 2023–2025, by year and topic

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ATARMAxxing indexes 4 official SACE Board Geography papers from 2023 to 2025, with 27 questions mapped to 4 topics. Every paper opens on the SACE Board website.

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Earlier outline — 2023 and prior (check current requirements) · 2023–2023Current Subject Outline (version 1.0, from 2024) · 2024–present

SACE Geography exams by year: official papers & marking guidance

Past exams indexed: 2025, 2024, 2023. Open the official SACE Board papers, with marking guidance where available.

YearStudy designOfficial paper(s)Marking guidance
2025 SACE Geography examCurrent Subject Outline (version 1.0, from 2024)2025 official Geography e-exam ↗ · 2025 Geography map sheet (A4 PDF) ↗Marking guidance ↗
2024 SACE Geography examCurrent Subject Outline (version 1.0, from 2024)2024 official Geography e-exam ↗Marking guidance ↗
2023 SACE Geography examEarlier outline — 2023 and prior (check current requirements)2023 official Geography e-exam ↗Marking guidance ↗

4 official papers across 3 years (2023–2025), 3 with marking guidance, published by SACE Board. These span more than one study design; the most recent is Current Subject Outline (version 1.0, from 2024). Earlier papers may cover material that has since changed.

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Geographical skills and fieldwork (examination Section 1) · 15 mapped questions

Grid references, area references and direction

Describing a route with direction, distance and land use

Photographs, satellite images and map comparison

Site suitability using map evidence

Primary data-collection techniques and validity

Hypotheses and evaluating data presentation

Describing a route with direction, distance, elevation and land cover

Comparing an older map with the current map

Evaluating and choosing visual representations of data

Also in this topic: Grid references, area references, direction and latitude/longitude · Scale: distance, route length and area from a topographic map · Contours, relief, spot heights and cross-sections · Interpreting aerial, oblique and ground photographs and satellite images · Site, situation and settlement pattern · Comparing an older map or image with the current map to describe change · Writing a testable fieldwork hypothesis · Primary data-collection techniques, sampling and data validity · Evaluating and choosing appropriate visual representations of data — question-level mapping in progress; the year table above links every official paper.

Topic 1: Ecosystems and people (examination Section 2) · 6 mapped questions

Ecosystem services: provisioning, regulating and cultural

Ecological footprint and biocapacity

Land-cover change and biodiversity loss

Land-cover change and the ecological footprint

  • 2024Current Subject Outline (version 1.0, from 2024)2024 official Geography e-exam Q6(a)-(c)9 marksExplains the impact of new housing land-cover change on two named ecosystem-component relationships, suggests ways this affects a city's total footprint, and explains two government footprint-reduction strategies.Official paper ↗Marking guidance ↗Check tutors for this question →

Also in this topic: Ecosystem components and their interconnections · Land-cover change, land degradation and biodiversity loss · The ecological footprint and biocapacity, and how they are measured · Why ecological footprints vary between countries · Strategies to reduce footprints and improve sustainability — question-level mapping in progress; the year table above links every official paper.

Topic 3: Population change (examination Section 2) · 6 mapped questions

Ageing and youthful populations and government responses

Population trends

Impacts of migration at origin and destination

Also in this topic: Birth rates, death rates, total fertility rate and natural change · Population structures, pyramids and the dependency ratio · Global population distribution · Types of migration and push and pull factors · Impacts of migration at origin and destination, including forced migration — question-level mapping in progress; the year table above links every official paper.

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  • Topics 2, 4 and 5 (school assessment only — not examined) — Topic 2: Climate change · Topic 4: Globalisation · Topic 5: Transforming global inequality

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