TCE Studies of Religion past exams 2024–2025, by year and topic

Section A — Religious tradition 1 and a major variant · 4 mapped questions

Section B — Contemporary issues · 4 mapped questions

Section C — Depth study · 10 mapped questions

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.

• Module 1 — Religious tradition 1 and a major variant — Introduction to religious traditions: theological, philosophical, historical and sociological issues; Ninian Smart's dimensions · Beliefs about the divine and the metaphysical · Purpose and meaning of human existence and the human condition · Relationship between humans and the world and moral behaviour · Ritual, worship and other practices; stories and texts · Death and the afterlife · A major variant: history of development, differences in doctrine and practice, conflict and cooperation
• Module 2 — Religious tradition 2: suffering or ethics — Beliefs about the divine, the metaphysical and the human condition in the second tradition · Suffering: understanding of and responses to suffering; guidance and solace; why suffering is allowed; case study · Ethics: how beliefs underpin ethical views; rules, commandments, precepts, leaders, story and text; case study (ecology, social justice, war, medical intervention, relationships, interpretation of texts)
• Module 3 — Depth study topics — Topic A: Women and religion · Topic B: Contemporary war or conflict · Topic C: Religious ethics · Topic D: Science and religion · Topic E: Aboriginal Spirituality · Contexts, perspectives, change or lack of change, and the evaluation of sources