2025 · Written examination · Q1(i)20 marks
Bad Dreams and Other Stories: Disregarding social customs
Bad Dreams and Other Stories
Analytical text response · Section A · Optional question
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2025 · Written examination · Q2(i)20 marks
Born a Crime: Women’s influence
Born a Crime
Analytical text response · Section A · Optional question
2025 · Written examination · Q3(i)20 marks
Chronicle of a Death Foretold: Exploring truth
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Analytical text response · Section A · Optional question
2025 · Written examination · Q6(i)20 marks
Ghost Wall: Longing for the past
Ghost Wall
Analytical text response · Section A · Optional question
2025 · Written examination · Q8(i)20 marks
High Ground: Indigenous survival
High Ground
Analytical text response · Section A · Optional question
2025 · Written examination · QFramework 120 marks
Origins — writing about country
Writing about country
Text creation · Section B · Optional question
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| Topic | 2025 | Years present |
|---|---|---|
| Bad Dreams and Other Stories | 1/1 | |
| Born a Crime | 1/1 | |
| Chronicle of a Death Foretold | 1/1 | |
| Ghost Wall | 1/1 | |
| High Ground | 1/1 | |
| Writing about country | 1/1 |
Bad Dreams and Other Stories
Present in 1 of 1 year shown
Born a Crime
Present in 1 of 1 year shown
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Present in 1 of 1 year shown
Ghost Wall
Present in 1 of 1 year shown
High Ground
Present in 1 of 1 year shown
Writing about country
Present in 1 of 1 year shown
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All printed alternatives are counted in these historical shares; candidates follow the paper’s instructions to choose which questions to answer. Mixed-topic items are kept together, and each indexed question contributes its marks once.
Official question identities, mark allocations and published results come from VCAA. Labels, topic coding and syllabus mappings are ATARMAxxing analysis. Historical shares describe indexed printed marks, not future-question probabilities or a candidate’s assessed weighting. Wrong-option rates exclude omissions; zero-mark and full-mark proportions are separate measures. Published rounding is retained: means and outcome percentages are separate reported statistics, and no mean is reconstructed from rounded distribution percentages. Source links open the parent question or text; use the official paper for exact wording, figures and later parts. The current examination has three 20-mark sections: one analytical text response, one creating-text task and one argument/language analysis. The index contains 900 printed alternative marks per year, while a candidate answers 60. Writing time is 180 minutes plus 15 minutes reading. There is no listening section in these current-design examination papers. Only 2 completed current-design main examination year(s) are available in this corpus; this is not a three-year trend. Current text eligibility is checked against the official 2026 list, including prescribed collection pieces. Discontinued texts remain explicitly legacy. Trends include the indexed historical alternatives; new 2026 texts with no exam history do not have a zero future probability. Practice selections are subsets and do not enforce a full official multi-part text-choice pathway. Pooled or differently scaled report tables remain in the internal evidence ledger and are not fabricated as option-level means.
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Official question identities, mark allocations and published results come from VCAA. Labels, topic coding and syllabus mappings are ATARMAxxing analysis. Historical shares describe indexed printed marks, not future-question probabilities or a candidate’s assessed weighting. Wrong-option rates exclude omissions; zero-mark and full-mark proportions are separate measures. Published rounding is retained: means and outcome percentages are separate reported statistics, and no mean is reconstructed from rounded distribution percentages. Source links open the parent question or text; use the official paper for exact wording, figures and later parts. The current examination has three 20-mark sections: one analytical text response, one creating-text task and one argument/language analysis. The index contains 900 printed alternative marks per year, while a candidate answers 60. Writing time is 180 minutes plus 15 minutes reading. There is no listening section in these current-design examination papers. Only 2 completed current-design main examination year(s) are available in this corpus; this is not a three-year trend. Current text eligibility is checked against the official 2026 list, including prescribed collection pieces. Discontinued texts remain explicitly legacy. Trends include the indexed historical alternatives; new 2026 texts with no exam history do not have a zero future probability. Practice selections are subsets and do not enforce a full official multi-part text-choice pathway. Pooled or differently scaled report tables remain in the internal evidence ledger and are not fabricated as option-level means.
Classification: VCE Units 3 and 4 study design from 2024; 2026 prescribed-text eligibility; 2024–2025 main examinations. Each question is counted at the separately marked subpart level. The source questions and stimuli remain in the authority's original documents.
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