VCE English past exams 2016–2025, by year and topic

The rest of the study design

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

• Reading and responding to texts — Analysing ideas, concerns and values presented in a text · How vocabulary, text structures and language features make meaning · Explicit and implicit ideas in a text (Unit 4 extension) · Author's/composer's construction of meaning and views and values
• Creating texts — Producing an original text responding to a specific context, audience and purpose · Explaining decisions made through the writing process · Exploring ideas connected to a set theme (e.g. protest, personal journey, play, country) · Crafting for mode, form and language choices
• Analysing argument — Identifying contention and supporting arguments in persuasive texts · Analysing use of argument and language across a written text and a text in another mode (audio/audio-visual) · How persuasive techniques position an audience · Developing and presenting a point-of-view text
• Exploring argument (Units 1–2 foundation) — Analysing persuasive techniques in spoken, written and multimodal texts · Constructing a point of view for oral presentation · Identifying bias, tone and rhetorical strategies
• Reading and exploring texts (Units 1–2 foundation) — Making personal connections with texts · Exploring how texts construct meaning · Demonstrating understanding of effective writing through crafting texts