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SD 2018–2024 · 2018–2024SD 2025–2029 (From 2025) · 2025–2029

Official papers & examiner reports, year by year

YearStudy designOfficial paper(s)Examiner report
2025SD 2025–2029 (From 2025)Written examination ↗Report ↗
2024SD 2018–2024Written examination ↗Report ↗
2023SD 2018–2024Written examination ↗Report ↗
2022SD 2018–2024Written examination ↗Report ↗
2021SD 2018–2024Written examination ↗Report ↗
2020SD 2018–2024Written examination ↗Report ↗
2019SD 2018–2024Written examination ↗Report ↗
2018SD 2018–2024Written examination ↗Report ↗

All URLs were copied exactly from official vcaa.vic.edu.au HTML source (verified via curl grep of raw hrefs on the past-examinations index page) and individually re-verified with HTTP HEAD-equivalent GET requests returning 200 from the vcaa.vic.edu.au host — no vcaacorporateprod mirror URLs were needed since the primary domain resolved everything. Study-design boundary confirmed directly from the official 2025 study design docx (https://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/sites/default/files/2025-10/2025HealthHumanDevelopmentSD.docx), which states "Accreditation period: Units 1-4: 1 January 2025" and that the 2018-2024 study design's accreditation expired 31 December 2024 — so exams 2018-2024 are one era and 2025+ is the new era. Coverage: years[] covers 2018-2025 (8 years), which is every year VCAA hosts as an individually-named, distinctly-linked PDF at a stable pattern on the current site; VCAA's page also links an "Archive" section (2002-2017) but those pre-date the "most recent ~10 years" window and were excluded. 2020 and 2021 carry pandemic-era filename markers ("cpr" = coronavirus provisions, "emark" = e-marking); flagged in notes rather than fabricated as "exam cancelled" since the papers were in fact administered (unlike some other VCE subjects/years). topics[] is the exact wording of Unit 3 and Unit 4 (the only examined units) Areas of Study and key-knowledge dot points, extracted directly from the official 2025-2029 study design docx body text — not paraphrased from a secondary summary. I've also included Units 1-2 as unexamined/foundational topic entries for completeness of the subject's full structure, clearly labelled "not examined." questions[]: built ONLY from two papers I actually opened and extracted full text from — the 2025 written exam (verified 12 Section A questions + 1 Section B question, 90 marks total, matching the official examination specifications document) and the 2023 written exam (verified 9 questions, 100 marks, old study-design format). I deliberately did NOT build questions for 2024 because that PDF is a scanned/image-based file with zero extractable text (confirmed via pypdf — every page returned 0 characters), so per the strict instruction I left it unread rather than guessing. All descriptions are my own one-line paraphrases of question intent — no VCAA question text, stimulus wording, or examiner language was copied. Mark allocations and question numbering were read directly off the papers. One flagged gap: I was unable to extract readable text from the specs.docx via WebFetch's converter (it kept returning raw XML) but successfully extracted it locally via a docx-to-text unzip, which is how I confirmed the exact 90-mark/two-section format cited in year 2025's notes field. Years 2019-2022's exam PDFs were confirmed accessible (HTTP 200) via curl but not deep-read for question-level content, since the task only required questions[] where genuinely read, and I prioritized reading depth on 2025 (current syllabus, most relevant) and 2023 (comparison year) over breadth across all 8 years.

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Unit 3 AoS 1: Understanding health and wellbeing · 5 mapped questions

Concepts of health and wellbeing and illness (physical, social, emotional, mental, spiritual dimensions) as dynamic and subjective

Benefits of optimal health and wellbeing as an individual, national and global resource

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Indicators used to measure health status (incidence, prevalence, morbidity, burden of disease, DALY, YLL, YLD, life expectancy, HALE, mortality, self-assessed health status)

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Biological, sociocultural and environmental factors contributing to variations in health status between population groups

Contribution to Australia's health status of smoking/vaping, alcohol, overweight and obesity, and nutritional imbalance

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Unit 3 AoS 2: Promoting health in Australia · 9 mapped questions

Reasons for improvements in Australia's health status since 1900 ('old' public health, biomedical approach, social model of health, Ottawa Charter)

Role of health promotion in improving population health

Programs to improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples' health and promote social justice

Initiatives to promote healthy eating (Australian Dietary Guidelines, Australian Guide to Healthy Eating, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Guide to Healthy Eating) and challenges to nutritional change

  • 2025SD 2025–2029 (From 2025)Written examination Section A Q25 marksCompare the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Guide to Healthy Eating with the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating, then explain how an environmental challenge affects nutritional change.Official paper ↗Examiner report ↗Work through it with a tutor →
  • 2023SD 2018–2024Written examination Q512 marksOutline how fibre intake improves two health status indicators, describe Nutrition Australia's role in raising fibre intake, analyse the Australian Dietary Guidelines' strengths/weaknesses for this goal, and suggest why dietary improvement is difficult.Official paper ↗Examiner report ↗Work through it with a tutor →

Australia's health system (Medicare, private health insurance, PBS, NDIS) in terms of funding, sustainability, access and equity

Unit 4 AoS 1: Global health and human development · 5 mapped questions

Concept of human development and the Human Development Index (advantages and limitations)

Characteristics of low-, middle- and high-income countries

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Similarities and differences in health status and human development between countries, including Australia

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Factors contributing to health inequalities: access to safe water, sanitation, poverty, discrimination

Concept and dimensions of sustainability (environmental, social, economic) in promoting health and human development

Implications of global trends: climate change, conflict, mass migration, world trade, tourism, digital technologies

Unit 4 AoS 2: Health and the Sustainable Development Goals · 4 mapped questions

Importance of the UN's SDGs for health and human development globally

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Key features of SDG 3 and its relationships with SDGs 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 and 12

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Goal and objectives of the World Health Organization (WHO)

Types of aid (bilateral, multilateral, NGO) and features of effective aid programs

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Australia's aid program and partnerships supporting SDG achievement

  • 2025SD 2025–2029 (From 2025)Written examination Section A Q119 marksUsing a case study on the Global Partnership for Education, explain how Australia's support promotes an SDG, justify partnering with multilateral organisations, and identify another feature of effective aid it demonstrates.Official paper ↗Examiner report ↗Work through it with a tutor →

Individual and social action to promote health and human development

Unit 1: Understanding health and wellbeing (not examined, foundational) · question map rolling out

Concepts of health and dimensions of health and wellbeing

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Youth health status indicators and sociocultural influences

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Health and nutrition, food selection models

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Unit 2: Managing health and development (not examined, foundational) · question map rolling out

Developmental transitions from youth to adulthood

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Prenatal and early childhood influences on health

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Youth health literacy and access to Australia's health system

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