VCE Physics Practice Exams with Worked Solutions

The 20 practice exams inside the VCE Physics Mastery Pack, each set out like the real paper with a separate worked-solution guide. Open any paper to see what it covers.

1. Practice Exam 1130 marks · 31 questions · 2 sections
   • Realistic VCE Section B weighting across all four areas (Motion 29, Fields & Electricity 33, Waves 19, Modern 29 = 110 marks)
   • Every numerical answer recomputed in Python (formula → substitution → answer with units) and cross-checked for internal consistency
   • Long jump / athletics-stadium context flavour threaded through projectile, impulse, circular motion, induction, optics and photoelectric items
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2. Practice Exam 2130 marks · 31 questions · 2 sections
   • Motion: forces, projectile/circular motion, gravitation & orbits, momentum/impulse/energy (38 marks)
   • Fields & electricity: transmission/transformers, EM induction, charges in fields, motor effect (36 marks)
   • Waves & modern physics: special relativity, photoelectric effect, double-slit, de Broglie (36 marks)
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3. Practice Exam 3130 marks · 33 questions · 2 sections
   • Realistic VCE weighting across all four areas: Motion 25, Fields & Electricity 36, Waves 15, Modern Physics 34 (= 110)
   • Particle-accelerator context woven through every question (photoinjector, beam optics, magnet cooling, grid supply, muon relativity, electron-diffraction probes)
   • Every numeric answer recomputed in Python; one graph/data question (Q7) and explicit explain/justify items (Q4d, Q5c, Q6c, Q11c)
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4. Practice Exam 4130 marks · 32 questions · 2 sections
   • Realistic VCE Section B weighting across all four areas (Motion 34, Fields & Electricity 28, Waves 18, Modern 30 = 110 marks)
   • Calculation chains shown as formula → substitution → answer with units, every numerical answer recomputed and verified in Python
   • At least one graph/data-interpretation question (Q5 photoelectric) and multiple explain/justify parts woven into an electricity-grid-transmission context
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5. Practice Exam 5130 marks · 32 questions · 2 sections
   • U3 AOS1 motion (Newton, circular, gravitation, momentum) - 38 marks
   • U3 AOS2 fields & electricity (motor effect, induction, transformers, charges in fields) - 36 marks
   • U4 AOS1 modern physics (relativity, photoelectric, de Broglie) - 28 marks + waves (double-slit) - 8 marks
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6. Practice Exam 6130 marks · 32 questions · 2 sections
   • Motion & mechanics dominate the paper (55/110): vertical & banked circular motion at the loop, energy conservation with friction, projectile launch, gravitation/orbits, a v-t graph data task, and momentum/impulse with a spring launcher.
   • Fields & electricity (19/110): a step-up transformer feeding the ride with a transmission-loss comparison, and an eddy-current magnetic braking fin via Faraday/Lenz and the motor effect.
   • Waves (17/110): standing waves in a closed warning-horn pipe plus beats, and a Young's double-slit laser light show including a 'find lambda' inversion and a qualitative change.
   • Modern physics (19/110): photoelectric effect with threshold/stopping voltage and a de Broglie wavelength, plus special relativity time dilation and length contraction on a 'near-light' simulator with an explain part.
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7. Practice Exam 7130 marks · 32 questions · 2 sections
   • Charged particles in fields (qvB circular motion, acceleration through a pd, motor effect, induction) framed around MRI hardware
   • Modern physics depth: photoelectric graph analysis to extract Planck's constant and work function, de Broglie matter waves, and special relativity for a fast proton
   • Mechanics and AC electricity breadth: projectile/collision/gravitation plus transformer and transmission-loss reasoning, with explicit formula-substitution-units working
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8. Practice Exam 8130 marks · 32 questions · 2 sections
   • Realistic VCAA Section B weighting: Motion 28, Fields & Electricity 37, Waves 18, Modern Physics 27 (= 110 marks across 12 questions)
   • Every numerical answer recomputed in Python (formula → substitution → answer with units) before output
   • Radio-astronomy context thread: dish actuators, observatory power, antennas, interferometer electrons, cosmic-ray muons; includes a graph/data question (Q10) and explain/justify items (Q4c, Q5c, Q7c, Q11d)
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9. Practice Exam 9130 marks · 32 questions · 2 sections
   • Realistic VCE weighting across all four content areas (motion, fields & electricity, waves, modern physics) with a unifying 'solar panels & photoelectric' context flavour
   • Every numerical answer verified by recomputation in Python; formula → substitution → answer with units shown in each sample solution
   • Includes a graph/data-interpretation question (Q5 photoelectric Ek-vs-f) and multiple explain/justify parts (Q4d, Q6c, Q7d, Q9c)
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10. Practice Exam 10130 marks · 33 questions · 2 sections
    • Fields & electricity (induction, motor effect, transformers/transmission) weighted heaviest — natural fit for the maglev context
    • Calculation rigour: every numerical answer recomputed (formula → substitution → answer with units) and verified
    • Spread across all four areas with a graph-interpretation item (Q13) and explain/justify items (Q3 Lenz, Q4, Q8, Q10)
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11. Practice Exam 11130 marks · 31 questions · 2 sections
    • Pendulum & energy context woven through mechanics (motion AOS dominant at 61 marks)
    • Mandatory coverage: 1 graph/data-interpretation question (Q10 photoelectric) and 1 explain/justify question (Q8 transmission)
    • Every numerical answer recomputed in Python before output; marks verified to sum to exactly 110
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12. Practice Exam 12130 marks · 32 questions · 2 sections
    • Motion: projectile, vertical circular motion, gravitation/orbits
    • Fields & electricity: power transmission/transformers, motor effect, EM induction
    • Waves & modern physics: standing waves, double-slit, photoelectric, relativity, de Broglie, sound/beats
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13. Practice Exam 13130 marks · 32 questions · 2 sections
    • Realistic VCE weighting across Motion (24), Fields & Electricity (39), Waves (18) and Modern Physics (29) — totalling exactly 110 marks
    • Authentic LIGO interferometry context threaded through every question (1064 nm Nd:YAG laser, suspended test-mass mirrors, seismic isolation, gravitational waves at c)
    • Every numerical answer recomputed and verified; full worked solutions with formula, substitution and units; includes graph/data-interpretation (Q6, Q8, Q11) and explain/justify items (Q2d, Q4d, Q7d, Q8e, Q9d, Q10c)
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14. Practice Exam 14130 marks · 32 questions · 2 sections
    • Realistic VCE weighting across Motion, Fields & Electricity, Waves, and Modern Physics with the double-slit-with-lasers context woven through every question
    • Full formula-to-substitution-to-answer worked solutions with every numerical value independently recomputed and verified in Python
    • Data/graph interpretation (photoelectric Ek-vs-f plot) plus explicit explain/justify items on Lenz's law, transmission loss and relativity
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15. Practice Exam 15130 marks · 33 questions · 2 sections
    • motion & gravitation (Q1, Q11)
    • fields & electricity (Q4, Q5, Q13)
    • waves (Q8, Q9)
    • modern physics — relativity & quanta (Q2, Q3, Q6, Q7, Q10, Q12)
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16. Practice Exam 16130 marks · 33 questions · 2 sections
    • Electron microscope & matter waves context flavour threaded through every question (electron guns, magnetic lenses, electron diffraction, de Broglie wavelength resolution).
    • Full VCE Section B coverage: Motion (33), Fields & electricity (44), Waves (10), Modern physics (23) = 110 marks across 13 questions.
    • Every numerical answer recomputed in Python (formula → substitution → answer with units); includes a photoelectric graph-interpretation question and explain/justify parts.
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17. Practice Exam 17130 marks · 31 questions · 2 sections
    • Realistic VCE weighting across all four areas (Motion 28, Fields/Electricity 32, Waves 27, Modern 23 marks) with formula-substitution-answer calculations
    • At least one graph/data-interpretation question (Q10 photoelectric Ek-vs-f graph; Q9 diffraction data table) and explain/justify items (Q5 Lenz, Q9 diffraction, Q11 relativity reasoning)
    • Every numerical answer recomputed in Python and verified; all per-part marks sum to question totals and questions sum to exactly 110
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18. Practice Exam 18130 marks · 31 questions · 2 sections
    • Realistic VCE weighting across all four study-design areas (motion/gravitation 29, fields & electricity 39, waves 20, modern 22 marks)
    • Every numerical answer recomputed in Python (formula to substitution to answer with units) before output
    • Spacecraft gravitational-slingshot context threaded through all 11 questions, including data-interpretation and explain/justify items
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19. Practice Exam 19130 marks · 33 questions · 2 sections
    • Motion: projectile, circular (conical + vertical), Hooke/collisions, gravitation/orbits
    • Fields & electricity: motor effect/DC motor, transformers & transmission loss, EM induction
    • Waves & modern: standing waves, double-slit, photoelectric, relativity, de Broglie matter waves
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20. Practice Exam 20130 marks · 32 questions · 2 sections
    • Realistic VCE Section B weighting across all four areas: Motion ~27 marks (Q1, Q10, Q11), Fields & electricity ~26 (Q2, Q3, Q6), Waves ~24 (Q4, Q7, Q8), Modern physics ~33 (Q5, Q9, Q12 + Q4) — exactly 110 marks
    • Medical-imaging & EM-spectrum context flavour woven through every question (X-ray tube, magnetic beam steering, MRI bore field, gamma/UV photons, photocathode detector, hospital transformer feed, ultrasound-style standing waves, double-slit film QC, PET annihilation & relativistic isotope, imaging-relay satellite orbit, electron microscope de Broglie)
    • Full exam-quality coverage: calculation items (formula → substitution → answer with units), one graph-plotting/gradient item (Q5) plus one data-table interpretation item (Q4), and explicit explain/justify parts (Q5d, Q7c, Q9c, Q12b); every numerical answer recomputed in Python before output
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