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WACE Health Studies past exams 2021–2025, by year and topic

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ATARMAxxing indexes 10 official SCSA Health Studies papers from 2021 to 2025, with 36 questions mapped to 9 topics. Every paper opens on the SCSA website.

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Year 12 syllabus for teaching from 2026 (v7; minor change to the aid program content) · 2026–2026Earlier Year 12 syllabus versions (papers 2021-2025 in this pack) · 2021–2025

WACE Health Studies exams by year: official papers & marking guidance

Past exams indexed: 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021. Open the official SCSA papers, with marking guidance where available.

YearStudy designOfficial paper(s)Marking guidance
2025 WACE Health Studies examEarlier Year 12 syllabus versions (papers 2021-2025 in this pack)Written examination ↗ · Ratified marking key ↗Marking guidance ↗
2024 WACE Health Studies examEarlier Year 12 syllabus versions (papers 2021-2025 in this pack)Written examination ↗ · Ratified marking key ↗Marking guidance ↗
2023 WACE Health Studies examEarlier Year 12 syllabus versions (papers 2021-2025 in this pack)Written examination ↗ · Ratified marking key ↗Marking guidance ↗
2022 WACE Health Studies examEarlier Year 12 syllabus versions (papers 2021-2025 in this pack)Written examination ↗ · Ratified marking key ↗Marking guidance ↗
2021 WACE Health Studies examEarlier Year 12 syllabus versions (papers 2021-2025 in this pack)Written examination ↗ · Ratified marking key ↗Marking guidance ↗

10 official papers across 5 years (2021–2025), 5 with marking guidance, published by WACE. These span more than one study design; the most recent is Year 12 syllabus for teaching from 2026 (v7; minor change to the aid program content). Earlier papers may cover material that has since changed.

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Holistic health and specific populations (Unit 3) · 4 mapped questions

Characteristics, needs, access and equity issues of specific populations

  • 2024Earlier Year 12 syllabus versions (papers 2021-2025 in this pack)Written examination Section Two Q2110 marksOn older Australians: outlines two access and two equity issues in health care, defines the PBS and how its safety net helps, and proposes three assertive actions older people could take.Official paper ↗Marking guidance ↗Check tutors for this question →

Factors that create health inequities

  • 2024Earlier Year 12 syllabus versions (papers 2021-2025 in this pack)Written examination Section Two Q2610 marksIdentifies two factors creating inequity for CALD Australians and their effect on health status, then describes two communication and collaboration skills that would prevent a poor GP consultation recurring.Official paper ↗Marking guidance ↗Check tutors for this question →

Quantitative and qualitative measures for detecting health inequities

  • 2025Earlier Year 12 syllabus versions (papers 2021-2025 in this pack)Written examination Section Three Q3115 marksExplains the difference between qualitative and quantitative measures, applies one of each to a migrant family on a regional skilled visa, and discusses geographical location and social networks as influences on recent migrants (3 + 6 + 6).Official paper ↗Marking guidance ↗Check tutors for this question →
  • 2023Earlier Year 12 syllabus versions (papers 2021-2025 in this pack)Written examination Section Two Q2213 marksDefines both measures with examples, explains why both are needed, then describes three factors creating inequity for a Wheatbelt couple needing fertility treatment in Perth.Official paper ↗Marking guidance ↗Check tutors for this question →

Models, frameworks and actions for health equity (Unit 3) · 13 mapped questions

Socio-ecological model of health

  • 2024Earlier Year 12 syllabus versions (papers 2021-2025 in this pack)Written examination Section Two Q279 marksDescribes how three socio-ecological levels explain persistent risky drinking among 16-24-year-olds, then outlines how those levels could reduce it.Official paper ↗Marking guidance ↗Check tutors for this question →
  • 2023Earlier Year 12 syllabus versions (papers 2021-2025 in this pack)Written examination Section One Q1-2020 marksTwenty multiple-choice items including socio-ecological levels, Maslow's self-actualisation, a resistant injured teenager, inquiry planning, Ottawa Charter and Rio actions, NSFCC objectives, self-management skills, source criteria, infographic and alcohol graph reading, social networks, PABCAR, health literacy, a WHO role, SDG 2 and advocacy.Official paper ↗Marking guidance ↗Check tutors for this question →

Social justice principles

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

PABCAR public health decision-making model

  • 2025Earlier Year 12 syllabus versions (papers 2021-2025 in this pack)Written examination Section One Q1-2020 marksTwenty multiple-choice items spanning PABCAR, socio-ecological levels, Ottawa Charter action areas, screening programs, Rio Declaration actions, WHO roles, identity after a disaster, NSFCC partnerships, biomedical determinants, gambling-advertising regulation, SDGs 2 and 3, inquiry argument, advocacy, rural access, culture and organ donation, collaboration skills, and a two-item education-by-remoteness graph.Official paper ↗Marking guidance ↗Check tutors for this question →
  • 2024Earlier Year 12 syllabus versions (papers 2021-2025 in this pack)Written examination Section Three Q2815 marksOn veterans experiencing homelessness: summarises three characteristics and two needs, then actions each PABCAR step in planning an intervention (5 + 10).Official paper ↗Marking guidance ↗Check tutors for this question →

Needs assessment: types of need and seven steps

  • 2025Earlier Year 12 syllabus versions (papers 2021-2025 in this pack)Written examination Section Three Q3015 marksUsing a new university sonography course responding to ultrasound wait times: describes the purpose of a needs assessment and the type of need, then describes the remaining six steps applied to the issue (3 + 12).Official paper ↗Marking guidance ↗Check tutors for this question →
  • 2024Earlier Year 12 syllabus versions (papers 2021-2025 in this pack)Written examination Section One Q1-2020 marksTwenty multiple-choice items including type of need (dental wait times), interest rates and access, social determinants and depression, norms (homebirth, vaping), obesity table and influenza graph reading, low birth weight risks, social justice principles, facilitation, the PHI rebate income test, food insecurity, aid for gender equality, skills for adversity and classifying a national skin-cancer media campaign.Official paper ↗Marking guidance ↗Check tutors for this question →
  • 2023Earlier Year 12 syllabus versions (papers 2021-2025 in this pack)Written examination Section Three Q2815 marksUsing severe river flooding in a NSW catchment: outlines a type of need for prioritising, then describes the seven needs-assessment steps for the community (1 + 14).Official paper ↗Marking guidance ↗Check tutors for this question →

Ottawa Charter strategies and action areas

Rio Declaration on Social Determinants of Health

Consumer health and healthcare reforms (Units 3 and 4) · 3 mapped questions

Healthcare system reforms: PHI rebate, screening and vaccination, PBS

Comparing health indicators: Australia and developing countries

Also in this topic: Health literacy and health status — question-level mapping in progress; the year table above links every official paper.

Attitudinal and environmental influences: beliefs, attitudes, values and norms (Units 3 and 4) · 3 mapped questions

Conflict between specific-group and majority norms

Government policies and regulations

  • 2025Earlier Year 12 syllabus versions (papers 2021-2025 in this pack)Written examination Section Two Q229 marksUsing WA road safety laws: outlines a belief, a value and an attitude the policies aim to generate, then describes how the policies shape proscriptive, prescriptive and popular norms.Official paper ↗Marking guidance ↗Check tutors for this question →

Proscriptive, prescriptive and popular norms

Also in this topic: Culture and beliefs, attitudes and values towards healthcare · Environmental factors: geographical location and social networks — question-level mapping in progress; the year table above links every official paper.

Self-management and interpersonal skills (Units 3 and 4) · 3 mapped questions

Assertiveness, stress management and resilience

  • 2025Earlier Year 12 syllabus versions (papers 2021-2025 in this pack)Written examination Section Two Q239 marksExplains how traditional gender roles in some cultures may limit access to healthcare in Australia, then describes three course skills young people can use to manage social-media pressure about gender roles.Official paper ↗Marking guidance ↗Check tutors for this question →

Culture and health decision making (organ donation, blood transfusions, childbirth)

  • 2023Earlier Year 12 syllabus versions (papers 2021-2025 in this pack)Written examination Section Two Q219 marksUsing migration data: outlines three language/cultural influences on relationship building with migrant patients, then describes three ways culture affects blood transfusion decisions.Official paper ↗Marking guidance ↗Check tutors for this question →

World events and personal, social and cultural identity

Also in this topic: Language and cultural influences on relationship building · Communication and collaboration skills in health settings — question-level mapping in progress; the year table above links every official paper.

Determinants of health and global challenges (Unit 4) · 3 mapped questions

Social determinants

Environmental determinants

Socioeconomic determinants

Also in this topic: Biomedical determinants · Global and local barriers to addressing social determinants — question-level mapping in progress; the year table above links every official paper.

Global health frameworks: WHO, Australian aid, SDGs and advocacy (Unit 4) · 4 mapped questions

Australia's aid program

  • 2023Earlier Year 12 syllabus versions (papers 2021-2025 in this pack)Written examination Section Two Q2512 marksSummarises how Australia provides aid in education and health and in gender equality (the education and health area was removed from the 2026 syllabus), then describes three barriers to addressing food crises in the Indo-Pacific.Official paper ↗Marking guidance ↗Check tutors for this question →

UN Sustainable Development Goals 2-6

Health promotion advocacy: definition and strategies

Also in this topic: Roles of the World Health Organisation — question-level mapping in progress; the year table above links every official paper.

National Strategic Framework for Chronic Conditions (Unit 4) · 1 mapped question

Objectives of the NSFCC

  • 2025Earlier Year 12 syllabus versions (papers 2021-2025 in this pack)Written examination Section Two Q2112 marksOn First Nations Peoples and chronic conditions: summarises what success in the NSFCC priority-populations objective looks like, demonstrates facilitation and leadership by healthcare workers in disease management planning, and describes three advocacy strategies.Official paper ↗Marking guidance ↗Check tutors for this question →

Also in this topic: Principles of the NSFCC — question-level mapping in progress; the year table above links every official paper.

Health inquiry (Units 3 and 4) · 2 mapped questions

Planning and focus questions

Locating sources and selection criteria

  • 2025Earlier Year 12 syllabus versions (papers 2021-2025 in this pack)Written examination Section Three Q2915 marksOutlines four methods for locating credible sources, then compares two skin-cancer sources (an Australian college and a US agency) on four criteria and justifies the more appropriate one (4 + 11).Official paper ↗Marking guidance ↗Check tutors for this question →

Also in this topic: Trends and patterns in data · Argument, conclusions and presentation — question-level mapping in progress; the year table above links every official paper.

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