WACE Modern History Practice Exams with Worked Solutions

The 20 practice exams inside the WACE Modern History 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 1220 marks · 8 questions · 4 sections
   • leaders represented in sources
   • reliability of a partisan source
   • Unit 3 turning points
   • Unit 4 international relations
   • historians' interpretations
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2. Practice Exam 2220 marks · 8 questions · 4 sections
   • ideas as causes
   • perspective of the author
   • ideology in Unit 3 electives
   • leaders in Unit 4 electives
   • extent across the whole period
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3. Practice Exam 3220 marks · 8 questions · 4 sections
   • women and minorities
   • peasants and workers
   • usefulness of social sources
   • alliances and blocs
   • continuity and change
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4. Practice Exam 4220 marks · 8 questions · 4 sections
   • economic policy
   • impact on living standards
   • reliability of statistics-based sources
   • ideas since 1945
   • historiographical debate
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5. Practice Exam 5220 marks · 8 questions · 4 sections
   • internal divisions
   • responses to crisis
   • war and its consequences
   • reliability
   • turning points
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6. Practice Exam 6220 marks · 8 questions · 4 sections
   • consolidation of power
   • government policy
   • political parties/regimes
   • changing world order
   • perspectives
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7. Practice Exam 7220 marks · 8 questions · 4 sections
   • cartoons and posters
   • official vs critical views
   • representation of governments
   • international organisations
   • later interpretations
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8. Practice Exam 8220 marks · 8 questions · 4 sections
   • foreign policy
   • Unit 3 external threats
   • Unit 4 individuals
   • bias and motive
   • significance
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9. Practice Exam 9220 marks · 8 questions · 4 sections
   • war and the home front
   • war and revolution
   • turning points since 1945
   • usefulness
   • short- vs long-term consequences
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10. Practice Exam 10220 marks · 8 questions · 4 sections
    • continuity and change
    • economic ties
    • whole-period coverage
    • perspectives
    • counter-arguments
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11. Practice Exam 11220 marks · 8 questions · 4 sections
    • leaders' legacies
    • later interpretations
    • ideas since 1945
    • reliability
    • historiography
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12. Practice Exam 12220 marks · 8 questions · 4 sections
    • nationalism
    • communism
    • tension and détente/engagement/peace
    • perspectives
    • extent judgements
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13. Practice Exam 13220 marks · 8 questions · 4 sections
    • social groups
    • civilian experience
    • causes of conflict
    • usefulness
    • evidence selection
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14. Practice Exam 14220 marks · 8 questions · 4 sections
    • economic policy
    • modernisation
    • alliances
    • security
    • perspectives
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15. Practice Exam 15220 marks · 8 questions · 4 sections
    • internal division
    • dissent and repression
    • leaders for and against change
    • reliability
    • argument balance
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16. Practice Exam 16220 marks · 8 questions · 4 sections
    • seizing and holding power
    • institutions
    • international bodies
    • usefulness
    • interpretation
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17. Practice Exam 17220 marks · 8 questions · 4 sections
    • propaganda
    • aims vs outcomes
    • changing relationships to 2001
    • perspectives
    • judgement
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18. Practice Exam 18220 marks · 8 questions · 4 sections
    • external threats
    • diplomacy
    • individuals since 1945
    • reliability
    • interpretations
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19. Practice Exam 19220 marks · 8 questions · 4 sections
    • war and change
    • mobilisation
    • turning points
    • usefulness
    • counterfactual limits
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20. Practice Exam 20220 marks · 8 questions · 4 sections
    • beginning vs end of period
    • interdependence
    • synthesis across sources
    • perspectives
    • sustained argument
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