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WACE Physics past exams 2020–2025, by year and topic

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ATARMAxxing indexes 12 official SCSA Physics papers from 2020 to 2025, across 2 topics. Every paper opens on the SCSA website.

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Earlier syllabus — check alignment with 2026 course · 2020–2025Current Year 12 syllabus for teaching from 2026; no completed 2026 examination yet · 2026–present

WACE Physics exams by year: official papers & marking guidance

Past exams indexed: 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. Open the official SCSA papers, with marking guidance where available.

YearStudy designOfficial paper(s)Marking guidance
2025 WACE Physics examEarlier syllabus — check alignment with 2026 courseOfficial examination ↗ · Official ratified marking key ↗Marking guidance ↗
2024 WACE Physics examEarlier syllabus — check alignment with 2026 courseOfficial examination ↗ · Official ratified marking key ↗Marking guidance ↗
2023 WACE Physics examEarlier syllabus — check alignment with 2026 courseOfficial examination ↗ · Official ratified marking key ↗Marking guidance ↗
2022 WACE Physics examEarlier syllabus — check alignment with 2026 courseOfficial examination ↗ · Official ratified marking key ↗Marking guidance ↗
2021 WACE Physics examEarlier syllabus — check alignment with 2026 courseOfficial examination ↗ · Official ratified marking key ↗Marking guidance ↗
2020 WACE Physics examEarlier syllabus — check alignment with 2026 courseOfficial examination ↗ · Official ratified marking key ↗Marking guidance ↗

12 official examination documents across 6 years (2020–2025), 6 with marking guidance, published by SCSA. These span more than one study design; the most recent is Current Year 12 syllabus for teaching from 2026; no completed 2026 examination yet. Earlier papers may cover material that has since changed.

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  • Unit 3 — Gravity and relativity — Inquiry skills: measurement, uncertainty and graphs · Static equilibrium and centre of mass · Uniform circular motion · Banked and vertical circular motion · Gravitational fields and potential energy · Projectile motion · Satellites and Kepler's third law · Special relativity foundations · Relativistic time, length and velocity · General-relativity evidence and applications
  • Unit 4 — Electromagnetism and modern physics — Electric fields, force and potential · Magnetic fields and magnetic force · DC motors and torque · Induction, Lenz's law and back emf · Generators, transformers and power transmission · Particle accelerators and relativistic energy-momentum · Electromagnetic waves and interference · Black-body radiation and photons · Photoelectric effect, spectra and Bohr model · Matter waves, particles and cosmology

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