Explore Ancient History as a distinct ATAR course. Unit 1 – Ancient societies; Unit 2 – Investigating the Ancient World
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What will I learn?
Unit 1 – Ancient societies
Year 11 courseUnit 2 – Investigating the Ancient World
Year 11 courseUnit 3 – Power and authority
Year 12 courseUnit 4 – Reconstructing the Ancient World
Year 12 courseHow will I be assessed?
Published course / existing guide: Year 11 published assessment types: Examination. Read the table in context for component weights; your school sets individual tasks and dates.
Published course / existing guide: Year 12 published assessment types: Examination. Read the table in context for component weights; your school sets individual tasks and dates.
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Does it scale up or down?
Ancient History, 2025. TISC’s mean scaled scores summarise all students with a scaled score in the published course. The mean describes a cohort and gives no individual raw-to-scaled conversion. A scaled mean alone cannot establish whether this subject scaled up or down. Historical cohort data cannot predict your result or a future scaling direction.
| Mean scaled score | Students |
|---|---|
| 64.2 | 68 |
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Sources, versions and verification dates
Profile source metadata last checked: 2026-11-13. A source check is not an endorsement by the authority or confirmation that a future course version is unchanged.
- Ancient History ATAR: Year 11 syllabus — SCSA; 2026-11-13. Primary PDF course identity and available effective date checked against the observed source link. PDF ATAR Year 11 Syllabus - For teaching from 2027 (867.8 KB) opens in new window. Learning summaries are our paraphrases; assessment type names do not establish a school's task schedule or weighting. © School Curriculum and Standards Authority, CC BY 4.0; see the document notice.
- Ancient History ATAR: Year 11 syllabus, page 3 — SCSA; 2026-11-13. Primary PDF course identity and available effective date checked against the observed source link. PDF ATAR Year 11 Syllabus - For teaching from 2027 (867.8 KB) opens in new window. Learning summaries are our paraphrases; assessment type names do not establish a school's task schedule or weighting. © School Curriculum and Standards Authority, CC BY 4.0; see the document notice.
- Ancient History ATAR: Year 11 syllabus, page 36 — SCSA; 2026-11-13. Primary PDF course identity and available effective date checked against the observed source link. PDF ATAR Year 11 Syllabus - For teaching from 2027 (867.8 KB) opens in new window. Learning summaries are our paraphrases; assessment type names do not establish a school's task schedule or weighting. © School Curriculum and Standards Authority, CC BY 4.0; see the document notice.
- Ancient History ATAR: Year 12 syllabus — SCSA; 2026-11-13. Primary PDF course identity and available effective date checked against the observed source link. PDF ATAR Year 12 Syllabus - For teaching from 2027 (797.0 KB) opens in new window. Learning summaries are our paraphrases; assessment type names do not establish a school's task schedule or weighting. © School Curriculum and Standards Authority, CC BY 4.0; see the document notice.
- Ancient History ATAR: Year 12 syllabus, page 3 — SCSA; 2026-11-13. Primary PDF course identity and available effective date checked against the observed source link. PDF ATAR Year 12 Syllabus - For teaching from 2027 (797.0 KB) opens in new window. Learning summaries are our paraphrases; assessment type names do not establish a school's task schedule or weighting. © School Curriculum and Standards Authority, CC BY 4.0; see the document notice.
- Ancient History ATAR: Year 12 syllabus, page 28 — SCSA; 2026-11-13. Primary PDF course identity and available effective date checked against the observed source link. PDF ATAR Year 12 Syllabus - For teaching from 2027 (797.0 KB) opens in new window. Learning summaries are our paraphrases; assessment type names do not establish a school's task schedule or weighting. © School Curriculum and Standards Authority, CC BY 4.0; see the document notice.
- TISC 2025 scaling report: Ancient History — TISC; 2026-11-12. TISC’s mean scaled scores summarise all students with a scaled score in the published course. The mean describes a cohort and gives no individual raw-to-scaled conversion.